Mixed Choral Ensemble from Finland.

Chamber Choir EMO Ensemble consists of young students of music and professional singers. It was founded at the Espoo Music Institute in autumn 2000. At three years of age, the choir won 1st prize in the first international Harald Andersen Chamber Choir Competition; the competition was open to both amateur and professional choirs. The choir's performance of Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jaderlund by Esa-Pekka Salonen also received a special prize for best performance of a contemporary work.

Particularly after the above-mentioned victory, EMO Ensemble has become known especially as a performer of contemporary music. The choir offers contemporary composers an instrument of a high standard. The music composed in the 21st century by the most important Finnish contemporary composers, e.g. Esa-Pekka Salonen and Lotta Wennakoski, can be heard on EMO Ensemble's first recording Maasta (Of the Earth). It was published in autumn 2005 by Alba Records. The Association of Finnish choir conductors chose the record as the choir record of the year 2005, and the critics of Helsingin Sanomat and Hufvudstadsbladet called it one of the best records of the year.

The aim of EMO Ensemble is to remain an experimental and versatile group of performers that is constantly renewed. In summer 2002, the choir gave a concert of water-related music at the Tapiola public swimming pool, dressed in bath robes and swimming costumes. At the KuoroEspoo festival in 2004, EMO Ensemble combined cinematic material and light effects to the sound environment created by the choir. In autumn 2006, the choir was invited for the second time to perform at the Polyfollia festival in Normandy, France. At the festival the choir was given standing ovations for a programme of challenging contemporary music.