Biography
Within two years of its formation, Eric Whitacre Singers has established itself as one of the finest ensembles of our day. This professional choir draws in audiences of all age ranges, performing Monteverdi and Bach to Whitacre, Lauridsen and Britten. They received exceptional and unanimous praise from critics and won a GRAMMY® for Best Choral Performance in 2012 for their debut album, Light & Gold. Their second album, Water Night, went straight to no. 1 in the classical iTunes chart on the day of release and also features the London Symphony Orchestra, Hila Plitmann and Julian Lloyd Webber. The Eric Whitacre Singers have performed on national TV, live from the Royal Albert Hall and regularly record in Abbey Road Studio 1. The Eric Whitacre Singers can be seen in concert at major venues on both sides of the Atlantic in the coming year.
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Cadogan Hall, 1 February 2012
Eric Whitacre Singers’ next London concert will be at Cadogan Hall, 1st February 2012. They will be performing a programme of Inspirations, which will feature works from American composers who have both influenced and inspired Eric Whitacre’s compositions.
The programme includes Whitacre’s very first piece, Go, Lovely Rose, and one of his recent works Alleluia. The pieces on this programme represent the integration of music written by American composers who have set texts from a different culture, including Lauridsen’s infamous Six Fire Songs which are an intensely dramatic cycle, rich with symbolic imagery of flames, fire and passion.
News Archive
- Nov 01, 2011 at 1:25 pmVirtual Choir
- Oct 10, 2011 at 12:38 pm2nd album release on Decca
- Sep 29, 2011 at 6:33 pmRecording at Abbey Road
- May 12, 2011 at 10:44 amLive at the Classic Brit Awards
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