He graduated in 1997 and moved to Los Angeles and following the success of Ghost Train, he decided to become a full-time professional composer. [5][6] Whitacre’s first album as both composer and conductor on Decca/Universal, Light & Gold,[8] won a Grammy in 2012, and became the no. 1 Classical Album in the US and UK charts within a week of a release. [9] Eric’s second album, Water Night, was released on Decca in April 2012 and featured performances from his professional choir the Eric Whitacre Singers, the London Symphony Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber and Hila Plitmann.
Whitacre has written for the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Chanticleer, Julian Lloyd Webber, Philharmonia Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin and The King’s Singers, among others. His musical, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings,[10] won both the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Harold Arlen award and the Richard Rodgers Award, and earned 10 nominations at the Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards.
Whitacre also worked with film composer, Hans Zimmer, co-writing the Mermaid Theme for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. In 2011, Eric conducted the winning entries of the Abbey Road 80th Anniversary Anthem Competition, recording the London Symphony Orchestra and the Eric Whitacre Singers, in Abbey Road Studio 1. Whitacre’s Soaring Leap initiative is a dynamic one-day workshop where singers, conductors and composers read, rehearse and perform several of his works. [11]
The Essay on Composer Report
Composer Report There have been many extraordinary composers of music throughout history. Each composer has his or her own wonderful characteristics and abilities that have touched the special few, or the many peoples of the world. Three composers that have not been largely recognized but highly acclaimed for their music are Ron Nelson, Russell Alexander, and Eric Whitacre. The Carl Sandburg High ...
