Eric Whitacre

In 1969 Salvador Dali illustrated a limited edition volume of Alice in Wonderland. Totally breathtaking.

The above image is Who Stole the Tarts? Here is Advice From a Caterpillar:

You can see the rest of the collection here.

Last week, as part of a five day residency in Bilbao, I gave a talk and concert at the spectacular Guggenheim Museum. As part of the event we sent four different choirs to different parts of the museum and performed continued

Anyone near Nashville: hear Hila premiere a beautiful new work by Richard Danielpour tonight, Friday and Saturday. She’ll sing Mahler 4 as well!

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Totally, totally amazing: My Little Pony meets What If from my musical Paradise Lost.

In 1995, in my first semester at The Juilliard School, I had some very difficult lessons with composer David Diamond. Totally paralyzed me creatively. In desperation I tried writing a ‘serious’ string trio.

I thought I had lost the recording forever,... continued

The new disc from The King’s Singers and The Concordia College Choir is finally out, and it’s spectacular. Music of Bob Chilcott, Morten Lauridsen, and yours truly. Impeccably performed and recorded.

Here’s a nice ‘making of’... continued

A new setting of an Edgar Allan Poe poem for The King’s Singers, written as a prequel to The Stolen Child.

Here is The Stolen Child, which in performance immediately follows Alone:

Now... continued

I’m writing a fugue for the second movement of my “Songs of Immortality”, so I’m spending the morning studying different approaches to the form. My god the Bartok is gorgeous, so haunting and complex.

To be featured (along with several other of my pieces) on their upcoming album “High Flight.”

Another taste from the upcoming Decca album (to be released this Spring). Isn’t that church extraordinary? And once again, soprano Grace Davidson effortlessly glides to the heavens.

Almost finished recording the second Decca disc, which will be half choral, half orchestral. Here’s an iPhone video of The Eric Whitacre Singers performing the first few minutes of my new Alleluia. Woo hoo!

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