Eric Whitacre

A composer best known for his choral music, Eric Whitacre has also written many wind band compositions and some electronic music. Since his first pieces appeared in the early 1990s, he has also presented works for orchestra, and his first opera, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, premiered in 2007. The 2010 "virtual choir" recording of his Lux Aurumque, featuring over a hundred singers from a dozen countries, became one of his best-known. His style is quite approachable and features trademark chords (sevenths and ninths, sometimes heard against a background of sustained seconds...