Archive for Eric Holtan
Celebrate Earth Day with Jake Runestad’s Earth Symphony
In celebration of Earth Day 2024 on April 22nd, we are offering an early opportunity to pre-order our upcoming release with True Concord Voices & Orchestra featuring Jake Runestad’s “Earth Symphony”. Earth Symphony is part of their album with director Eric Holtan and pianist Jeffrey Biegel, A Dream So Bright: Choral Music of Jake Runestad, which will be released on FRESH! From Reference Recordings this July. As part of the Earth Day celebrations, you can…
Arizona Daily Star Features Christmas With True Concord!
The Arizona Daily Star published a feature for True Concord Voices and Orchestra’s Christmas With True Concord recording! “True Concord knows how to do Christmas. With lush exquisite voices and sublime soulfully American interpretations, they take you beyond the cliche of “Jingle Bells” and “O Holy Night” to a singular somberly opening Mack Wilberg’s arrangement of “Away in a Manger.” The women’s voices, sans vibrato, deliciously replicate the sound of a children’s choir as the…
Eric Holtan Talks Christmas With True Concord on KVOI Tucson
Eric Holton joined the Bill Buckmaster Show on 1030 KVOI AM Radio in Tucson, Arizona this week to talk about Christmas With True Concord: Carols in the American Voice. Listen to the interview below and see the full episode from the Buckmaster Podcast at buckmastershow.com.
Reference Recordings Featured In Pacifica Tribune
Thanks to the Pacifica Tribune for the recent feature for RR, True Concord Voices & Orchestra and Stephen Paulus after the recent GRAMMY win for Paulus’s Prayers & Remembrances: This record is not Reference Recordings first Grammy (they received a Grammy in both 2011 and 2004), and it was not their first walk down the red carpet. This year’s Grammys were hosted at Staples Center in Los Angeles and the Reference Recording team, all dressed…
Stephen Paulus Prayers and Remembrances wins GRAMMY® Award!
We are pleased to announce that Stephen Paulus’ Prayers and Remembrances has won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition! Best Contemporary Classical CompositionPaulus: Prayers & RemembrancesStephen Paulus, composerTrack from: Paulus: Far In The Heavens The Stephen Paulus Family Accepts the GRAMMY Award Stephen Paulus (1949-2014) was hailed as “a bright, fluent inventor with a ready lyric gift” by The New Yorker. A prolific composer of over 500 works, he wrote for orchestra,…