Ēriks Ešenvalds is one of the most sought-after composers working today with a busy commission schedule. Performances of his music are heard on every continent and his works are widely recorded. Ēriks is a popular public speaker, which he often combines with leading masterclasses and conducting.

Born in Priekule, Latvia in 1977, Ēriks is a graduate of the Latvian Academy of Music where he today heads the Department of Composition. He was a member of the acclaimed State Choir Latvija, the largest professional choir in the Baltics. He was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Ēriks lives near Riga and is married with four children.

His music has been performed in major venues around the world including Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Hall Boston, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Sydney Opera House, Philharmonie Berlin, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall.

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 Chicago, A Shadow for the BBC Proms, Dreams Under Your Feet for the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Whispers on the Prairie Wind for the Utah Symphony and Utah Chamber Artists, St Luke Passion for the Latvian Radio Choir and Sinfonietta Riga, Visions of Arctic: Sea for the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, and the multimedia symphonies Nordic Light and Volcano Symphony. His opera The Immured was premiered at the Latvian National Opera in 2016 to great acclaim.

Ēriks’ music is widely recorded and has been released on labels such as Decca Classics, Delphian, Deutsche Grammophon, Hyperion, Naxos, Ondine, Pentatone, Signum, and Berlin Classics. To date, ten recordings are devoted exclusively to his work. His music appears on recordings from Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Polyphony with Britten Sinfonia, VOCES8, ORA Singers, The Crossing, Vasari Singers, Portland State Chamber Choir, Elīna Garanča with the Latvian Radio Choir, Latvian Radio Choir with Sinfonietta Riga, State Choir Latvija, Youth Choir Kamēr..., Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Iveta Apkalna with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the National Youth Choir of Scotland, Merton College Choir Oxford, Trinity College Choir Melbourne, University College Dublin Choral Scholars, Vocal Arts Ensemble of Sweden, Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University, South Dakota Chorale, Cantus, amongst others.

Podium Music is managing Ēriks Ešenvalds’ commissions and workshop schedule. Ēriks Ešenvalds is exclusively published by Musica Baltica, Riga, Latvia.