Title: Illuminations
Commission: 2016
Completed: 2018
Instrumentation: two marimbas
Premiere Location:  June 6, 2019 in Jacksonville, Florida
Premiere Ensemble: Escape Ten
Notes:

Eric Guinivan’s music has been performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia and has received notable honors, including three BMI Composer Awards, three ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and grants from Chamber Music America, the Theodore Presser Foundation, and Meet the Composer. Eric has received commissions from the New York Youth Symphony, Lake Union Civic Orchestra, ASCAP, the Society of Composers Inc., the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, and the Firebird Ensemble, among others. A Grammy-nominated percussionist, Eric was a founding member of the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet and has performed as soloist with New York Youth Symphony, Downey Symphony, and the USC Thornton Symphony. Eric founded and currently curates the website Composers Circle, which profiles a recent work by one composer every day. Eric holds degrees in composition and percussion from University of Southern California and Indiana University and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Composition at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.