"Whitacre is that rare thing, a modern composer who is both popular and original"
- The Daily Telegraph, London

Eric has inspired millions as composer, conductor, innovator, broadcaster and charismatic public speaker. His compositions rank among the most popular and frequently performed of the early 21st century, their reach broadened since 2010 by the extraordinary success of his online Virtual Choir project. Light & Gold, his first album as composer and conductor, won the 2012 Grammy® Award for Best Choral Recording and instantly topped the US and UK classical album charts.

Born in Nevada, he discovered a passion for choral music while studying at UNLV and he began composing soon after. He went on to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York under John Corigliano. Many of his choral compositions, Cloudburst, Lux Aurumque and Sleep among them, have entered the standard choral repertoire and his orchestral music has been performed by some of the world’s most distinguished orchestras both sides of the Atlantic. Eric is currently Composer-in-Residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK.

A distinguished speaker, Eric has been invited to address the UN Leaders Programme, give the closing plenary at Davos World Economic Forum and to speak for UNICEF and Google among others. He has appeared twice on the main stage at the global TED conference in Long Beach CA, earning standing ovations on both occasions. Recent Virtual Choir projects include ‘Glow’ written for the Winter Dreams holiday show at Disneyland© Adventure California and the Virtual Youth Choir, in association with UNICEF, which premiered at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Broadcast live to 119 countries worldwide, Eric made his iTunes Festival debut with his professional choir in 2014, inviting multi award-winning composer and conductor Hans Zimmer to join him on stage. The performance was consequently released as a live album. Eric returned to the Minnesota Orchestra for a second residency in 2015 culminating in three performances at Orchestra Hall.


I am the director of bands and choirs at Southwestern Jr./Sr. High School in Shelby County, Indiana. I arrange and write original music for my concert bands, marching band, and choirs to perform. I have arranged and taught percussion music for marching bands in Central Indiana since 2009, and have been composing original music for marching percussion ensemble, marching band, and concert band since 2012. Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing any of my pieces.

I perform drums and percussion with the acoustic jazz/blues/rock quintet Doghouse Grove, rock/blues quartet Twisted Knobs, the Indianapolis Symphonic Band, and the Holy Cross Orchestra.

I formerly held the position of director of bands at Muncie Northside Middle School and the assistant band director and director of percussion at Muncie Central High School.

Please note that some of the pieces posted here are works in progress.

Los Angeles Children's Chorus is a place where young people come to do the extraordinary. From ages 6-18, children from across greater Los Angeles gather together to become world-class singers through hard work, dedication and passion.

I am an eclectic composer who writes with a postmodern mischievousness: my pieces can be comedic/ironic, simple/complex, or humble/reverent. My recent projects have taken a turn toward turn towards the sweeter side, exploring a consonant adiatonicism.

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The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus is a professional, non-profit children's choir representing singers grades 1-12 from around the Florida's First Coast area. Our mission is to provide a high-quality, choral music education for children of diverse backgrounds, fostering teamwork, self-discipline, accomplishment and pride while filling an important cultural need in the community and sharing the beauty of the choral art form through artistically excellent performances.

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