The virtual choir was the idea of award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. Born in the USA on 2 January 1970, Whitacre (begin) studying music at the University of Nevada in 1988. He fell in love with Mozart's classical music when he sang for the university choir. (move) by the music, he said, "It was like seeing color for the first time." He graduated from university in 1995, and then received a master's degree in musical composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997. over the next 10 years, Whitacre's original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs singers.