Eric Whitacre was one of the key-note speakers at LPL Financial's Annual Conference in San Diego - one of the largest gatherings of Independent Financial Advisors with more than 5,700 attendees. Conference Overview The LPL Financial annual conference, focus13, has earned a reputation as the premier sales and education event in the financial services industry. Designed for audiences of all levels, focus13 offers opportunities for
Tenebrae featured on BBC Radio 3's In Tune, speaking to presenter Sean Rafferty about their upcoming concerts alongside internationally acclaimed British mezzo soprano Sarah Connolly. They will perform at the Ivor Gurney Memorial Festival in Gloucester Cathedral on 31st August. The event has been organized to raise funds for a newly-commissioned stained glass window celebrating the life and works of Gloucestershire’s famous poet composer, Ivor Gurney. Stained
On Wednesday 16 October, The King's Singers will be launching their brand new studio album at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Taking place in the intimate setting of the Elgar Room, they will transport audience members back to the time of Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin. The concert marks the release of the brand new album "Great American Songbook", which contains 17
This Sunday CBC Radio 2′s Choral Concert, hosted by Peter Togni, will focus on American choir music with Eric Whitacre forging the way as a “choral superstar”. On this edition of Choral Concert, a selection of Eric’s works will be heard alongside other American composers including Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, Morten Lauridsen and Arron Copeland. For further information, please click here.
Following the success Virtual Choir 4, Eric Whitacre was interviewed by Classic FM's Tim Lihoreau (himself a participant in VC4) about the impact it's had - from its launch on the web to the first live performance at Buckingham Palace. For the full interview, please click here.
You’ve seen our production of Virtual Choir 4 Fly to Paradise, now it’s your turn. The community takeover. Grammy® Award-winning composer, conductor, lecturer - Eric Whitacre has launched a remix project of his latest virtual choir – Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise – in collaboration with SoundCloud. “Eric's taken the project further than ever, and mixed the music with an electronic sound bed,
Following his appearance at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Eric Whitacre is interviewed online for Arte TV. Eric was joined by more than 300 singers from 22 countries at the festival performing a programme of his own compositions and traditional Baltic songs. Please click here for the full interview.
Eric Whitacre has become Ambassador of the Rhapsody Project. Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity have launched its new arts-in-health project, the Rhapsody Project, drawing together visual and performing arts and creating 15 new bespoke pieces of music designed to help patients at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in their treatment and rehabilitation. Working with physiotherapists and occupational therapists and teaming up with audio guide company Imagineear, Chelsea
A new study suggests that choral singers not only synchornise their breathing, but also their hearbeats. Researchers in Sweden found that pulse rates for choir members sped up and slowed down at the same rate when they were singing together, something particularly noticeable in structured works. The overall effect was that heart rates slowed down during singing, and further research is to be done as to
