Jani Sivén

Jani Sivén is an acclaimed conductor, composer and pedagogue. Since 2015, he has served as a full-time lecturer in choral conducting at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Sivén has worked with over 50 choirs and orchestras and served previously as the artistic director of the Chamber Choir Audite, the Tampere Philharmonic Choir, the Sinfonietta SOI Orchestra, the Helsinki Concordia Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Choral Institute, the Finnish Boys' Choir, and the Galante Youth Choir. He has also worked as chorus master of the Helsinki Music Centre Choir. As a guest conductor, Sivén has collaborated with, among others, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, the chamber choirs of Finnish and Latvian radios, and the Finnish National Opera Choir.

In addition to his work at the Sibelius Academy, he has served as a lecturer in orchestral and choral conducting at the Helsinki Conservatoire and as an instructor in the choral and ensemble conducting program at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. He has also served as a visiting teacher both in Finland and abroad.

His composition catalogue contains such works as the chamber operas Pyhä Birgitta (Saint Birgitta), Abelard & Héloïse et Troijan naiset, Metropolin tuulet (Winds of the Metropolis), a cantata commissioned for the centenary of the Nation of Southern Finland student organisation, and Fenestra Finnorum, a work commissioned to celebrate the 50^e anniversary of the Finnish Institute in Rome. Sivén was awarded the conductor’s prize at the Tampere Vocal Music Festival chorus review in 1999 and was named Choral Conductor of the year by The Finnish Choral Directors’ Association (FCDA) in 2000.