Recent News & Recordings
THE REWAKING
The Esoterics is excited to return to St John’s in Olympia for its first public performance in nearly two years. This program, entitled THE REWAKING, revisits some of the group’s favorite pieces from its most-recently completed season in 2019. That season, with the theme “elements of integrity,” explored the concepts of vulnerability, inclusivity, honesty, and humility, and featured newly-written choral music by living composers who comprised “the new majority” – namely: women, transgender people, people of color, and members of the greater LGBTQIA+ community. The Esoterics hopes that you can either join us LIVE at St John’s in the audience, or tune in to our live-stream, for this contemporary choral contemplation of love, peace, renewal, togetherness, and gratitude.
At all times
This week, The Esoterics released its first video as a "virtual choir," a short piece by our founding director, Eric Banks, called "At all times" (2016). Eric's composition sets verses of light and compassion by Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness, the XIV Dalai Lama. While this was an isolating experience for the singers, who would much prefer to be singing together, this was an wonderful occasion for us to connect with The Esoterics' "diaspora" - those singers in our community that have moved to different cities and still wish that they could make music together with us.
Greater Seattle Choral Consortium
The Esoterics is proud to be a founding member of The Greater Seattle Choral Consortium, the non-profit organization that sponsors the Seattle Sings! Choral Festival. The GSCC is comprised of over sixty choral ensembles in the Puget Sound region each of whom have a unique mission, but a common love of singing and choral music. Please visit our "neighbor" choirs and see what the GSCC is doing for advocacy and support of choral music in our community at www.seattlesings.org.
