Ensemble XXI

Pia Siirala Portfolio

COMPOSITIONS

Nivkh Themes (2004) for violin, viola, violoncello and double bass

Ulita’s Walk for violin solo (2009)

Asikongaun – 11 Moments (2017) for violin, kantele and 5-string kantele

Sound answers Voice (2018) for violin, accordion, 3 organs and recordings

Seeking the Personal Song (2021) for violin solo

The Flow of Music Multimedia exhibition (2022)

Ulita’s Walk for string orchestra (2023)

Polar Voices for string orchestra (2022)

Three Clarinets (2022)

DISCOGRAPHY

Seeking the Personal Song (SRCD-1027) (2022)

Sound answers voice (FIENG25001) (2025) Ensemblegram

Ulita & Asikongaun (FIENG25002) (2025) Ensemblegram

Polar Voices & Ulita's Walk (FIENG25003) (2025) Ensemblegram

Excerpts from recordings as Concert Master of Ensemble XXI, Conductor Lygia O’Riordan.

Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète, Variation D’Apollon
Bloch: Concerto Grosso No.1 for strings and piano obligato Partorale
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht op.4, excerpt

Excerpts from recordigs as Concert Master of Ensemble XXI , Conductor Lygia O'Riordan

PUBLICATIONS

2025 Tšuktšien musiikin tajunnanvirtaa: Musiikin molekyylit poromies Etiljanin laulannassa. Etnomusikologian Vuosikirja, Vol 37, 10–52 https://doi.org/10.23985/evk.164163

2024 Doctoral Thesis Kuulokulmia tšuktšien henkilölauluun – säveltämällä kuuleminen taiteellisen tutkimuksen menetelmänä /Aspects of hearing the Chukchi Personal Song – Hearing through composing as an artistic research method. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-329-359-5

2024 The audiovisual material of the PhD. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2043895/2697410

2024 Koillisen Siperian tšuktšien henkilölaulu musiikillisen ajattelun käännekohtana (Lectio praecursoria), Trio Vol 13 Nro 2 (2024) https://doi.org/10.37453/tj.149005

AUDIOVSUAL MATERIAL, PODCASTS AND BLOGS

Journey to the Nivkh people of Sakhalin (2008)