Mustonen was born in
Tallinn on 1 September 1953. He graduated from the
Tallinn Music High School in 1972 and five years later both he and
Endel Lippus graduated from the
Tallinn State Conservatory. Later on, he studied in Austria and the Netherlands and then became a music specialist in his native Estonia and overseas. When he became a conductor he played in such orchestras as
Riga's chamber orchestra
Sinfonietta Riga and
Moscow-based
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra,
Philharmonic Orchestra and
Russian National Orchestra. He also was a conductor for the
Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and was in cooperation with
Lithuanian and
Latvian Philharmonic Orchestras. In Estonia he conducted with the
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra along with
Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra. Outside of the
Soviet Union he participated in the
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and many choirs in
Germany,
Sweden and the
Netherlands. ==References==