Christmas isn't Christmas without family, friends and good music. With that in mind, The King's Singers have shared their festive favourites in the Guardian Christmas playlist - 2 hours of wonderful choral music to suit all tastes. Classics from Mariah Carey and Irving Berlin take their place alongside hymns sung by the inimitable Choir of King's College, Cambridge in this yuletide soundtrack. On Tuesday 16 December The
Congratulations to the Royal College of Music’s Woodhouse Centre on its recent High Impact Award for its involvement in Global Entrepreneurship Week. Events included a fundraising workshop with online crowd funding company Zequs; a tax and finance talk with Trevor Ford; and a presentation by Eric Whitacre who is honored to have been named a Woodhouse Associate. The RCM Woodhouse Centre for Professional Development is recognised internationally
To begin the third week of their North American tour, The King's Singers appeared at The Greene Space, New York City, NY for a special radio broadcast. WQXR Presents Christmas with The King's Singers aired on Tuesday 16 December and featured many festive songs performed live to both a studio audience and the online viewers who tuned in to watch as it was streamed online. If you didn’t
Fly to Paradise, taken from Eric’s award-winning musical Paradise Lost, was sung by the incredible 8,409 virtual singers of Virtual Choir 4 and is now available for performance. Written for SSATB choir and electronica, the piece is also the subject of the Virtual Choir 4 Remix Project. The sheet music and accompanying electronica track for Fly to Paradise are now available through J.W. Pepper. For a complete list of Eric's
Julian Bliss will make his South American début with the São Paulo Symphony in June 2015. He will perform his recently-recorded Nielsen Clarinet Concerto in a series of three concerts under the baton of Tito Muñoz in the beautiful Sala São Paulo. Thursday 4th & Friday 5th June 2015 | 21:00 Saturday 6th June | 16:30 For more information, visit the OESEP website.
On December 12th, Eric Whitacre and co-host Brian Newhouse will present an hour-long programme of the music of Christmas including some of Eric's own pieces and other Christmas classics. The programme will be aired at 7pm CST on December 12 on Minnesota Public Radio which will be repeated at the same time on December 17.
The King's Singers are excited to be joined by esteemed British choral director and conductor Dr. Stephen Darlington and Eric Whitacre, one of the most popular and performed composers of our time, at The King's Singers Residential Summer School, 6-11 July 2015. The King's Singers will run daily one-on-one sessions, as well as workshops and master classes with their special guests. The course also includes a sung Compline in
The Los Angeles Master Chorale will premiere Eric Whitacre's new holiday piece 'Glow' during a sold-out performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall on 13th December 2014. The Festival of Carols celebrates the music of Christmas and includes some beautiful arrangements of some familiar Christmas carols. For more information about the concert, visit the LAMC website. 'Glow' was originally written for the World of Color Honor
Julian will perform live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune on Monday 8th December. Tune in at 17:30 to hear live performances and an interview with presenter Suzy Klein. Visit the BBC Radio 3 website to listen live or listen back on iPlayer for up to 4 weeks following the broadcast. Before then, Julian performs with the Vanbrugh Quartet at the University College Cork and
