Hila Plitmann (born August 9,[1] 1973, in Jerusalem) is an operatic soprano specializing in the performance of new works. The rest of the “McPaycheck” went, as intended, to studies at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. On 12/05/2017 WHITACRE, ERIC filed a Family - Marriage Dissolution/Divorce court case against PLITMANN, HILA in Los Angeles County Superior Courts.

Eric gave a live webcast from the Kennedy Center in June 2014 and subsequently conducted a massed choir of 400 singers on the Mall, Washington D.C. to mark Flag Day and the bicentenary of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’. Verdi’s accessibility lives on through these communication tools. Whitacre credits Weiller with the inspiration that put the young composer on the musical path. The effect is ruminative, reminiscent of choral chant, and still beyond what our ears expect to hear; the music has nearly ideal purity of harmonic tone, but a vaguely distant, archaic, and exotic sound. Eric was honored with the prestigious Richard D. Colburn Award from the Colburn School in Los Angeles, 2020, joining previous honorees Esa-Pekka Salonen, Benjamin Millepied, Frank Gehry, Valery Gergiev, Elizabeth Segerstrom and Michael Tilson Thomas. It’s easy when you are close, when you love each other, and it’s easy to say the wrong thing.”. For all of the digital communications that dominate Whitacre and Plitmann’s lives, however, the two make it a priority to have one-on-one time on a regular basis. [28], Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, "Sleep", was released in April 2011 and involved more than 2,000 voices from 58 countries.[30]. . “Ever since I heard your song ‘Sleep,’ I have been addicted to your music.

“You should see her,” Whitacre beams. Over a period of ten years the project grew in numbers and in 2020 Virtual Choir 6: “Sing Gently” brought together 17,572 singers from 129 countries. Editors’ Notes In 2005, poet Charles Anthony (Tony) Silvestri lost his wife, Julie, to ovarian cancer. Over recent years, Eric has collaborated with British soul artist Laura Mvula, Annie Lennox, House of Cards composer Jeff Beal, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova and Norwegian singer-songwriter Marius Beck. To date, the Virtual Choirs have registered more than 60 million views. [35], Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of the Universe is a 4k film for IMAX, cinema, projection in concert with live orchestra and for screenings at arts and science events.

On the other side of the world, Plitmann was raised in a musical household. he had cowboy boots on. Its voyage into the sublime beauty and mystery of the universe is crowned by music from Virtual Choir’s fifth iteration, comprising 8,000 voices from 120 countries.

Many artists from around the world have recorded Eric’s original compositions, broadening his global audience and opening fresh perspectives on his music. “At some point we have to accept [that] this is our life: we are two performing artists and we love it.”. "[47] The work was premiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, in February 2019,[48] and recordings released in late August 2020. Finally, one place to get all the court documents we need. . The case status is Disposed - Other Disposed.

He suggested they “save electricity” by studying a recording of Debussy’s impressionistic—not to mention romantic—Pelléas et Mélisande together for a class on opera in the 20th-century. The Sacred Veil - a project led by Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri - was created following the passing of Charles wife, Julia in 2005. The text for The Sacred Veil include words written by his wife during her fight against terminal cancer, lyrics written by both Silvestri and Whitacre. Whitacre went on to earn his master's degree in Composition at the Juilliard Sch… "[20] Other critics, however, have described his style as "full of shimmering, shuddering, shifting harmonies that awaken the ear to a contemporary yet accessible voice".

Now hailed as the pioneer of Virtual Choirs, drawing large numbers of singers and using high production values in the films, Eric has long shared the beauty and value of the project as a means of creating something beautiful together. Altijd bloemen mijn vrouw! [13], From 1998 to 2017, Whitacre was married to Israeli singer Hila Plitmann. [citation needed] In November 2010, Whitacre conducted Côrdydd, a Cardiff-based mixed choir, and friends in a concert of his work at the BBC Hoddinott Hall in the Wales Millennium Centre. “I didn’t catch the signals early on,” explains Whitacre. Things will change when Esh begins school, but that’s a bridge Whitacre and Plitmann plan to cross when they get to it. He completed his second and final term as Artist in Residence with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 2020 following five years as Composer in Residence at the University of Cambridge (UK). Plitmann was born and raised in Jerusalem; Whitacre grew up in a small Nevada hamlet located one hour outside of Reno. Albeit Whitacre and Noroña were newcomers to writing an opera—especially a rave opera—they devoted two years to “stumbling in the dark,” as Whitacre puts it. They work regularly with British soul artist Laura Mvula, and featured at the iTunes Festival, broadcast to 119 countries, performing with Hans Zimmer, and at an experiential installation for Anya Hindmarch CBE in 2018. For the final lines of Rumi's poem, Whitacre takes a predictable but strangely moving approach.

I thought he was cute but, in a way, I wanted nothing to do with him.” Fifteen years later, I talk with Whitacre and Plitmann via Skype from their temporary home at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, where Whitacre is composer-in-residence and visiting fellow.

Interest in the newsletter grew rapidly and the demand for more information triggered the transformation into Classical Singer magazine. “Your life will change; that’s what they all tell you,” he nods. The Virtual Youth Choir, in association with UNICEF, launched at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.

He graduated in 1997 and moved to Los Angeles and following the success of "Ghost Train", he decided to become a full-time professional composer.[1][2]. The Judge overseeing this case is WEINTRAUB, DEBRE KATZ.

In 2001 Eric became the youngest recipient of the ACDA’s coveted Raymond C. Brock commission, an outstanding achievement for a composer who discovered classical music relatively late in life. It represents a journey towards the answer for many questions, including whether departed loved ones are truly gone, and how can we mourn those we have lost whilst still moving forward?

The words and music for “Sing Gently” were written especially for the Virtual Choir in April 2020 during the global pandemic.

Earlier Virtual Choir projects include ‘Glow’ written for the Winter Dreams holiday show at Disneyland© Adventure Park, California, and the Virtual Youth Choir, in association with UNICEF, which premiered at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Eric Whitacre is one of today’s most popular and frequently-performed composers. I was very much [an] extrovert, jumping on tables and performing.” Plitmann turned to singing after seeing several musicals and operas on family trips to London and joined the Ankor Children’s Choir. I’ve continued to love his approach to vocal harmony, his chord progressions, and his orchestral writing on subsequent albums as well. Whitacre composed for voices (as with most of his works), but selected a text from the 13th century Persian poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi. It’s touching to see this duo discuss the small details of their relationship, details that most couples—performers or not—work out on a daily basis. “In a way, [he] changed my life. Yet musicians often deprecate such personal offerings. I married the love of my life Laurence Servaes.

“It’s almost scary how he finds ways to connect to people, his fans, his audience,” says Plitmann, who has appeared on her husband’s popular YouTube channel to demonstrate pronunciation for Whitacre’s song cycle, Five Hebrew Love Songs—set to texts by Plitmann herself. He has received composition awards from the Barlow International Composition Competition, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the American Composers Forum. This website is designed and targeted for U.S. audiences and is governed by and operated in accordance with U.S. laws.

Wilmington The range of Eric’s work crosses conventional borders between different musical genres. Many of Eric’s works have entered the core choral and symphonic repertories and have become the subject of scholarly works and doctoral dissertations. He is also known for his "Virtual Choir" projects, bringing individual voices from around the globe together into an online choir.

For the rest of his time at UNLV, Whitacre “ferociously devoured” the school’s music library, listening to recordings while following along in scores.

[17] His work has been described as "weightless"[18] and as the "sort of music Vaughan Williams might have composed in the Cambridge branch of Dunkin' Donuts". 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 the stage for a new choral arrangement of ‘Time’. Beyond Paradise Lost, Plitmann and Whitacre have frequent collaborations as a singer-composer and singer-conductor couple (she appears on his latest CD, and his debut disc for Decca, Light and Gold). The film has been seen at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum (DC), Dolby Theatre (London), the World Science Festival (New York), Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles), the American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (Seattle) and in concert halls, science and music festival on both sides of the Atlantic.

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