The Esoterics

Please join The Esoterics for the final First Thursday of SAM's Michelangelo exhibit, as the group performs nine choral settings of the artist's sonnets by founding director Eric Banks. Among the works that the ensemble will be singing are Sonetti d'amore, O notte, and Etternalmente vive. These composition are featured on the group's CDs AMORE and SONETTARIA.

This event is free and open to the public.

A celebration of Barber’s life and work in the week of his centenary, in which The Esoterics will perform every one of his a cappella choral works, including his resplendent Agnus Dei.

A remounting of Eric Banks’ surround-sound choral opera, The seven creations, based on ancient Persian chant, to be sung at SAM’s Olympic Sculpture Park Pavilion.

The West Coast premiere of Thomas Jennefelt’s choral symphony: Villarosa sequences - seven movements of Swedish minimalism, to be accompanied by his Music for a big church; (for tranquility).

A ground-breaking multimedia concert-cum-exhibition, featuring world premiere commissions by Crouch, Hughes, Mäntyjärvi and Shank

The Esoterics will bring its seventeenth season to a spectacular finish with four performances of the complete Hildegard motets by esteemed American composer Frank Ferko (b 1950). Ferko's motets, composed between 1993 and 2010, set texts by the 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. In this concert, The Esoterics will perform fifteen motets by Ferko, along with two sequences by Hildegard, 'the Sybil of the Rhine.'