Ensemble Youkali- a collection of expert, established musicians coming together for the express purpose of creating artistic islands both in the way we rehearse and in the way we perform.
How do we create these islands? By listening to and respecting ourselves and each other. By recognizing and claiming agency for our established abilities and our inner divinities. By recognizing the subtle and attuned souls that make our audience. Our island is not the luxury resort where nature is kept at bay in the service of comfort. We revel in the powerful possibilities of the raw elements; the water, wind, and earth, our hearts, minds and bodies. When we and our audience strike the divine spark together, then we have the means to create fire. With our audience we seek to find that sacred and ephemeral space, that Youkali; that utopia that comes and goes.
Ensemble Youkali- an island of our own creations where the singing breezes blow both cool and warm; excitingly, soothingly, sensually, musically.
C’est Youkali.
Ensemble Youkali is a new musicians' dedicated to high quality performances of opera and other sung music, created through a process of vibrant collaboration that seeks to interpret works with a spontaneous, fearless spirit. Ensemble Youkali seeks to maintain an abiding respect for each other, for the integrity of all compositions presented and for the receptive intelligence of our audience
