[3] Elmo Tiisvald has attended master courses with John Eliot Gardiner and Helmuth Rilling at the Stuttgart Bach Academy and participated in several masterclasses with Jorma Panula, Neeme Järvi and Sylvain Cambreling.
[2] In 1995, Tiisvald started his work as the assistant conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Estonian NO and a chief chorus master at the same opera company (1998 – 2009).
He has worked for the second time from 2013 to 2021, chief chorus master of Estonian NO,[5] while continuing to work as a lecturer in the faculty of conducting and the artistic director and conductor of Opera Studio at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
[citation needed] Currently, Elmo Tiisvald works as a lecturer in the conducting department and opera studio of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Elmo Tiisvald he founded Nissi Church Music Festival in 2021 and he is its artistic director today.