Sjaella

Due to popular demand, we have added an additional performance date on Saturday 19 July at 2.30pm.

The Leipzig-based vocal sextet Sjaella returns to UKARIA with a program exploring the age-old human dilemma between the head and the heart, including music by Eleonora d’Este, Nicolas Gombert, Hildegard von Bingen, Heinrich Schütz, Henry Purcell, Paola Prestini, David Lang, Laura Marconi, and a new work by Australian composer Alice Chance. This selection of early and contemporary music illustrates the tension between intellect and emotion: a plea for the truthfulness of thinking and feeling.

These six female voices, perfectly blended, ‘radiated a special kind of warmth... and held the audience spellbound’ (The Advertiser). They began singing together as children and have been performing as Sjaella – named after a Scandinavian word meaning ‘soul’ – since 2005. Their appearances in renowned music festivals and international concert tours are testament to their reputation as one of the most outstanding and captivating a cappella ensembles of our time.

Sjaella feeds the hearts and stimulates the minds of their listeners, as they ask: ‘How can we listen to both inner poles of reason and emotion, and learn to trust them?’

Viola Blache
Soprano

Marie Fenske
Soprano

Franziska Eberhardt
Soprano

Marie Charlotte Seidel
Mezzo Soprano

Luisa Klose
Alto

Helene Erben
Alto