Temmo Korisheli

Temmo Korisheli enjoys a multifaceted musical career, with a special emphasis on early music. He has performed frequently throughout the United States and Canada with the Renaissance wind band Ciaramella (Los Angeles), and as a guest of such early music groups as Ensemble La Monica (Berkeley), the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Liber unUsualis (Boston), the New York Collegium under Andrew Parrott, and Texas Early Music Project, as well as of the collegiums at UC Berkeley, USC, and UT-Austin. He also has appeared in concerts and theatrical productions at the Amherst Early Music Festival in New England (where he works on staff with TEMP director Danny Johnson) for the past 25 summers.

Mr. Korisheli is also active beyond the world of early music. He has been a featured soloist with various choral organizations in his native California, and has sung in several productions by Opera Santa Barbara. He is the artistic director of an a cappella mixed group, Adelfos Ensemble, and is a longtime program annotator and member of the Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces, another a cappella chamber choir. For the past 20 years, he has held various leadership roles in the music program of All Saints’-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church (Montecito), presently serving as its cantor and associate music director. He has long-time experience in Middle Eastern music and on the old-time banjo, and, this past winter, celebrated 22 seasons of spreading Christmas cheer with the Santa Barbara Holiday Carollers. He holds degrees in historical musicology and chemistry from UC Santa Barbara, where he is a supervisor and cataloguer in the Music Library.