2015 | The Esoterics’ 22nd concert season

BDENIE: The centenary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-night vigil

Friday | 6 March 2015 | 800 pm | Seattle
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church | 4805 NE 45th Street

Saturday | 7 March 2015 | 800 pm | West Seattle
Holy Rosary Catholic Church | 4210 SW Genesee St

Sunday | 8 March 2015 | 300 pm | Olympia
St John’s Episcopal Church | 114 20th Avenue SE

Sunday | 8 March 2015 | 700 pm | Tacoma
Christ Episcopal Church | 310 N K Street

Tuesday | 10 March 2015 | 700pm | Seattle
Queen Anne Christian Church | 1316 3rd Avenue West

AGONIA: Considering agony and comfort for the afflicted

In this poignant program of timeless medieval poetry set by modern composers, The Esoterics will perform Ned Rorem’s haunting cantata In time of pestilence, Alfred Schnittke’s devastatingly mystical Verses of repentance, and the lament and triumph of John Joubert’s Pro pace motets.

Friday | 24 April 2015 | 800 pm | Seattle
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church | 4805 NE 45th Street

Saturday | 25 April 2015 | 730 pm | Tacoma
Christ Episcopal Church | 310 N K Street

Sunday | 26 April 2015 | 300 pm | West Seattle
Holy Rosary Catholic Church | 4210 SW Genesee St

EKSTASIA: Pursuing ecstasy and the search for the divine

The ensemble welcomes Skyros String Quartet to present choral settings of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe, Mechtild of Magdeburg, and Dan-Eric Slocum: Tarik O’Regan’s The ecstasies above, Aaron Jay Kernis’ Ecstatic meditations, Eric Banks’ I am among them, as well as Of seasons have I sung by composer-and-poet Charlie Leftridge.

Friday | 5 June 2015 | 800 pm | Seattle
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church | 4805 NE 45th Street

Saturday | 6 June 2015 | 200 pm | Portland
First Christian Church | 1314 SW Park Ave

Sunday | 7 June 2015 | 300 pm | West Seattle
Holy Rosary Catholic Church | 4210 SW Genesee St

AUDACIOR: Admiring boldness and the fearlessness of heart

This audacious program will present Francis Poulenc’s inimitable masterpiece setting poems by the imprisoned Paul Eluard, Figure humaine, as well as works by Abbie Betinis and Timothy Takach, and the world premiere of HARMONIA composer Dominick DiOrio’s The visible world, with texts by Oscar Wilde.

Friday | 7 August 2015 | 800 pm | Seattle
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church | 4805 NE 45th Street

Saturday | 8 August 2015 | 800 pm | West Seattle
Holy Rosary Catholic Church | 4210 SW Genesee St

Sunday | 9 August 2015 | 300 pm | Bainbridge Island
Grace Episcopal Church | 8595 NE Day Road

SUBTILIOR: Contemplating fragility in the world around us

This program will feature three world premieres by the winners of last year’s POLYPHONOS competition: Michael Gilbertson, Karen Seigel, and Hasan Uçarsu, Aaron Jay Kernis’ The wheel of time, the dance, setting poems by Wendell Berry, as well as Eric Banks’ setting of Constantine Cavafy: This delicate universe.

Friday | 2 October 2015 | 800 pm | Seattle
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church | 4805 NE 45th Street

Saturday | 3 October 2015 | 800 pm | West Seattle
Holy Rosary Catholic Church | 4210 SW Genesee St

Sunday | 4 October 2015 | 300 pm | Bainbridge Island
Grace Episcopal Church | 8595 NE Day Road

SVIRIDOV: Georgy Sviridov centennial

For its final concert of Season 22, the ensemble will celebrate the centennial of the Russian composer Georgy Sviridov with a program that includes Nightly clouds, Pushkin’s garland, and his Choral concerto.

Friday | 11 December 2015 | 800 pm | Seattle
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church | 4805 NE 45th Street

Saturday | 12 December 2015 | 800 pm | West Seattle
Holy Rosary Catholic Church | 4210 SW Genesee St

Sunday | 13 December 2015 | 730 pm | Tacoma
Christ Episcopal Church | 310 N K St