Vladimir Alumäe was an Estonian and Soviet musician, violinist, and music educator. He was born on 6 April 1917 in Tallinn and died there in 1979.
In 1937, Alumäe graduated from the Tallinn Conservatory, where he studied with Johann Paulsen. He subsequently spent a year in London furthering his training with Carl Flesch.
From 1937 he served as an assistant at the Tallinn Conservatory, becoming a teacher in 1939 and a professor in 1945. He taught at the institution from 1938 until the end of his life. Alumäe was director of the Tallinn Conservatory in 1941, from 1944 to 1948, and from 1964 to 1970.
Between 1942 and 1944, he worked as a soloist with the Estonian State Artistic Ensemble in Yaroslavl. On 20 July 1946, he appeared at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic during the All-Union Review of Young Conductors, performing Eduard Tubin's Violin Concerto under the baton of the Tallinn competitor Roman Matsov.
Alumäe gave the first performances of a number of works by Estonian composers, including Heino Eller, Eugen Kapp, and Eduard Tubin. He toured abroad, giving concerts in Finland, Sweden, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia. In 1966, he published the book On Interpretation in Tallinn.
In 1970, Alumäe served on the jury of the Fourth International Tchaikovsky Competition. He was named People's Artist of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1957.