Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes (b. 1977) is an Estonian composer who grew up in the border towns of Narva and Ivangorod. In 1995, she began studying music theory and composition at the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School under Toivo Tulev. She continued her studies in composition at the Estonian Academy of Music in 1999, initially with Jaan Rääts and later with Helena Tulve, under whose guidance she also completed her Master’s degree. She has furthered her skills at various summer courses, including the Bartók Festival and Seminar in Szombathely, Hungary (2002), the International Workshop for Young Composers in Dundaga, Latvia (2002), and the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music in Germany (2006 and 2008). From 2003 to 2004, she studied at the G. Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, Italy, with Fabio Nieder. Since 2023, she has been a doctoral student at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes has received numerous accolades: Made of Hot Glass took third place in the young composers’ category at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (2004); her works Disintegration Chain (2011, Vienna) and Lighting a Fire (2018, Budapest) were both selected among the top ten works in the general category at the Rostrum. She was awarded the Kranichstein Music Prize at the Darmstadt Summer Courses (2006), the Heino Eller Music Prize in 2008, and the Estonian Music Days Prize in 2004, 2005, 2009, and 2011. In 2015 and 2024, she received the Annual Prize of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, and in 2022, she was honored with the Lepo Sumera Composition Prize. Tatjana participated in the MIM-project Estonian History: A Nation Born of Shock (2018), a collaboration between the Estonian National Opera and Kanuti Gildi SAAL, and her music theatre production etching.ashes premiered at the 2022 Estonian Music Days. From 2008 to 2022, Tatjana taught at the Georg Ots School, and since the autumn of 2022, she has taught composition and music theory at MUBA (Tallinn School of Music and Ballet). In collaboration with Helena Tulve, she has organized “sound object” masterclasses focused on restoring and developing the faculty of listening.