Ensemble Irini

Initially a musicologist and opera singer specialising in early music, it was thanks to the Ensemble Irini, which she founded in 2014, that Lila Hajosi embarked on a career as a choir conductor in 2021 and will soon be conducting an orchestra. The Ensemble Irini has enabled her to establish herself as an artistic director through the programmes she creates and conducts. She trained from 2012-13 at the Conservatories of Aix-en-Provence (Prix Jeune Espoir Dussurget) and Marseille (Premier Prix d'Art Lyrique) in singing, early music, theatre, opera and chamber music, then at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (2018-2021), where she was a scholarship holder. 

She holds a degree in Medieval Musicology from the University of Montpellier. Even before beginning her musical studies, she discovered a passion for conducting. In 2011, while singing in the amateur choir serving Roland Hayrabédian's class in Marseille, she was fascinated by the finesse and depth of the conductor's work and secretly gleaned valuable lessons from the lessons she attended. 

This passion, complemented by her studies and enriched by the lessons learned from her singing career with conductors such as Marc Korovitch, Lluis Vilamajó and Jordi Savall, and nourished by encounters such as those with Teodor Currentzis in masterclasses, ultimately became her vocation. Since September 2021, she has been training with conductor Sergio Monterisi.

Following Maria Nostra, Ensemble Irini's first album released in 2018 on the Empreinte Digitale label (Choc de Classica), Lila Hajosi created O Sidera, whose critically acclaimed album released in 2021 will be her first opus as a conductor. Lila Hajosi and the Ensemble Irini have collaborated twice with composer Zad Moultaka. The young conductor and arranger is passionate about the demands of a cappella work, the creation of sound based on meticulous shaping of the harmonic spectrum, the research and rediscovery of rare repertoires, and the cross-disciplinary links between music, poetry, history, philology and science.

Since 2015, she has taken her ensemble to prestigious national festivals such as Radio France Occitanie Montpellier (2016, 2021), La Cité de la Voix de Vézelay (winner in 2017), Via Aeterna (Mont St-Michel) & Rivage des Voix, Festival d'Arts Sacrés d'Evron, Perpignan, Sinfonia en Périgord, as well as internationally (Misteria Paschalia, Agapê, Barcelona MA festival in 2024, etc.).

In 2022, she conducted the Ensemble Irini at the Philharmonie de Paris (studio) and became a laureate of the REMA's REMArkables programme. Her creation ‘Printemps Sacré’ was a finalist for the 2022 REMA Awards. In 2024, she will collaborate with percussionist and conductor Tom de Cock on an expanded version of O Sidera, combining works by Xenakis and a four-handed creation based on the Delphic Hymn to Apollo, the first known written work (-138 BC).

In 2025, she will collaborate with ICTUS and Riccardo Nova on a joint creation. In 2022, she co-founded the #EllesDirigent network, which aims to promote female leadership in classical music. She is a regular speaker at events such as New Deal, the Early Music Summit, Sciences Po Paris, SACEM and the Sorbonne.

March 2026