Octava is an ambitious chamber choir with a strong desire for different kinds of music and is all the time striving to develop and refine its expression. The members all have a great experience of choirs and a common ambition to let the music be the centre. The repertoire is relatively broad but is mainly focused on traditional, modern and sacred music. In the last few years contemporary music has come to be an increasingly more prominent part of Octava's repertoire and the choir is striving to sing works which have not before been performed in its home town of Östersund - modern music by women as well as men composers - and this has resulted in a number of first performances.