Cathedral Music From Salzburg, 1780
A Reconstruction of Solemn Vespers at the Time of Mozart
The Adelfos Ensemble welcomes you as we close our landmark 15th season as a mixed ensemble with a spring program dedicated to music from Mozart’s time working in Salzburg, Austria (1773-80). His Vesperae sollenne de confessore (Solemn Vespers of a Confessor, K. 339), a setting of the 5 standard Vespers psalms plus the Magnificat canticle which he composed for the Salzburg Cathedral, form the basis for a reconstructed cathedral vespers service assembled by the late Dr. Alejandro Enrique Planchart for his UCSB Cappella Cordina in 1987. Our chorus will be joined by strings, brass, timpani, and organ for this lavish, aristocratic musical spectacle.
The program includes Mozart’s Solemn Vespers of a Confessor (K. 339) and Regina Caeli (K. 276), Michael Haydn’s concerted motet Tres sunt qui testimonium dant (MH 183), Gregorian chants, and organ preludes and the motet Justum deduxit Domine by prior Domkapellmeister Johann Ernst Eberlin.
📅 Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024
🕢 Time: 7:30 p.m.
📍 Venue: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street
The Adelfos Ensemble was founded in 2004 as a men’s a-cappella ensemble and pursued that path until 2010, when it became a mixed voice choral ensemble. Temmo Korisheli took over direction of the group from Dr. Michael Eglin in 2008. Our goal is to offer the best of a-cappella and other choral music to audiences in the Santa Barbara area through live performances, radio broadcasts, and recordings. The group programs a broad repertoire of music spanning more than a millennium, from ancient chant and Renaissance motets to folksong arrangements and contemporary works. Adelfos Ensemble exists to explore the wide world of choral literature and, as the Santa Barbara News-Press observed, to “move right and left of center in the choral tradition.”
About the Director Temmo Korisheli is an active performer in many musical styles, especially medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque. Recent early-music engagements have included concerts with Ensemble Ciaramella in Los Angeles, Victoria, and New York, and with the Texas Early Music Project in Austin. He has been on staff with the Amherst Early Music Festival of New England for the past 22 years, where he has collaborated with many luminaries of the early-music world; he also serves as bursar of the Festival. Mr. Korisheli has appeared as soloist with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, the New York Collegium under Andrew Parrott, and regional oratorio societies; as a guest artist with several university early music programs around the state and beyond; and sang for many years in the UCSB Cappella Cordina. He is a founding member of the UCSB Middle East Ensemble, sings frequently in the Opera Santa Barbara Chorus, and plays clawhammer banjo, and, this December, celebrates 20 seasons of spreading Christmas cheer with the Santa Barbara Holiday Carollers. Mr. Korisheli is assistant music director at All Saints’-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Montecito. He holds the MA and PhD (ABD) degrees in historical musicology from UCSB, where he studied with Alejandro Planchart and William Prizer and where he presently supervises the Music Library.
Akathist of Thanksgiving
Sopranos
Anna Aboud, Erin Bonski-Evans, Christine Hollinger, Jennifer Johnson, Molly Markstrum, Lee Naftali, Zoe Nathan, Emma Parker, Adelle Rodkey, Sarah Slezak
Altos
Kris Aylesworth, Susie Groves, Holly Hoffman, Lindsay Lettow, DeeDee Nussmeier, Marliiz Romano, Margot Roseman, Rochelle Yoshida
Tenors
Myron Aguilar, Noam Fields-Meyer, Ryan Girley Andy Lentz, Matt Moore, Karl Sandin, Temmo Korisheli
Basses
Mark Cariillo, Matt Evans, Jack Fisher, David Hodges, Bruce Kendall, Bob Lally, Erik Rodkey, Steven Thomson, Dan Tierney