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 

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An excerpt from Lygia O'Riordan's Easter 2025 Editorial: "... One of our musicians, Nadezhda Kuzmina discovered a video that had been made by her husband, the cellist Alexei Danilenko, at a complete performance of Messiah some years ago, the existence of which we knew nothing about. Nadezhda has been working on it to restore it. This Easter we are releasing some excerpts from the performance with a Moscow Children’s choir and the Men’s Ensemble of Helsinki Cathedral’s choir, Cantores Minores."

HAPPY EASTER!

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 Sibelius’s Second Symph... [more]

The Flow of Music

The Flow of Music exhibition in Riihisaari museum Savonlinna, Finland 4.4.–1.6.2025 ... [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]

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’Riordan ... [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 al­ku­pe­räis­kan&s... [more]

Concerts in Kosovo

8.9.2023 19:00 "Prenk Jakova" School of music, Gjakova / "Prenk Jakova" Shkolla e muzikes  9.9.2023, 19:30 The National library of Kosova "Pjeter Bgdani", Prishtina / Biblioteka Kombetare e Kosoves Ensemble XXI Koso... [more]

Conductor's Blog

04.08.2023 I'd like to start this first Conductor's Blog with an environmental theme that leads to a cultural theme.  Our work with Ensemble XXI is so intertwined with our musical work in the Arctic, where year on year the environmental changes are so ap... [more]