San Antonio’s Agarita chamber ensemble to debut Shimmers of Byzantium this weekend

The world premiere of composer Ethan Wickman’s Shimmers of Byzantium this Saturday will conclude the 2024-2025 season of the Agarita chamber ensemble’s Caritas Concerts at the Chapel of the Incarnate Word.

Organist Andrew Lloyd, mezzo soprano Tynan Davis, soprano Megan Pachecano and composer Ethan Wickman playing the Turkish oud — a Middle Eastern lute — will be accompanied by Marisa Bushman (viola), Daniel Anastasio (piano), Sarah Silver Manzke (violin) and Ignacio Gallego (cello).

Agarita received a highly competitive Barlow Commission in order for Wickman to create the work while studying the oud and Turkish and Ottoman music in Turkey last year.

Naming the composition after a long-vanquished power with regal traditions that live on today isn’t happenstance. Wickman tends to perceive place as metaphor — as spiritual reminders of an illusory past that endures in the Jungian echo chambers of our collective imagination.

Free, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, Chapel of the Incarnate Word, 4503 Broadway, (210) 857-0822, agarita.org.

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