THE IRINI ENSEMBLE IS RECRUITING!

 

The Irini Ensemble is growing and for its future projects is looking for :

 

Basses 1 & 2 **
Contralto / countertenor *
Mezzo-soprano *
Tenor

Prerequisites

Experience in Early Music not required but sound vibrato control required.
Experience in 1 per voice or chamber choir strongly recommended

Direct debit 

- France +
-Île de France or -Southern Region +++
-Europe

 

DATE OF THE HEARINGS

Auditions in person: 14 or 16 December 2021 in Paris (location specified at the time of selection)

 

CLOSING OF APPLICATIONS

30 November 2021 23:59

Notification for hearings by 2 December 2021

 

How to apply :

Pre-selection on file:
By mail: auditions@humanumestproduction.com

Biography
2 videos:
1 Excerpt from sacred or secular repertoire Baroque (17th century maximum) or Renaissance or Medieval (Italian, Latin or French)
1 French melody

OR

2 Extracts from the ancient sacred or secular repertoire (Middle Ages - 17th century) (Italian, Latin or French)

Bonus : traditional repertoire / World music

Applications stating their interest in the work of the Irini Ensemble will be appreciated.

Please specify the desired audition date: 14 or 16 December 2021.

A first selection will be made on the basis of applications, and the artists selected for the auditions will be contacted by 2 December atthe latest.

Face-to-face hearing:
Details to be determined (repertoire + work session)

 

THE IRINI ENSEMBLE

The Ensemble Irini, founded in 2015 by Lila Hajosi, is a polymorphous vocal ensemble that favours a capella work, and is committed to creating "liberating links" between times and musical areas, ranging from the European Middle Ages to Byzantine music, to contemporary creation, and from the shores of the Fertile Crescent to the court of Bavaria, via Constantinople.
The ensemble was awarded a prize at the Cité de la Voix in Vézelay, and has been invited to prestigious festivals such as the Festival de Radiofrance Montpellier, Arts Sacrés de Perpignan et Evron, Voix et Routes Romanes, Sinfonia en Périgord, and those of Sylvanès Abbey and Mont St Michel. Her first programme as a female trio, "Maria Nostra", gave birth in 2018 to a first eponymous disc recorded at the Cité de la Voix for the empreinte digitale, which was awarded a "Choc" by Classica magazine. In 2018 the composer Zad Moultaka created Quel mystère que tu aies un corps for Irini (commissioned by the Chaillol Festival) and Casus Ade in 2022.

Committed to the promotion of early music and little-represented repertoires, the Irini ensemble has turned to Christian Mysticism for its second opus, to be released on 15 October 2021 by Paraty, distributed by Pias Harmonia Mundi, in co-production with the Abbaye de Noirlac, ADAMI, the Région Sud, DRAC PACA, Arsud and the Commune des Baux de Provence.
"O Sidera" explores the figures of the Sibyls, the Cherubim, the Mystery of the Incarnation, around the divine "Great Unknowable", where reason is lost and where spirit and music take the paths of dreams. This mixed quintet programme puts Roland de Lassus' Sibylline Prophecies into perspective with extracts from the Byzantine repertoire.
In 2021-22 the Irini Ensemble will perform at the Chaillol Festival, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Abbaye de Noirlac, among others.
The third programme of the Irini Ensemble is being created for 2022 and is entitled "Sacred Spring - Living, Dying, Being Born Again". It will take the artistic and creative impetus of the young conductor Lila Hajosi's group further, towards a mixed a cappella octet. This cathartic programme, an echo of the great unrest of recent years, will bring together some of the most beautiful works for 4 and 6 voices by Heinrich Isaac, the composer of Lorenzo the Magnificent and later of the Emperor Maximilian, with extracts from the Georgian Orthodox liturgy, with its very particular sound and writing. Sacred Spring" thus turns, with the hope of finding in it a reflection of our time, towards the twilight of the 15th century, cradle of terrible collapses and yet, prelude to what the World will call a few centuries later the "Renaissance".

www.ensembleirini.com