One golden stamp… two golden stamps… tree golden stamps and The Grand Prix at The Tampere Vocal Music Festival – just to begin with. Tours to Argentina, Canada, Cuba, different festivals, Sound of Music, concerts with different orchestras etc. Here is the CV of the 25-year-old Philomela.

2011

Choir of the Year Concert in Turku, Finland

African tour (Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Organ Night and Aria Festival, Espoo, Finland

‘Philomela Light’ Concert Tour in Finland

2010

Concert tour in China (Shanghai, Beijing, Luanping)

The Choir of the Year Nomination by the Finnish Female Choir Association

2009

Hidas Requiem with the orchestra of the Finnish Defence Forces and Helsinki Academic male Choir

Armless Maiden at The Tampere Vocal Music Festival

Taipei International Choral Festival, Taiwan

Holst’s Planets with Helsinki Symphony Orchestra

The Best Choir In Finland -competition on TV, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), Channel 2

Let The Peoples Sing final, EBU, Oslo, Norway

2008

A tour in Zambia supported by Ministry for Foreign affairs of Finland

2007

Nomination for Nordic Council’s Music Prize

Tour to Seattle, USA and Vancouver Festival, Canada

2006

Tour to Trondheim, Norway with female choir Cantus

Tour to Lapland, Luosto Classic

Polyfollia Festival in St-Lo, France

Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe with Polytech Choir and Radio Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony together with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Polytech Choir

2005

Debussy’s Sirenes and Holst’s Planets with Helsinki Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony together with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Polytech Choir

Two tours in Finland

Kirkko Soikoon Festival, Helsinki and Via Crucis

Tour in Japan (World Choral Symposium in Kyoto & Expo2005), tour in Belgium

2004

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony together with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Polytech Choir Kirkko soikoon Festival

Tour in Ireland, tour in Germany, 20th Anniversary Concerts in Helsinki

2003

Concert at The Tampere Vocal Music Festival

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony together with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Polytech Choir

Tour to Cuba

2002

Raising of the Wind music video

Unicef concert

Tour in Japan

ISME conference in Bergen, Norway

Spanish Concert tour and Tolosa choir competition (Third prize in equal voices Polyphonic and Folkloristic categories)

Enescun Oedipe’s concert version with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Polytech Choir

2001

Three gold stamps and The Grand Prix at The Tampere Vocal Music Festival

2000

15-Year Anniversary Tour in Finland

The Female Choir of the Year

1999

Brazil-Argentina tour

Two gold stamps at Tampere Vocal Music Festival

The Choral Recording of the Year: Rakkaus repii jäsenet

1998

The Sound of Music at Helsinki City Theatre

A weekend-workshop plus a recording with Tamia Valmont in Paris

1997

Tour in Florida, USA

1996

First prize at Finnish Female Choir Association’s Choir Festival in Kokkola

1995

Two golden stamps at The Tampere Vocal Music Festival

1994

10-Year Anniversary Concert First prizes in two categories (folksongs and adult choirs) at the international choir competition in Powell River, Canada

1991

Amateur Music Award by the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation (YLE)

The Choir of the Year award by the Finnish Female Choir Association

1989

First prize at the international choir contest in Verona, Italy and Budapest, Hungary

1987

Best female choir at the national music festival in Oulu

1986

International Choir Festival in Cantonigròs, Spain

1985

One golden stamp at The Tampere Vocal Music Festival

1984

Philomela was born