Initially a musicologist and opera singer specializing in early music, it was thanks to the Ensemble Irini, which she founded in 2014, that Lila Hajosi took up choir conducting in 2021 and will soon be conducting an orchestra. The Ensemble Irini has enabled her to establish herself as an artistic director through the programs 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, theater, opera, and chamber music, then at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (2018-2021), where she was a scholarship recipient. 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 what she witnessed. 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 master classes, ultimately became her vocation. Since September 2021, she has been training with conductor Sergio Monterisi.
After Maria Nostra, the Ensemble Irini's first album released in 2018 on L'empreinte digitale (Choc de Classica), Lila Hajosi created O Sidera, whose critically acclaimed album released in 2021 will be her first opus as a conductor, a success that Printemps Sacré (Psalmus, 2024), awarded a TTTT by Télérama, will confirm.
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 connections between music, poetry, history, philology, and science.
Since 2015, she has taken her ensemble to prestigious national and international festivals in France and abroad. In 2022, she conducted the Ensemble Irini at the Philharmonie de Paris (studio) and was awarded the REMA's REMArkables program. Her creation Printemps Sacré is a finalist for the 2022 REMA awards. In 2023, she will create JANUA, a monumental program by the Ensemble Irini with vocal octet and sackbuts. In 2024, she collaborated with percussionist and conductor Tom de Cock on Prohitissai, combining Lassus, Byzantine chants, and works by Xenakis, as well as a four-hand creation based on the Delphic Hymn to Apollo, the first known written work in the West (187 BC). She was also chosen by Jordi Savall, along with the Ensemble Irini, to tour in the summer of 2024. In 2025, she will collaborate with ICTUS and Riccardo Nova on a joint creation that she will conduct.
In 2022, she co-founded the #EllesDirigent network to promote female leadership in classical music. 2025 and 2026 will see the creation of Invictae, the Ensemble Irini's first transdisciplinary collaboration (dance and spatial design) with an all-female cast, and Post Tenebras (spero lucem), a grandiose double choir work with brass instruments revealing the splendors of late 16th-century Venice during the Byzantine Renaissance.
March 2025
