Eric Whitacre

MAPA in association with Music Productions Ltd presents
Eric Whitacre in Concert

Saturday 13 April at 7:30pm
Robert Blackwood Hall

Eric Whitacre conductor
David Berlin cello
Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne
Monash Sinfonia

Concert Programme:
Lux Aurumque
Five Hebrew Love Songs
My true love hath my heart
Come Sweet Death
This Marriage
The Seal Lullaby
Animal Crackers Vols. 1 and 2
The Chelsea Carol
A Boy and a Girl
Water Night
The River Cam
Sleep

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Eric Whitacre Choral Workshop

Friday 12 April at 7.00pm
Robert Blackwood Hall

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We are delighted that Eric Whitacre will present a dynamic choral workshop at Monash University. In addition to the one hour music workshop, Eric will take questions from participants.

“Together we will read and rehearse two of my works for chorus.  We will explore the music, and will have a challenging and inspiring time.”  Eric Whitacre

About Eric Whitacre

Eric Whitacre is one of the most popular and performed composers of our time, a distinguished conductor, broadcaster and public speaker. His first album as both composer and conductor, Light & Gold, won a Grammy® in 2012, reaped unanimous five star reviews and became the No. 1 classical album in the US and UK charts within a week of release. His second album, Water Night, was released in April 2012 and debuted at No. 1 in the iTunes and Billboard classical chart.

His ground-breaking Virtual Choir, Lux Aurumque, received over a million views on YouTube in just 2 months (now 3 million), featuring 185 singers from 12 different countries. Virtual Choir 2.0, Sleep, was released in April 2011 and involved over 2,000 voices from 58 countries. Virtual Choir 3, Water Night, received 3,746 submissions from 73 countries and launched at Lincoln Center, New York in April 2012.

Many of Eric Whitacre's works have entered the standard choral and symphonic repertories and have become the subject of scholarly works and doctoral dissertations. Eric attended the Juilliard School (New York) and earned his Master of Music degree studying with Pulitzer Prize and Oscar-winning composer, John Corigliano. Eric has written for the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, BBC Proms, Chanticleer, Julian Lloyd Webber and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Berlin Rundfunkchor and The King’s Singers among others.

An exceptional orator, he was honoured to address the U.N. Leaders programme and the revered TED conference where he earned the first full standing ovation of the conference. In October 2012, Eric presented his Virtual Choir at the F.ounders conference, an annual private gathering for 150 of the world’s leading technology company founders, alongside a discussion with Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube. Eric has been invited to address the World Economic Conference, Davos, in January 2013, to lead a discussion on the role of arts in society and the impact of technology on the arts.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to see Eric Whitacre conducting his own works live at the Robert Blackwood Hall with Monash Sinfonia and the Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

Eric Whitacre Albums

Water Night
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In 2009, Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre began a simple experiment in social media, after a fan named Britlin Losee posted a YouTube video of herself singing Whitacre’s song “Sleep.” He liked it so much that he sent out a call to his online fans to purchase Polyphony‘s version of “Sleep,” record themselves singing and upload the finished result.
Thousands of people submitted videos and Scott Haines edited them together. The result impressed Whitacre so much so that he decided to move forward with the concept. This time, he recorded himself conducting “Lux Aurumque” and requested people submit videos of themselves singing along. Again, with the editing of Haines, a virtual choir came to life. The result proved as impressive as the first:
The most recent project Virtual Choir 3: “Water Night” received approximately 3,746 submissions from 73 countries. The 14-part piece was written by Whitacre in 1995. It is more complex than “Lux Aurumque” and “Sleep,” but Whitacre offered online master classes and seminars for people to learn the music and work on singing technique.
 
Light & Gold
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Whitacre recorded his debut Decca album ‘Light & Gold’ in London at the beginning of August with a choral group to include the Eric Whitacre Singers, and includes some of Whitacre’s best-loved choral works as well as three World Première recordings. This is the first time Whitacre has both recorded and conducted his own music.