Medieval music ensemble based in The Netherlands.
Sibil•la Ensemble is a symposium of musicians from diverse backgrounds and origins, prepared to engage in experimentation within the realms of aesthetics and performance practices, with ultimate goal to serve the spirituality of the music.
Viriditas
Debut Audiovisual Album with the audiophile immersive label TRPTK. Chants and secular songs from the 12th and 13th centuries that celebrate the power of the natural world.
Available as 4K Video Download with Immersive Audio.
Nominated for the International Classical Music Awards in the category of Early Music.
In consideration for the GRAMMY® AWARDS for Best Music Film / Best Engineered Album, Classical / Producer of the Year, Classical.
Nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in the category of Traditional Ethnic Music.
Winner of the IFA Indie Film Awards, Best Music Video category. Available as 4K Video Download with Spatial Audio.
[Sibil•la Ensemble’s] art is a magnificent paradigm of devoted work on the preservation and development of European music heritage, their focus on medieval music underlined a decisive field of the cultural interdisciplinary character of European heritage.
Thrausma Journal
29th Sept
YouTube Release
Plenitude draws inspiration from the Rubaiyat poems of the medieval Persian mathematician and philosopher Omar Khayyám (1048–1131). The Arabic verses reflect how true prosperity is not found in material wealth and grandeur, but in the simplicity of existence, in silence, and in communion with the world around us.
The work was recorded live at the First Evangelical Church of Athens, during Sacred Music Festival of the Greek National Opera. We performed the piece in our concert ‘Nature, Worship, and the Divine’, (14.04.2025)
10-14 Sept 2025
Ensemble in Residence
We’re very grateful to announce that we will be the Ensemble in Residence at Muze van Zuid, a widely known and supported festival which annually celebrates five days of musical heritage in various new neighbourhoods of Amsterdam! As part of Amsterdam’s 750th birthday, we’ll reimagine medieval and renaissance music-life in the city of Amsterdam, through a series of performances, musical walks and interactive workshops for children.
We would like to deeply thank the Festival and its director Huib Ramaer, whose enthusiasm and support have been with us from the very beginning of this collaboration! Mark your calendars for September 9–14, and stay tuned for more updates soon!
ANABIOSIS: Medieval and Traditional Music of Cyprus – 10 September, Van Eeghenstraat 222, 15:00
An afternoon concert dedicated to the music of Cyprus, highlighting the island’s rich and beautiful musical traditions. Medieval music from the Franco-Cypriot Codex MS Turin J.II.9, combined with Cypriot traditional songs and dances.
Medieval Music Workshops – 11 September, Taalhuis Amsterdam, starting from 16:00
We introduce children to medieval music and medieval instruments through stories, collaborative and interactive games, and we teach them medieval songs.
Echoes of Holland: Amsterdam 1275-2025 – 1 3 September, Vondelkerk, 20:00
Medieval, Renaissance & contemporary music of the Netherlands. The program will present works by Hadewijch, Christian Hollander and Carolus Souliert, alongside Dutch medieval and traditional songs. To bridge past and present, we incorporate contemporary works by Dutch and Netherlands-based composers, including: Louis Andriessen, Yannis Kyriakides and Amarante Nat.
2026 – 2027
Official Selection
We’re officially part of the next generation of Sustainable-EEEMERGING supported ensembles! Together with fellow ensembles, we’ll receive guidance, new opportunities, and build a strong foundation for many exciting projects during 2026-2027.
Check out the website and support the selected emerging ensembles, as well as this unique organisation:
31st Dec
Press Announcements
Every year, Textura makes a roundup selection of albums to which their editors “repeatedly returned and which repeatedly rewarded that return.” We’re very excited to announce that our debut album Viriditas is in the 2024 selection. Textura’s editor-in-chief Ron Schepper kindly asked us to select a work that deeply inspired us over the past year and write a few words about it. Read below the article with our response and Lecture’s review of the album. We’re very thankful for this contribution and, of course, for the amazing news!
20th Dec
New Blog
In the Middle Ages, Latin and Arabic translations of ancient mystical texts known as the Corpus Hermeticum began to appear. These writings were attributed to Hermes Trismegistus (“Thrice Great Hermes”), a syncretisation of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. Composed in Hellenistic Egypt between the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, the writings encompassed a wide range of esoteric knowledge, from philosophy and cosmology to alchemy, astronomy, medicine, and theology.
This blog explores mystical dimensions of Hermetic philosophy, especially as they relate to myēsis (initiation), palingenesis (spiritual rebirth), and the experience of ecstasy. An introduction to how the Hermetic tradition conceives of human transformation as a total ontological shift, through which the soul becomes divine.
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