EVO Ensemble

EVO Ensemble is a vocal ensemble of young singers from diverse musical backgrounds specialized in contemporary music, founded and directed by mezzo-soprano Virginia Guidi. Its artistic mission is to embrace a wide variety of musical genres as a means of exploration, communication, and artistic exchange. This approach is made possible both by the members’ diverse backgrounds—including classical singing, pop, beatboxing, and extended vocal techniques—and by the breadth of the repertoires. In 2020, EVO Ensemble established the EVO Forest on Treedom, a virtual forest dedicated to music and aimed at raising awareness of environmental and social issues.

Winter 2017
- Debut in at Ibi fracassorium, Ibi fuggitorium performing Le petit livre meurtre by A. Maurs.

Autumn 2018
- KOI soundtrack (Journeyman Pictures and winner of the 2019 Mosaic World Film Festival). The ensemble performed Kioku Shimasu (記憶します), for four voices and electronics.

2019
- Italian premiere of Ulenflucht by Anna Korsun at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, together with Voxnova Italia counducted by Tonino Battista - Collaboration with the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- Italian premiere of Korsun’s Moshi Moshi for voices and smartphones - Collaboration with the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo.
- Mirabilia Urbis at the Hungarian Academy in Rome with the performance Binding or not-Binding Commitments by Carlo Caloro.

2021
EVO Ensemble was selected for the Biennale College Musica of the Venice Biennale and worked with Andreas Fischer of Neue Vocalsolisten.
- Claude Vivier’s Love Songs
- Italian premiere Peter Ablinger’s Studien nach der Natur
- Italian premiere Jennifer Walshe’s A Folk Song Collection Vol. 1 & 2.
- World premiere fo the vocal ensemble version of A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient Renaissance of Jennifer Walshe’s concert-performance Is it Cool To Try Hard Now?

2022
- Project Schola supported by the Lazio Region through the Vitamina G programme. World premieres for voices and electronics by young composers.
- World premiere at Teatro Argentina in Rome for the Accademia Filarmonica Romana season - Tutta la notte i cani hanno abbaiato music by F. Volante, libretto by S. Cappelletto and conducted by M. Campanale.
- Steve Reich’s The Desert Music for vocal ensemble and orchestra at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and Auditorium Latina Conservatory, conducted by Tonino Battista, in collaboration with PMCE and the Respighi Vocal Ensemble.

2023
- Berlin label Elektramusic released Acousmatic Works Lettera dalle trincee di Adrianopoli, for which EVO Ensemble contributed to the collection and experimentation of vocal material.
- World premiere Ondřej Adámek INES for sixteen voices, electronics and Disklavier - Collaboration with the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- Magic Circles by Fabrizio De Rossi Re and Guido Barbieri, featuring actor Vinicio Marchioni - Collaboration with the Reate Festival - performces in Rome and Rieti.
- 60th Festival of Nuova Consonanza at La Pelanda, music by G. Scelsi - Collaboration with the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi.

2024
- Lux et Tenebrae at Lo Squero in Venice - Fondazione Cini, music by G. Scelsi, D. Guaccero and E. Macchi
- World premiere Oh, bewilderibg world- new installation by composer Amen Feizabadi - Collaboration with the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- 61st Nuova Consonanza Festival at Auditorium Parco dell Musica, music by D. Guaccero and E. Macchi
- 61st Nuova Consonanza Festival at Teatro Vacello, theatrical world premiere of SyroSadunSettimino. Operina Monodanza in un atto di notte by S. Bussotti and conducted by Marcello Panni.

2025
- EVO Ensemble started the collaboration with Saxatile Ensemble by Enzo Filippetti performed Luciano Berio’s Canticum Novissimi Testamenti conducted by Lorenzo Marino. The programme was later reprised at the festival Termoli in Musica 2025 and at SaxFest 2026, where the ensemble also premiered Patrizio Esposito’s Polittico del Riscatto.
- World premiere Resis Festival with ARXIS Percussion and counducted by Armando Merino - Santiago de Compostela and Madrid for the and performing works by Helmut Lachenmann and Hugo Chao Porta.
- Sacra – Festival of Contemporary Sacred Music, a project supported by the Regione Lazio, music by G. Scelsi, A. Brizzi, F. Sebastiani - organized by the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in the context of the Jubilee celebrations.

2026
- Oratorio del Gonfalone season conducted by L. Marino, music by O. di Lasso, L. Marenzio, V. Aleotti, M. Cimagalli, F. Sebastiani, G. Scelsi, V. Guidi (world premiere), L. Marino (world premiere).
- Night of Museums at Sapienza University of Rome with a preview of Etruscan Avant-Garde: Narrating Etruscan Culture through Music and Experimentation, a project supported by Sapienza’s Third Mission programme.