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Marje is a graduate of Tallinn Music High School, Tallinn State Conservatory and St Petersburg Conservatory, where she received her PhD in Music. She has been working at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre since 1973, as a lecturer in the Chamber Music Department from 1981, associate professor from 1988, the head of the Chamber Music Department from 1991, and professor of chamber music from 1998. She was vice-rector for international relations in 1993–2012, from 2015 has been the head of the chamber music studies, and since 2018 she has been the deputy chairman of the doctoral council of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater.
Marje Lohuaru has been actively performing, mostly in chamber music ensembles and as an accompanist to singers, in countries including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and Canada, working with musicians such as Urve Tauts, Kaie Konrad, Pille Lill, Riina Airenne, Ulrika Kristian, Urmas Vulp, Peeter Paemurru, Jelena Komarova, Marianne Boettcher, Laure Delcampe, Ruta Lipinaitytė, Oliver Kuusik, Kädy Plaas-Kala, Monika-Evelin Liiv, Geraldine Casanova, Kadi Jürgens, among the others. She has given recitals in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Canada, USA, France, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. She has also recorded several albums, been on the juries of several international competitions, and given masterclasses throughout Europe.
She was a member of the representative board of ELIA (European League of Institutes of Arts) in 2006-2012, a member of the ELIA executive board in 2005-2008, a board member of the European Chamber Music Teachers' Association from 2013, served as a board member of the Estonian Music Council in 1995-2005 and took the same position at the Estonian Cultural Endowment in 2011-2015, also at the Music Estonia in 2014–2017. She was the board chairperson of the Association of Estonian Professional Musicians in 2002-2008 and of the Estonian Music Development Centre in 2009-2014. From 2015, she is a managing director of the Estonian Foundation of Musical Instruments.
Marje Lohuaru has been a chairperson of the European Chamber Music Teachers' Association since 2016. In 2018, he was elected president of the Alumni Association of Tallinn Music High School. From 2019, Marje Lohuaru is a board member of the Estonian Cultural Endowment, and a chairperson of the Estonian Music Endowment. For years she has been asked to work as an expert evaluating the higher education and culture projects at the European Union institutions in Brussels. She has been awarded the Estonian Republic’s V Class Order of the White Star, the Estonian Cultural Endowment Music Award, and the Estonian Music Council Award.
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