Ēriks Ešenvalds

Ēriks 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, Birmingham Symphony Hall, The Concertgebouw, the Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, Gewandhaus, Musikverein, NCPA Beijing, Tokyo Opera City, and Sydney Opera House.

Ēriks’ large-scale premieres include Lakes Awake at Dawn for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, The Pleiades for the Grant Park Music Festival, A Shadow for the BBC Proms, Dreams Under Your Feet for the Gewandhaus, and the full-scale opera The Immured for the Latvian National Opera.

Amongst his choral works are The First Tears, Sun Dogs and Legend of the Walled-in Woman for the Latvian Radio Choir, Vineta for the Bavarian Radio Choir, and Seneca’s Zodiac for The Crossing, the frequently performed pieces Stars, O salutaris hostia, and Only in Sleep, and the New York Times-listed Earth Teach Me Quiet.