Easter 2025 Editorial
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to see and hear one of the world’s greatest living conductors and Sibelius interpreters, Okko Kamu, in rehearsals and concert with the Jyväskylä Sinfonia in Finland. Okko Kamu was conducting Si...
Read more...
Easter time music
Listen to excerpts from Händel's Messiah and Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ with Ensemble XXI, Conductor Lygia O'Riordan by scrolling down the list. Otherwise, wait until the next section plays au...
Read more...
The Flow of Music
The Flow of Music exhibition in Riihisaari museum Savonlinna, Finland 4.4.–1.6.2025 The Flow of Music exhibition recounts with pictures, sounds and words, violinist Pia Siirala's field trips trips to the lands of the Chukchi in Chuko...
Read more...
Public Defence of the Artistic Doctoral degree of Pia Siirala
DOCTORAL DEFENCE Friday 7.6.2024 at 12:00, Music House, Camerata Hall, Helsinki More information The title of the Doctoral degree: Aspects of hearing the music of the indigenous peoples in north-eastern Siberia. The title of t...
Read more...
Concert 15.9.2023 in Helsinki, Finland
Polar Voices – Musical Encounters with the Songs of the Indigenous Peoples of the northeastern Siberia Friday 15.9.2023 at 19:00 Temppeliaukio Church Helsinki, Finland Ensemble XXI Kosovo Conductor Lygia O’R...
Read more...
Konsertti 14.9.2023, Pukkilan kirkko
Konsertti Pukkilan kirkko, Pukkilla / Concert in Pukkila Church, Pukkila, Finland 14.9.2023 klo 18:00 Polar Voices Musiikillisia kohtaamisia koillisen Siperian alkuperäis&sh...
Read more...
Ensemble XXI, founded in 1989, became the first permanent East-West orchestra in Russia. It was founded by Irish Conductor, Lygia O’Riordan and Finnish Violinist, Pia Siirala after completing their studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Professors Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Zorya Shikhmurzayeva respectively.
Ensemble XXI in its foundation, membership and activity is living proof of the capacity of music to bring together people of diverse backgrounds and origins on a plane of understanding which recognises no borders.
Since 2022 Ensemble XXI has continued its activities in Kosovo.
