Mingo Rajandi is a composer, double bass player, band leader, recording artist, and initiator of interdisciplinary projects that cross genre boundaries, experiment with different art forms and seek to find common ground between notated compositions and improvisation.
Regularly commissioned, her interdisciplinary works for ensembles, soloists and theatrical productions, draw inspiration from socially critical texts and poetry, from both the classics as well as contemporary authors. Recent works include Lady Sapiens (2025, a co-commission from HA concerts in Belgium, hcmf// in the UK, and Jazzkaar in Estonia), Elajannad / Beastesses (2023, a theatre work featuring Mingo’s music that was nominated at Estonian Theatre Awards), The Strange Mirror (2021, a theatre work featuring Mingo’s music and her as a performer), Double Bass (2020, commissioned by Estonian Drama Theatre), and Creating Gods (2018, an interdisciplinary stage production commissioned by Arvo Pärt Days).
Other notable works include Werewolves (2025, a suite composed for her ensemble that was nominated at Estonian Music Awards), Nösperi Nönni Natuke (2025, a musical for children, commissioned by Endla theatre), My river runs to thee (2024, commissioned by Ensemble Una Corda), Tagahoovis (2024, commissioned by Palamuse Music Festival), Matter & Scatter (2023, commissioned by Martin Kuuskmann), The Mad Song (2020, commissioned by Estonian Music Days), Trees Talk (2019, a bassoon concerto for the Grammy-nominated bassoon player Martin Kuuskmann, commissioned by Estonian Music Days in Toronto), Messiah (2019, a new version of Händel’s oratorio commissioned by Veronika Portsmuth’s choir), Erkki-Sven Tüür & Lepo Sumera Rewrite (2019, commissioned by Jazzkaar) and Lingua Franca (2017, an interdisciplinary theatre work commissioned by Moon Management).
