Ēriks Ešenvalds

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Ēriks Ešenvalds is one of the most sought-after composers working today, with a busy commission schedule and performances of his music heard on every continent. Born in Priekule, Latvia in 1977, he studied at the Latvian Baptist Theological Seminary (1995–97) before obtaining his Master’s degree in composition (2004) from the Latvian Academy of Music under the tutelage of Selga Mence. He took master-classes with Michael Finnissy, Klaus Huber, Philippe Manoury, and Jonathan Harvey, amongst others. From 2002–11 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, University of Cambridge. He is married with four children and gives students his expertise as composition teacher at the Latvian Academy of Music. Ēriks Ešenvalds has won multiple awards for his work, including the Latvian Grand Music Award three times (2005, 2007, and 2015). The International Rostrum of Composers awarded him first prize in 2006 for his work The Legend of the Walled-in Woman. He was The Year’s New-Composer Discovery of the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2010. In 2018 he was bestowed Officer in the Order of the Three Stars, the highest state decoration of his home country Latvia, for merits in the field of culture. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

There Will Come Soft Rains

Translations

Ešenvalds: Northern Lights, Stars & Other Choral Works

Lux

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O Salutaris Hostia

Ēriks Ešenvalds: The Doors of Heaven

Spring Rain

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Stars

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From the Dim and Distant Past

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Sacred Songs of Life & Love

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At the Foot of the Sky, Vol. 1

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Eriks Esenvalds Passion and RESURRECTION/Rihards Dubra Te Deum

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