Ants Soots
Illustration — Ants Soots Ants Soots (19 February 1956 – 27 December 2025) was an Estonian conductor.
Ants Soots
Ave Maria Mõistlik · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1956 · Rõngu.
- Died
- 2025
- Nationality
- Estonia
- Occupation
- choir director · music educator · music teacher · musician
- Education
- Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
- Honours
- Order of the White Star and 5th Class · Grammy Awards
- Languages
- Estonian
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Ants Soots Ants Soots (19 February 1956 – 27 December 2025) was an Estonian conductor.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
Ants Soots (1956–2025) was an Estonian choir director, music educator and music teacher, among other activities. The choir director was born in Rõngu. Ants Soots studied at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Languages used include Estonian. The choir director received Grammy Awards and Order of the White Star, 5th Class.
Composed from admitted, traceable facts · 01 October 2026
VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Ants Soots. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q16405166 · wikipedia · Ants Soots
In this article
Life and career
Life and career
Soots was born in Rõngu on 19 February 1956. In 1983 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory. From 1982 to 1990 he was a singer of Mixed Choir of Eesti Televisioon and Eesti Raadio. He directed the following choirs: Forestalia (1976–1991), Academic Male Choir of Tallinn University of Technology (1981–1986), Male Choir of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1986–1991), Female Choir of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990–1991) and Estonian National Male Choir (1991–2005). He worked as a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Music since 1988, and as a professor since 2004.
Death
Death
Soots died on 27 December 2025, at the age of 69.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1956
Ants Soots born at Rõngu.
2025
Ants Soots died.
Awards
• 2003: Order of the White Star, V class. • 2004: Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Paavo Järvi (conductor), Tiia-Ester Loitme and Ants Soots (chorus masters) for Sibelius: Cantatas performed by the Ellerhein Girls' Choir, the Estonian National Male Choir and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Distinctions
1- Order of the White StarTerminology
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
Ants Soots is recorded as having received Order of the White Star, 5th Class and Grammy Awards. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
Within the Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 19 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Music memorabilia
42,307 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Antony GennPerson
- Antony HopkinsPerson
- Antony PittsPerson
- Antra RecordsOrganisation
- Antti AnatomyPerson
- Antti SarpilaPerson
- Antti SiiralaPerson
- Antun DobronićPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Ants Soots?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.