Urve Uusberg (born Urve Piho; 5 January 1953)
is an
Estonia
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n conductor and psychologist who founded and conducted the choir studio Riinimanda.
Uusberg was born in
Tartu. She graduated from the
Tallinn Pedagogical Institute
Tallinn University (TLU; et, Tallinna Ülikool, ''TLÜ'') is a public research university in Estonia. Located in the centre of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn University is one of the three largest institutions of higher education ...
with a degree in choir conducting in 1975 and from the
Tartu State University with a degree in psychology in 1983. In 2004, she defended her master's degree in psychology at the University of Tartu. Shas has also trained as a psychotherapist at the Estonian-Danish Gestalt Institute.
In 2008, she was
Estonian Volunteer of the Year.
[The 2008 Volunteer of Te Year award ceremony]
(ETV
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program archive) In 2019, she joined the
Order of the White Star, V class.
References
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Living people
1953 births
Estonian conductors (music)
Estonian psychologists
People from Tartu
Tallinn University alumni
University of Tartu alumni