Composer, performance artist, writer, critic, model, ECU member since 2024Born on 13.05.2000
Gregor Kulla is a composer, performance artist, writer, critic and model born in Põlva, Estonia. They majored in composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater (cum laude), and in oboe and composition at the Heino Eller Music School. They studied sustainable art creation at the EU School of Participation 2021 in Novi Sad, Serbia, and have trained with several prestigious composers, including Chaya Czernowin (US/Israel), Federico Favali (Italy), Slavomir Horinka (Czech Republic), amongst others. Kulla received the honorary title of Tartu Noor Kultuurikandja in 2020 and, in 2021, became a laureate of the cultural newspaper Sirp. They are a recipient of the annual prize of the literary magazine Värske Rõhk, the Esimese Sammu literary award and an Erkki-Sven Tüür Foundation scholarship. Their work deals with gender studies, feminism, minority and queer cultures, drag culture and Eastern philosophies. His works deal with something seemingly unchanging, which preserves itself only through constant change. Kulla’s work “brook” (2023) has been described by Simon Cummings as follows: “Nothing was still: little taps, trills and tremolos, with occasional plunks that in this rarified context sounded almost like great boulders falling from the sky, in the process begging the question of how fragile this world actually was. […] At no point did Kulla break the spell, from start to end we are immersed in pure magic.” Gregor Kulla is the host of the IDA radio show “(new) music w/ kulla”.
Additional information and links:
https://soundcloud.com/guregooru
https://mida.bandcamp.com/album/old-piano
https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Kulla
https://idaidaida.net/shows/new-music-w-kulla