20-year-old Sven Sander Šestakov (pianist & composer) participated in national and international competitions - in 2014, he won 3rd place at the 3rd International Music Competition in Stockholm, and in 2015 in the piano performance with Gerda Klemm, he participated in the XIII International Music Competition in Padua, Italy. In 2016, he won 2nd prize at the VIII Estonian Young Pianists Competition. He is a member of Trio A-312.

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Except for his career as a pianist, has been working as a flute class concertmaster at the Jõgeva Music School since the autumn of 2016 and is also a member of Rene Eespere's composition class at EAMT. In the field of composition, the achievements are the final with the piano song "The Guide to Darkness" in the competition "Young Composer 2017", the main prize at the Young Composers Competition of Young Piano Competition "Lustlik piano 2017". Sven Sander is a member of the Tartu contemporary music organization TaHe, founded in 2017.