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

A concert comprised of all thirteen Hildegard motets by composer and music historian Frank Ferko, with each of his works prefaced with its original monody by the ‘Sybil of the Rhine