Eric Whitacre guest curates The Space
Find out about award-winning composer and conductor, Eric Whitacre
Last updated 24th Jan 2022
Eric Whitacre is joining the Scala Radio family for a week as he becomes our latest Guest Curator of The Space! Across the week, listen from 10pm as Eric soothes our evenings with a selection of his favourite ‘late night’ music.
Get to know Eric Whitacre
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.
His compositions have been widely recorded and his debut album as a conductor on Universal, Light and Gold, went straight to the top of the charts, earning him a Grammy. As a guest conductor, he has drawn capacity audiences to concerts with many of the world’s leading orchestras and choirs in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and Buckingham Palace.
Eric has also worked with composers including Hans Zimmer, John Powell and Jeff Beal as well as British pop icons Laura Mvula, Imogen Heap and Annie Lennox.
Considered as the pioneer of Virtual Choirs, Eric created his first project as an experiment in social media and digital technology. Virtual Choir 1: Lux Aurumque was published in 2010 and featured 185 singers from 12 countries. Ten years on in 2020, Virtual Choir 6: Sing Gently – written for the Virtual Choir during the global pandemic that shook the world, COVID-19 – featured 17,562 singers from 129 countries.
Eric is now joining Scala Radio as a guest host of The Space all this week (Monday 24th-Friday 28th January 2022) where he will be easing us into the evening with his favourite ‘late night’ music from 10pm to 1am.