Audite Chamber Choir
Biography Audite Chamber Choir
Audite Chamber Choir
is a Helsinki-based chamber choir whose singers comprise music professionals, music students, and experienced choral vocalists. Conductor Jani Sivén founded the ensemble in 1992 and led it with distinction until 2025, when Tatu Erkkilä assumed the role of the choir’s new artistic director. Audite is renowned for its high-profile performances and stylistic versatility, and in addition to its active concert presence in Finland, the choir has toured extensively on international stages.
Jani Sivén
is an acclaimed conductor, composer and pedagogue. Since 2015, he has served as a full-time lecturer in choral conducting at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Sivén has worked with over 50 choirs and orchestras and served previously as the artistic director of the Chamber Choir Audite, the Tampere Philharmonic Choir, the Sinfonietta SOI Orchestra, the Helsinki Concordia Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Choral Institute, the Finnish Boys’ Choir, and the Galante Youth Choir. He has also worked as chorus master of the Helsinki Music Centre Choir. As a guest conductor, Sivén has collaborated with, among others, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, the chamber choirs of Finnish and Latvian radios, and the Finnish National Opera Choir.
In addition to his work at the Sibelius Academy, he has served as a lecturer in orchestral and choral conducting at the Helsinki Conservatoire and as an instructor in the choral and ensemble conducting program at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. He has also served as a visiting teacher both in Finland and abroad.
His composition catalogue contains such works as the chamber operas Pyhä Birgitta (Saint Birgitta), Abelard & Héloïse and Troijan naiset, Metropolin tuulet (Winds of the Metropolis), a cantata commissioned for the centenary of the Nation of Southern Finland student organisation, and Fenestra Finnorum, a work commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Finnish Institute in Rome. Sivén was awarded the conductor’s prize at the Tampere Vocal Music Festival chorus review in 1999 and was named Choral Conductor of the year by The Finnish Choral Directors’ Association (FCDA) in 2000.
