“Bliss, on top of his game, rose to the occasion with great skill and versatility, especially in the passages of gnawing conflict between clarinet and snare drum, finely played by Graham Johns.” Julian Bliss with the Royal Northern Sinfonia on Thursday 12th February 2015. Read the full article by Rob Barnes on The Journal website.  

Eric Whitacre Live at iTunes Festival 2014 is now available to pre-order on iTunes and will be released on 23 March 2015. Live at iTunes Festival 2014 features Eric's award-winning professional choir, the Eric Whitacre Singers, with legendary film composer Hans Zimmer (piano), Grammy® award-winning Hila Plitmann (soprano) and rising star Marius Beck (guitar/vocals). As well as featuring Eric’s new arrangement of ‘Lux Aurumque’ (Lux

This Saturday 28th February 2015, The King's Singers will be hosting a Google Hangout on the topic of Programming a Concert. Live with David Hurley and Chris Bruerton from Salt Lake City, UT, USA. 10:00 KS Time | 09:00 PST | 17:00 GMT Concerts can be tricky things. How do you go about choosing the right repertoire for your audience? How do you construct a sequence

Voting for Classic FM's annual Hall on Fame closes on 28th February; this is your last chance to vote for your favourite pieces of classical music. Here are some stats about choral music in the Hall of Fame 2014. Only 8 a cappella pieces in the top 100 Only just over 10% of the top 300 was choral The highest choral work by Bach was at

This Wednesday 25th February The King's Singers are performing the world premiere of a new a cappella work by Jake Heggie, Stop this day and night with me, as part of the ACDA National Conference in Salt Lake City. Below Jake discusses how this piece came to be. "A couple years ago, I was invited to compose the Raymond Brock Commission for the ACDA convention with a request

Eric Whitacre is one of the most popular and widely performed choral composers of our time and will be joining The King's Singers on their Summer School this 6 to 11 July 2015. For those attending the Summer School, or are still considering applying, this will be an amazing opportunity to hear from the composer himself and work with him on two of his most well-known pieces, Sleep and

The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, under the direction of maestro Gustavo Dudamel, will perform Eric Whitacre's Equus and Her Sacred Spirit Soars at the Hollywood Bowl in July 2015 alongside Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. For the opportunity to be there and hear the performance, visit the Hollywood Bowl website.

Eric Whitacre will be holding an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit this Sunday 15th at 8pm GMT. The discussion is open to anyone with a Reddit account (free to sign up) and provides the opportunity to ask Eric about the process of composition and his new orchestral piece Deep Field which will premiere with the Minnesota Orchestra & Minnesota Chorale in May 2015.

This evening The King's Singers will be performing in Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN. This wonderful concert of choral favourites & classic love songs, is in support of the Park Nicollet Frauenshuh Cancer Center. This performance means a great deal to the group as they dedicate it to their dear friends, Jerry and Cathie Fisher. Listen to The King's Singers' recent interview with John Birge, Minnesota Public Radio, to learn more about

While on their current North American tour, The King's Singers will be meeting up with some former members of the group, including composer, arranger and performer, Philip Lawson. They are delighted to be performing a piece written specially for them and the Illinois Wesleyan University Collegiate Choir, by Philip at Bloomington, IL on Thursday 19 February 19:30. This occasion is of particular note as it falls on his birthday! Here Philip Lawson