This session provides musicians, directors and educators with a chance to discuss music-making, composition and careers in the music business with Grammy-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. Eric will open the session with a short presentation sharing life lessons he’s learned throughout the first three decades of his professional career followed by an opportunity for audience members to pose their questions and continue the conversation.
Eric Whitacre
- Biographical Information
Grammy Award-winning composer
and conductor, Eric Whitacre, is among today’s most popular musicians. His
works are programmed worldwide and his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have
united singers from more than 145 countries over more than a decade. A graduate
of Juilliard School of Music, Eric completed his second term as Artist in
Residence with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 2020 having served five years
as Composer in Residence at the University of Cambridge. Eric is proud to be a
Yamaha Artist.
His long-form work The
Sacred Veil, a profound meditation on love, life and loss, was
premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and released on Signum Records in
2020. His recent collaboration with Spitfire Audio resulted in a trail-blazing
vocal sample library, became an instant best-seller and is used by composers
the world-over. In 2021, Eric launches the Virtual School with its
first course “The Beautiful Mess: Masterclass in Composition and Creativity”.