Recent News & Recordings
Approaching ecstasy: A collaboration with Whim W’Him
In a collaboration with Whim W’Him, and choreographer Olivier Wevers, The Esoterics will be performing Approaching ecstasy, setting eighteen poems of the Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy. The work, composed by Founding Director Eric Banks, will be in both English and Greek, and includes movements for string quartet and harp. There will be three performances in May at Seattle’s Intiman Theater. Join us for this remarkable choral ballet! Buy Tickets Now!
CHIAROSCURA: Meditating on the cusp of light and darkness
The Esoterics’ thirteenth CD celebrates the translation of the visual arts into the varied texture and expansive range of modern choral music. Featured on this CD are some of most virtuosic choral works ever written: including Richard Strauss’ Deutsche Motette and Schnittke’s inimitable Concerto for chorus a cappella.
HAPTADAMA: The seven creations
The Esoterics is proud to release its twelfth compact disc, HAPTADAMA: The seven creations. This concert-length surround-sound a cappella opera for 40 solo voices was composed between 2007 and 2010 (after two separate research trips to India) by The Esoterics’ founding director, Eric Banks, and is a choral recounting of the ancient Zoroastrian creation myth.
CHIAROSCURA
HAPTADAMA
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