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12. Distilling Nature into Music
Join internationally-acclaimed Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds in discovering how he distills nature into music. This inspiring workshop explores how stories, landscape, imagination, and human experience can be transformed into powerful choral expression.
Drawing on his distinctive creative process and celebrated sound world, Ešenvalds will share practical insights into how the combination of his music and his approach to performing it shapes musical ideas, unlocks imagination, and creates flow, colour, and atmosphere.
Ēriks Ešenvalds
Ēriks Ešenvalds (he/him) is amongst the most sought-after composers working today. Widely performed and recorded, his works span choral, orchestral, stage, and film. Ešenvalds is a popular speaker, which he often combines with leading masterclasses and conducting.
Ešenvalds studied at the Latvian Academy of Music, where he now teaches. He was a member of the Latvian State Choir, and Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge.
His music has been performed at many notable venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Concertgebouw, the Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, Gewandhaus, NCPA Beijing, Tokyo Opera City, and Sydney Opera House.
Amongst his recent highlights are the US and Swiss premieres of his organ concerto Voice of the Ocean with Iveta Apkalna and musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, performances of Passion and Resurrection by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Choirs and the Slovenian Philharmonic, Clouds by the Wiener Symphoniker, Fanfare by the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, as well as Stars at the BBC Proms and In paradisum at the Grant Park Music Festival.
Podium Music manages Ešenvalds’ commission and workshop schedule. He is exclusively published by Musica Baltica.
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Age
No limit
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Chorus Type
Mixed
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Lenght
4 days
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Level
B - for good sight readers and singers who come prepared