With about 10 hours to go until deadline, the servers were placed under tremendous stress, making it increasingly difficult for singers to successfully record their part. After much discussion a decision was made to disable the streaming video recording tool for the remainder of the submission period. The team then supported the community by helping them switch to the file upload method.
In addition to the Support Team, a number of members from within the community jumped in to help, upholding a great tradition in the VC. Support Team members stayed online into the early hours of June 11, making sure every person who wished to be included had been given a fair chance. In the 24 hours following the choir deadline, efforts were made to circle back and assist those who were struggling to submit their videos when the clock struck midnight.
The bulk of the audio and video was sent to London on 1TB hard drives, with the audio portion alone measuring GB in size! Craig Jenkins and his team had the epic task of cleaning, editing and mixing all the individual audio tracks. Producer Chris Elms then mixed everything into one track and combined it with the electronica track created by famed British composer and producer, Guy Sigsworth.
Grammy Award winning soprano, Hila Plitmann, recorded a rehearsal track for the solo part, inspiring more than passionate women to submit solo auditions over a period of five days.
Eric and Guy worked through each audition, selecting eight soloists who were added to the final mix of choir and electronica. Hila later recorded her own solo video for inclusion in the film.
The final, mastered audio was then synced with the video. After months of effort by thousands, Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise was born. As it is with all creative projects of this nature, it takes the efforts of many to achieve the final goal. The Virtual Choir thrives because so many people believe in its purpose. Although it begins in the mind of one man, it lives in the hearts and minds of many.
The Los Angeles Times call her a performer with " tremendous vocal and physical grace ". Born and raised in Jerusalem, Hila received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees with high honours from the Juilliard School of Music, and has been awarded the coveted Sony ES Prize for her outstanding contribution to vocal arts.
Both her parents are musicians and choir teachers who always provided opportunities for she and her equally-gifted brother to participate in various all-state and national choir experiences.
Claire credits her parents for her musical passion. Her highest goals in life are to inspire and help people as much as she can and to make the world a little bit brighter through the power of music. She has been singing since she was a small child, but never thought music would have an impact on her life the way it does today.
She decided to pursue music as a career after hearing Eric Whitacre's 'Lux Arumque' while in high school, and she was completely stunned by the unearthly qualities of his compositions. From that moment on she believed if Whitacre could write gorgeous music like that, she could too.
Her life's goal is to be a singer, composer and conductor. All three experiences further confirmed her passion for music. Music is the love of Joyceline's life; from the psychedelic rock of Jimi Hendrix to the dazzling impressionistic sounds of Debussy, music is what she does, who she is and what she will be until the day she dies. She is very honoured and ecstatic to have been chosen, along with the other talented ladies, for one of the VC4 solos.
She plans to teach middle school English after receiving her degree. She first started singing when she was very young, around the age of three, and the first song she sang was 'My Heart Will Go On. Marina also plays the piano, Irish tin whistle and a bit of guitar. As a self-taught musician she is not able to read music and has not had formal vocal training. Using the Tumblr social media web site, she first discovered Eric Whitacre's music around the time Virtual Choir 2 'Sleep' premiered.
She was incredibly impressed and immediately decided she wanted to be part of the Virtual Choir. She has enjoyed meeting many lovely and talented people in the Eric Whitacre Community Forum and the experience has truly made her feel like she belongs to a group. In the Virtual Choir, no one is forgotten or left behind. The beautiful spirit of that sentiment makes her proud to be part of the VC. She grew up in a family of music educators and her father is a choral conductor. Lauren participated in choir throughout her years at Midway High School and learned about the Virtual Choir from her choir directors, Jeff and Jannifer Rice.
After growing up listening to Eric Whitacre's music, Lauren has found having the opportunity to participate in the Virtual Choir as an incredible experience. She can't imagine life without music and has seen firsthand the amazing power it has to bring people together. Lauren is so very proud and excited to be a part of something that unites people around the world through beautiful music. Tresa Ann Davis currently resides in Lake, Ohio where she runs a private music studio teaching piano and voice.
She also is the music director for her church. Classically trained in voice and piano beginning at the age of seven, music has always been a part of her life as she became involved in many music-related events and performances through the years. Most recently, she was chosen through audition to sing live with several members of the Virtual Choir in a 'Sing with Eric' concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City, which was produced by Distinguished Concerts International.
Discovering the Virtual Choir shortly after the release of VC1, she decided to become involved. After her submission to Virtual Choir 2: 'Sleep,' she began incorporating the Virtual Choir into her vocal program, offering the opportunity to students and assisting them with their video submissions. Born into a family of music teachers, Nikki began her musical training at 4 and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in voice performance.
Nikki was an auditioned participant in the Westminster Choir College Summer Workshop studying choral music and conducting in Florence, Italy with Joe Miller and in she was an auditioned singer for the first Northwestern Summer Music Institute with Steven Smith. She serves on the management team for the group, working closely with director and mentor Warren Cook. Nikki and Philip also have been cast members in Greenville Shakespeare Company productions, directed by Jeffrey Stegall.
Nikki has been a featured soloist in many choral concerts and recordings and has won several awards at the National Association of Teachers in Singing competitions for classical and musical theatre. She teaches violin and voice, coaches high school choirs, and adjudicates choirs and singers regularly in the southeastern US. She is training to be a haematologist and has many years of hard work ahead of her before she will achieve that goal.
Throughout her career she cannot remember a time when she has not immersed herself in music as a means for creativity, expression and solace. Wei was born in Beijing, China but moved to Sydney, Australia when she was four years old. Her parents lived through the turmoil of the Tiananmen Square massacre and subsequently emigrated to an ethnically diverse country with a young Democratic culture that was a major departure from their Communist upbringing.
As an impossibly shy seven-year-old, a piano was the first thing Wei requested from her parents. In the ensuing years music became the way she learned to communicate with the world. She also has held lead and ensemble roles in a number of operas and musicals. She stumbled upon his website the day he posted Britlin Losee's version of 'Sleep. Since then she has been a singer in each of Eric's Virtual Choirs.
Wei believes that what unites medicine and music, her two great passions in life, is a desire to enrich the lives of others through empathic communication. To her the Virtual Choir is a powerful statement of both unity and diversity through universal communication on a global scale, and she is very proud to be a small part of it. Performing Eric's music makes her feel like a true citizen of the world. She has immersed herself in the arts for many years; taking part in band, choir, theatre, opera and other musical endeavors.
Every singer is credited in the luxurious full-color booklet of over pages. Order The Album Listen Online. Thousands of singers from countries took part in Virtual Choir 5: Deep Field to feature in the epic new film celebrating the greatest discovery of the Hubble Space Telescope: the Deep Field images.
The event was broadcast live on TV and webcast. VC4 was always destined to be a remix project, hence the choice of Fly to Paradise with soloists, choir and electronica.
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