Sibil.la Ensemble
Sibil.la Ensemble

medieval music,

folk traditions & contemporary rituals

Medieval music ensemble based in The Netherlands.

Sibil•la Ensemble combines deep research with the spirituality of music. We research original manuscripts of sacred chants, secular songs, and ritual repertoire from the 11th to 15th century alongside traditional music, and reimagine it using reconstructions of medieval instruments and informed performance practice. Research is just the starting point. On stage, this music becomes ritual again, carrying the same energy it once held in the temples, courts, and streets of medieval Europe.

We see our concerts as full sensory experiences, blending historical depth with contemporary staging, sound, and atmosphere. The result is music that breathes both authenticity and life, rewarding our audiences who expect rigor and those who expect to be moved.

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 AwardsBest 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

News

1 August, 17:00

Upcoming Concert

DANCING MAY Medieval Songs and Dances Across Europe.

Concert at the American Gardens in Opatija, Croatia. Organised by the Kvarner Festival and Sustainable EEEMERGING.

2026-2027

Official Selection

SUSTAINABLE-EEEmerging

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:

4 May

YouTube Release

Yannis Kyriakides: Lingua Ignota

Yannis Kyriakides revives Lingua Ignota (Unknown Language), the mystical language invented by Hildegard von Bingen, and translates it into music through various algorithms. Lingua Ignota is one of the earliest known constructed languages, with 23 letters and a glossary of 1,011 words. Each word, corresponding to theological and spiritual concepts, generates contrapuntal melodies.

Lingua Ignota was commissioned by Sibil•la Ensemble in collaboration with the Greek National Opera for the project ‘Nature, Worship and the Divine’.

December 2025

Participation in Album

Apíxima in Days 2025

Days 2025 edition includes 37 of the works that participated in the Electroacoustic Music Days 2025, including a remix of Apíxima by Ioannis Panagiotou. Our ensemble commissioned the piece in collaboration with the Greek National Opera.

The release is part of the “Days” series and aims to capture the dynamics and the wide spectrum of approaches in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music creation by composers who come from or live in Greece.

The album was released by Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (helmca).

26 July

New Blog

Corpus Hermeticum: Mysticism, Myēsis and Ecstasy

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.