Sjaella (eng)
In 2005, a journey of discovery began that has since taken the artists all over the world. Sjaella has been firmly established on the universal vocal music scene for years, performing at renowned festivals – Early Music Festival Utrecht, Rheingau Musik Festival, Ruhrfestspiele, Mosel Musikfestival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, Festival of Voices Tasmania, Musikfest ION – and has been awarded first prizes in numerous competitions, such as the 2015 Tampereen Sävel festival in Finland.
Concert tours have taken the ensemble to renowned concert halls such as Mozarteum Salzburg, Vienna Musikverein, Konzerthaus Vienna, Palace of Arts Budapest and Flagey Brussels as well as to Great Britain, Luxembourg, Finland, Norway, the Czech Republic, Poland, Azerbaijan, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, the USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa and Australia. Sjaella’s repertoire gains its versatility from a vocal line-up that is underrepresented in the music world. They combine new works with early music, devote themselves to folk tunes from various cultures and are also drawn to jazz. The album “Preisung” as well as “Meridiane NORD” and “Origins” were nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award and “Meridiane NORD” received the CARA Award for Best Folk/World Album in the USA. The album “Origins”, released on the Outhere Music label, was highly praised by the French newspaper Le Monde.
In the 2023/24 season, Sjaella was an integral part of the ballet production “Giselle” at the Leipzig Opera and worked closely with the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
In 2025, Sjaella spent four weeks in New York City, where the chamber opera “Primero sueño” was performed several times at the MET Museum. As part of the 2025 Australian tour, Sjaella gave a total of 11 concerts, two of them at the Sydney Opera House.
