Eric Whitacre News

In 2016, after a visit from his long-time collaborator and friend, lyricist and poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, composer Eric Whitacre found a poem Silvestri had left for him sitting on his piano. Silvestri had lost his wife and soul mate to cancer 12 years previously, leaving him to bring up their two young children.

The MusicUNTOLD Orchestra and Los Angeles Master Chorale present the West Coast premiere of American composer Roy Harris’ Bicentennial Symphony.

Graduate Singers – known to their audience as Grads – are thrilled to present In Good Company, their first concert for the 2022 season.

Join Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' acclaimed Chamber Singers for a heavenly afternoon of soul-enriching music, in the majestic surrounds of Australia's oldest heritage-listed cathedral.

Among the tech luminaries putting their musical innovations on full display at the 2022 NAMM Show this June are the minds behind JackTrip Labs, whose Virtual Studio lets musicians collaborate in real time from miles apart.

Interlochen Center for the Arts has unveiled the full lineup for its 2022 Interlochen Arts Festival with the announcement of nine additional performers.

Orlando Sings is one of Central Florida’s newest professional arts organizations and has already had an exciting and successful first season.  Led by Artistic and Executive Director Dr. Andrew Minear, Orlando Sings serves as an umbrella organization for a family of singing groups including two professional ensembles, the Orlando Sings Symphonic Chorus and the Solaria Singers. This young organization has already had a great start to its first season with full and sold-out houses for each of the three concerts they have presented as well as a successful, sold-out gala fundraiser.

The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts welcomes an assortment of shows, events and performances across all three theaters. 

The Grammy-nominated Pacific Chorale, led by Artistic Director Robert Istad, is holding auditions for singers in all sections – soprano, alto, tenor and bass – for entry in the ensemble's 2022-23 season.

 The Los Angeles Master Chorale, the country’s preeminent professional choir, will honor Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director, in celebration of his 20th anniversary season, at GALA 2022, on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

On March 11, Signum Classics will release the latest full-length album from Cantus: The COVID-19 Sessions. Recorded in March of 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The COVID-19 Sessions came together quickly as society began to shut down amidst the growing outbreak in the United States.  

The Many Faces of Love performances will take place Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 7:30 P.M. at First United Methodist Church.

The Arts at Ascension has announced a pair of concerts to celebrate “A Week of Love Music” for Valentine’s Day, featuring performances by the Women’s Orchestra of Arizona (WOA) and the Arizona Masterworks Chorale (AMC) at Ascension Lutheran Church, 7100 N. Mockingbird Lane in Paradise Valley. 

Orlando Sings is Central Florida's newest professional arts organization. Led by Artistic and Executive Director Dr. Andrew Minear, Orlando Sings serves as an umbrella organization for a family of singing groups including two professional ensembles: the Orlando Sings Symphonic Chorus and the Solaria Singers. 

Arizona Masterworks Chorale brings a concert of love and devotion with LOVE FROM SEA TO SEA, on Valentine's Day Weekend Saturday, February 12 at 7:30 PM at All Saints' Episcopal Church, 6300 N. Central Ave, Phoenix and Sunday, February 13 at 3:00 PM at Ascension Lutheran Church, 7100 North Mockingbird Lane, Paradise Valley.

FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present Nicholas Kaminski on January 12, 2022 at 7:00 pm. Nicholas Kaminski is a rising musical theatre composer/lyricist whose songs are profoundly funny, witty, and poignant.

FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present Nicholas Kaminski on January 12, 2022 at 7:00 pm. Nicholas Kaminski is a rising musical theatre composer/lyricist and performer whose songs are profoundly funny, witty, and poignant.

Programmed by long-standing Artistic & Music Director, Brett Weymark OAM, this richly diverse season traverses choral classics by Mozart, Bach, Haydn and Handel; the glorious colours of Puccini; living repertoire by Pēteris Vasks and Eric Whitacre; and six newly commissioned short works from local Sydney composers Jessica Wells, Aija Draguns, Tomas Parrish-Cheynoweth, Aiden Rosa, Maria Lopes, and Melbourne’s Stuart Greenbaum.

Ember Choral Arts, formerly known as Schola Cantorum on Hudson, founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, announces two holiday concerts titled Ember December.

Forget what you knew. With a bold ambition to reimagine how we experience and interact with the city itself, Sydney Festival's 2022 line-up – the first helmed by artistic director Olivia Ansell – is set to explode onto (and into) the city's parks, pools, streets, stages and screens this summer.