Our 2025 holiday concert
Hodie Christus Natus Est!
Saturday, December 6 — 3 p.m. matinee
St. Anthony’s Chapel, 2300 Garden Street, Santa Barbara
Please join us for our 2025 holiday concert on Saturday, December 6th, 3:00 pm at St. Anthony’s Chapel (2300 Garden Street, Santa Barbara 93101). Our program will be devoted to choral works from the High Renaissance, featuring especially the sublime works of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, in honor of the 500th anniversary of his birth in the Papal States (Italy). We are thrilled to be performing this repertoire in St. Anthony’s Chapel, whose ambience and acoustics are perfectly suited to it.
Online ticket sales will be available soon through this website. Of course, there are always plenty of tickets available at the door, as well. We look forward to sharing our music with you on December 6th!
About our Ensemble
What began in 2004 as a group of men coming together informally to sing a-cappella music for fun, evolved over the next four years into a male-voice performing choir named The Adelfos Ensemble. Temmo Korisheli took over the leadership of the group from Dr. Michael Eglin in 2008, and 2010 added women’s voices to complete the group as it exists today. Our goal is to offer the best of a-cappella and other choral music to audiences in the Santa Barbara area through live concerts and other performance opportunities. We program 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 our Director
Temmo Korisheli has led the Adelfos Ensemble since 2008. He is a singer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist across a range of styles and traditions, but with a special love for early European music (music of the ninth through seventeenth centuries), the Anglican choral tradition, and oldtimey string-band music. In addition to performing nationally and internationally, Mr. Korisheli has performed with many local musical institutions such as Santa Barbara Opera, the UCSB Middle Eastern Ensemble, the Ventura County Master Chorale, the UCSB Chamber Choir, the Santa Barbara Symphony Chorus, and the music programs at All Saints’-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Montecito, First Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara, and at the Old Mission. He holds the MA and C.Phil. degrees in historical musicology from UCSB, where he studied with Alejandro Planchart and William Prizer and where he presently catalogues wax audio cylinders and runs the paper preservation lab for the UCSB Library’s Department of Special Research Collections.
Akathist of Thanksgiving
Sopranos
Star Duffy
Jenn Griffin
Becky Hoffman
Jennifer Johnson
Lee Naftali
Zoe Nathan
Emma Parker
Altos
Anna Aboud
Andy Fullington
Holly Hoffman
Susan Keller
Margot Roseman
Roni Shen
Tenors
Aaron Brinegar
David Hodges
Matthew Moore
John Rodkey
Karl Sandin
Grace Wenzel
Phil Wilson
Basses
Eric Bank
Mark Carrillo
Graham Clarke
Jack Fischer
Bob Lally
Erik Rodkey
Dan Tierney