[MXD Networking @ SPOT 2026] Meet Taavi Esperk

In the weeks leading up to SPOT Festival 2026, we’ll be introducing you to the international industry professionals who have been invited to this year’s festival by Danish artists and music companies through MXD’s new invitation pool.

Here, you can meet:

Name: Taavi Esperk
Company: Tallinn Music Week
Title: Head of Music Programme and Production
Based in: Tallinn, EE

Can you tell us a bit about the company’s history and its roster?

Tomorrow’s Music, Arts and Ideas

Tallinn Music Week (TMW) is one of the most acclaimed new music and city culture festivals and key networking events for music and creative industry professionals across Europe, held annually in the capital of Estonia, Tallinn since 2009. The festival consists of three main programme parts: music festival, conference and city festival.

The music festival presents multi-genre acts from all over Europe and beyond in Tallinn’s best concert venues. TMW’s music programme is renowned for its bold mix of unique talent across Europe and beyond with diverse genres from experimental electronica to classical represented. The line-up (2026 – 203 artists from 37 countries), selected from applications by a broad-based team of Estonian and international curators, is presented to an audience of around 20,000 festivalgoers and 1,000 industry professionals from around the globe.

What was the moment you decided you wanted to work with music?

Age 7. A private punk music gig for grannies which led us to the ban on performing.

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