June 2026
Enlightened Harmonies
A Celebration of Jewish Choral Music
Tuesday, June 2 — 7:30 p.m.
Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street, Santa Barbara
The Adelfos Ensemble is delighted to close our 15th season under the direction of Temmo Korisheli with “Enlightened Harmonies,” a celebration of Jewish and Hebrew-language contributions to the world’s shared choral heritage.
Join us for an evening of original works by father-and-son Hugo and Samuel Adler, Yehudi Wyner, Daniel Cuellar-Trujillo, Eric Whitacre, and Ernst Bloch, alongside arrangements of Ladino and Shabbat folksongs by Yehezkel Braun and Iris Levine.
Performed in the soaring acoustics of Trinity Episcopal Church, this concert promises a musical immersion into life, reflection, and deep joy.
Online ticket sales will be available soon through this website through June 1st. Of course, there are always plenty of tickets available at the door, as well. We look forward to sharing our music with you on June 2nd.
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
Becky Hoffman
Molly Markstrum
Lee Naftali
Zoe Nathan
Emma Parker
Altos
Anna Aboud
Andy Fullington
Holly Hoffman
Susan Keller
Lindsay Lettow
Margot Roseman
Roni Shen
Tenors
Aaron Brinegar
David Hodges
Matthew Moore
Karl Sandin
Phil Wilson
Basses
Mark Carrillo
Graham Clarke
Jack Fischer
Bob Lally
Erik Rodkey
Dan Tierney