Cort Roberts
Alex Bender
Kai Hirayama
Michelle Farah

Pano Hora Ensemble

EXPLORING MUSICAL INTERSECTIONS

The Pano Hora Ensemble explores musical intersections, most obviously those that occur when Greek musical ideas are featured within a classical ensemble.

Greek music, since Homer, generally has been connected to narrative — irresistible stories of passion, grief, human nature, and its foibles, and the unique suffering brought by familial conflict.

Pano Hora Ensemble seeks to bring to life the music by Charles Calomiris and others so that our audience can resonate with and reflect on all of human emotions and experiences. Stay in touch with us by subscribing to the newsletter.

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Gethsemane

This opera exists at the boundary between secular drama and sacred oratorio. It takes place in the hour before Jesus is seized, and explores possible conversations between Jesus and others. Its theme is the radical nature of the idea of sacrificial love. Gethsemane is a time for choosing, a place where creation, joy, beauty, pain, sacrifice, death, and resurrection reveal the loving thread that knits them together.

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Discover

The New York City based musicians who make up the Pano Hora Ensemble bring extraordinary talent and experience to our projects.

We also have become friends who enjoy working together.

Friendship fosters deep collaborations where performers, composers, producers, and engineers learn from each other and contribute to each other’s creative processes.

You can see who we are and learn about our musical journeys by clicking below.

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We are currently working on two new albums (Philía, and Phrygian Gold) and preparing for a live performance in Merkin Hall on March 19 and 20 of 2027, which will feature the world premieres of two works by Charles Calomiris: the one-act opera, Gethsemane, and the Concerto Grosso Laïko.

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Experience

Our newsletter is called Ákou! which is Greek for listen.

Ákou! dives deeply into the ideas and influences that shape our music.

Sometimes we feature back stories about the creative impulses or thinking that underlie our projects, and sometimes we just take the opportunity to speak in more detail about whatever is on our minds as musicians and people.

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