Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre (born January 2, 1970 in Reno , Nevada ) is an American composer and conductor . He composes for choirs , wind orchestras and electronic music .
Whitacre's compositional style, like Morten Lauridsen's, can be described as "neo- impressionistic ".
Life
At 18, Whitacre began singing in his college choir. He studied composition and choral conducting at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas , where he wrote Cloudburst and other pieces for choir and wind orchestra. Whitacre earned a Masters in Music from the Juilliard School of Music in New York City .
He became known worldwide through his work with virtual choirs , whose choral community is established via the Internet. Her pieces include u. a. Lux Aurumque , and Sleep , assembled from videos posted by Internet users.
Whitacre composed the piece Mermaids with Hans Zimmer and conducted some of the choral passages of the music for the film Pirates of the Caribbean .
Eric Whitacre was married to the soprano Hila Plitmann , has one son and lived with his family in London . The marriage was divorced in Los Angeles in 2018.
Whitacre is (together with Steven Bryant , Jonathan Newman and Jim Bonney) a founding member of the composers' association BCM International .
Works (selection)
Wind band
- Equus
- Ghost Train Triptych
- Ghost train
- At the station
- Motives revolution
- Godzilla Eats Las Vegas!
- Noisy Wheels of Joy
- October
- Sleep (transcription)
- Lux Aurumque (transcription)
- Cloudburst (transcription)
- Winter (transcription)
- Libertas Imperio (From Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings )
Choir
- Animal Crackers, Volume 1 (based on poems by Ogden Nash )
- The panther
- The Cow
- The Firefly
- Animal Crackers, Volume 2 (based on poems by Ogden Nash)
- The Canary
- The Eel
- The Kangaroo
- A Boy and A Girl (based on a poem by Octavio Paz )
- Cloudburst (based on a poem by Octavio Paz)
- Five Hebrew Love Songs (based on a poem by Hila Plitmann )
- Temuna
- Kala Kalla (Light Bride)
- Larov (Mostly)
- Eyze Sheleg! (What snow!)
- Rakut (Tenderness)
- Her Sacred Spirit Soars (based on a poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri )
- Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine (based on a libretto by Charles Anthony Silvestri)
- Little Birds (based on a poem by Octavio Paz)
- little tree (based on a poem by EE Cummings )
- Lux Aurumque (based on a poem by Edward Esch , translated into Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri)
- Nox Aurumque (based on a poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri)
- She Weeps Over Rahoon (based on a poem by James Joyce )
- Sleep
- The Seal Lullaby (based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling )
- The Stolen Child (based on a poem by William Butler Yeats )
- This Marriage (based on a poem by Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi )
- Three Flower Songs
- I Hide Myself (based on a poem by Emily Dickinson )
- With a Lily in Your Hand (based on a poem by Federico García Lorca )
- Go, Lovely Rose (based on a poem by Edmund Waller )
- Three Songs of Faith (based on poems by EE Cummings)
- i want to wade out
- hope, faith, life, love
- i thank You God for most this amazing day
- When David Heard (after 2 Sam 18.33 KJV / 19.1 [verse counting depends on the respective Bible translation])
- Water Night (based on a poem by Octavio Paz)
- Winter (based on a poem by Edward Esch)
String ensemble
- Lux Aurumque
- Water night
- A boy and a girl
- October
theatre
- Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
Film music
- Mermaids (Soundtrack for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides )
Individual evidence
- ↑ CD booklet from Cloudburst and other choral works , Hyperion Records CDA67543 http://www.hyperion-records.com/details/67543.asp
- ^ Angela Hall: Added-Tone Sonorities in the Choral Music of Eric Whitacre , St. Louis 2012, pp. 10f.
- ↑ Shane M. Lynch: Music Historiography and Useful Style Histories: The Case for the Evolving Era of Neo-Impressionism and its Influence on American Choral Music of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries , Washington 2008.
- ↑ "Biography" under archive link ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hyperion Records - Whitacre Biography , accessed April 15, 2010.
- ↑ Canadian TV April 2010. ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 2, 2010
- ↑ TED featured Virtual Choir
- ↑ Article from The Laurence Journal April 9, 2010
- ^ Lux Aurumque
- ↑ Sleep
- ↑ "Pirates of the Caribbean IV" on Eric Whitacre's website ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 29, 2012
- ↑ [1]
- ^ The Composers , BCM International, accessed February 5, 2017
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Whitacre, Eric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reno , Nevada |