Eric Whitacre

Congratulations to everyone involved. We did it!

This Sunday the 1st I’ll be giving a concert of my music in Carnegie Hall, conducting nearly 600 singers from all over the world. Living legend Morten Lauridsen will join me onstage, playing the piano on two of his compositions as I conduct. Epic. As far as I know, there are still tickets available. Saturday or… continued

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It’s the opening track on the new album. Woo hoo!

Decca has put together a lovely video in support of the new album. Lots of gorgeous shots of Cambridge, and of the recording sessions with the LSO and Eric Whitacre Singers.

While studying at Juilliard I entered a string orchestra transcription of my choral work Water Night in a student competition; the chosen pieces received a performance by the Juilliard Orchestra. Mine wasn’t chosen. Seventeen years later I get to conduct it with the LSO on an album called “Water Night”. Heh heh heh. ;-)

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Equus was originally written in 2000 for wind ensemble, and I distinctly remember spending hours and hours agonizing over the orchestration. I had a cinematic sound in my mind, but of course there are no strings in a wind ensemble, so I found myself trying everything I could think of to approximate a big Hollywood… continued

Here’s a preview of the first half of Goodnight Moon, featuring my wife Hila Plitmann singing with the London Symphony Orchestra. It will be released April 3rd on my new Decca album, Water Night. I’m making a choral version and am looking for commissioning members to join the consortium. Would love to have you or… continued

Photographer Mierswa-Kluska made this astonishing poster for the Berlin Philharmonic. Many more photos from his “inside the instrument” series here.

Woo hoo! Even more thrilling (and humbling) for me is that John Adams, one of my heroes, is on the same cover. The April issue will be on newsstands March 12, but you can download the digital version now. You can also hear part of my interview and the first five minutes of the Alleluia… continued