Only in Sleep - Ēriks Ešenvalds - Harmonium Choral Society

A Thousand Beautiful Things, June 2019
Under the direction of Dr. Anne J. Matlack
Harmonium Choral Society
Grace Episcopal Church, Madison, New Jersey
Solo: Kiera Chiarino

Ēriks Ešenvalds, born in Riga, Latvia, is one of the most sought-after choral composers working today. He studied at the Latvian Baptist Theological Seminary (1995-97) before obtaining a master’s degree in composition (2004) from the Latvian Academy of Music. From 2002 to 2011, he was a member of the State Choir Latvija. In 2011, he was awarded the two-year position of Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Multiple awards for his work include the Latvian Great Music Prize (2005 &
2007), the Copyright Award in 2006, and “The Year's New-Composer Discovery” of the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2010, the same year he was nominated for the British Composer Award. Recordings of his choral music won the Latvian Music Records Award in both 2011 and 2014. His works have been performed internationally. Only in Sleep sets a nostalgic soprano solo over sumptuous added-tone chords in divisi choir, for a work of surprising
intimacy and beauty.

Program notes: http://www.harmonium.org/s/A-1000-Bea...
Ēriks Ešenvalds: https://www.eriksesenvalds.com/
Video production: http://www.frsprod.com/home/

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