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04 November 2025 Tallinn (EE) - Salme Kultuurikeskus

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© Hanna Bender

I played a concert at Salme Kultuurikeskus in Tallinn (Estonia) on the 4th of November 2025 — if you were there it would mean a lot to me if you would share your impressions and thoughts and maybe even some pictures with me!

Your thoughts, memories and pictures

You have indeed created a new vocabulary. It doesn't even feel like you're playing piano; it's like something else, a new instrument (or several). Reading what others write about your concert only confirms my certainty about that. You can evoke emotions with your songs that seem buried deep inside, like those from teenage years, even 30 years later. It's as if my feelings suddenly have words, without a single letter. Sorry if I bother you with my babbling; I don't even know how you recover from all the energy you give away night after night to the public.

— Paula

Thanks for the concert

As in the heading

— Kris

Wonderful organic event

— Enda

I followed the concert, with my ears and my whole body, walked along all the way through the path and the space, it was no longer in this time but everywhere, where I’ve wanted to go, to rush back into childhood and then beyond the borders, but just enough to land back in myself.

— Mari

I think I just witnessed pure art born in the moment. One piece was so powerful, yet warm that it made me cry over my recent loss. You create an emotion with a couple of sounds and a full life cycle within five minutes. The concert was a journey and you led us through this magical, amazingly crazy tunnel. Thank you!

— Zina

Chaos and Cosmos

Dear Martin! I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the concert. There was so much I wanted to tell you in person, but I'll write it all down here. Today, I experienced an incredible range of emotions listening to your performance, from goosebumps to tears of joy at hearing this beautiful music here and now. Your music is somehow dear to me, penetrating every cell of my body and vibrating my heart. Thank you for being in this world.❤️ I'm now reliving the joy of playing the piano after 21 years of silence, since I graduated from music school and no longer had any desire to sit down at the instrument, even though I adore music and can't live without it. Today, after your advice to me about simply starting with one note, something inside me calmed, an internal switch flipped, and here I am, sitting at night, recording fragments of melodies that come to mind on my phone. I'm in shock at what's happening... Thank you so much for the inspiration and energy! I'm looking forward to your new albums and live concerts. P.S. I hope you'll revive your project of handcrafting wooden tree figurines. I'd love to order something as a souvenir. P.P.S. I believe you'll come to St. Petersburg again someday to perform and let out all your inner demons😈

— Adelina

Thank you for yesterday Martin! It was incredible ! I saw a genius for the first time! What you do turns the soul inside out! 🖤

— Дарья Павлова

Danke

...daß du mir meine Freunde einmal im Jahr herankarrst :) Und daß deine Musik hier sehr passt ist deutlich. Bitte gerne mit Regelmäßigkeit.

— Andi
— Hanna Bender

Thank you for visiting Estonia again. We enjoyed every second – everyone said that time flew by so quickly. My colleagues are now your new fans. I don't know if Martin himself will respond here, but it was great to see you again yesterday and made "knuckles".

— Kristjan

I came to your concert without really knowing what to expect, only that it might feel like a calm walk through a forest, with the soft colors of autumn around. Instead, I got sucker-punched into space, and I wasn’t the only one. I’ve never felt a whole room in such a collective state of awe and confusion (in the best possible way). Maybe it’s because you built everything right there in front of us, keeping us suspended between anticipation and surprise. What I’m trying to say is, you managed to wake us up, in a time when maybe we’d rather stay asleep. It was almost funny hearing grown men and women around me whispering “ooh” and “wow” like children discovering something for the first time. So, before this gets too long, I’ll just say: thank you for making us feel, really feel something. Please keep doing what you do, and keep us awake.🙏

— Ann

Hr

Danke, Maestro! Dass war... unvergesslich... Hoffen uns schon bald in Tallinn wiedersehen! Sie sind immer herzlich willkommen und erwartet!

— Aleks