Eric Whitacre
Eric Edward Whitacre( born January2, 1970) is an American composer, conductor, and speaker known for his choral, orchestral, and wind ensemble music.
In March 2016, he was appointed as Los Angeles Master Chorale's first artist- in- residence at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Nilo Alcala
Nilo Alcala is a Filipino- American composer and 2019 The American Prize Winner in Composition.
He is the first Philippine- born composer to be commissioned by the Grammy- nominated Los Angeles Master Chorale, and also to receive the Aaron Copland House Residency Award.
Morten Lauridsen
Morten Johannes Lauridsen( born February 27, 1943) is an American composer.
A National Medal of Arts recipient( 2007), he was composer- in- residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale( 1994 – 2001) and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 40 years.
Paul Salamunovich
Paul Salamunovich KCSG (June 7, 1927April 3, 2014) was a Grammy-nominated, American conductor and educator.
He was the Music Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1991 to 2001 and its Music Director Emeritus from 2001 until his death in 2014.
He served as Director of Music at St. Charles Borromeo Church in North Hollywood, California, for 60 years between 1949 and 2009.
In addition, he held academic positions at a number of Southern California universities.
He was also a master clinician, having been invited to conduct just under 1000 festivals and workshops around the world including an unprecedented four consecutive ACDA national conventions—all with different groups.
He was acknowledged as an expert in Gregorian chant and has long been recognized for his contributions in the field of sacred music, most notably receiving a Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, the highest laity award from the papacy in 2013 and was appointed knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great from Pope Paul VI in 1969.
Los Angeles Master Chorale
The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a professional chorus in Los Angeles, California, and one the resident companies of both The Music Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
It was founded in 1964 by Roger Wagner to be one of the three original resident companies of the Music Center of Los Angeles County.
Grant Gershon has been its music director since 2001, replacing Paul Salamunovich.
The Master Chorale performs about ten times per year in its own season.
It has presented more than 450 concerts, including early choral music to contemporary compositions.
Noted for presenting numerous world, U.S. and West Coast premieres, the chorus has commissioned 24 and premiered 40 new works.
The Master Chorale regularly performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, both at the Music Center and at the Hollywood Bowl, with such leading conductors as Gustavo Dudamel, Esa- Pekka Salonen, Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas and Roger Norrington, among many others.
Notable guest conductors have included Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, Margaret Hillis, Robert Page and Richard Westenburg.
It served as the chorus for Los Angeles Opera during that organization's early years before it had established its own in- house chorus.
It also performs in community concerts throughout Southern California.
The Chorale originally performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, but since 2003 the group's principal concert venue has been Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Morten Lauridsen was its composer- in- residence from 1994 through 2001.
DakhaBrakha
DakhaBrakha is a Ukrainian folk quartet which combines the musical styles of several ethnic groups.
It was a winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize in 2009.
DakhaBrakha is a project of the DAKh Center for Contemporary Art, led by Vladyslav Troitskyi and born as a live theater music crew.
Troiskyi continues to be the band's producer.
Members of DakhaBrakha participate in the centre's other projects, notably in the all- female cabaret project" Dakh Daughters", as well as in the annual Gogolfest festival.
Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Los Angeles Children's Chorus( LACC) is a children's choral youth organisation based in Los Angeles.
LACC has appeared in more than 300 performances with such organizations as the Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
Since its founding in 1986, LACC has educated more than 1,200 young singers.
It includes 270 choristers in six ensembles with choristers from more than 60 communities across the greater Los Angeles area.
Members rehearse once or twice weekly, with weekly musicianship classes and performances with the Chorus.
Repertoire covers a spectrum of musical genres including established classical works, art songs, American jazz pieces and spirituals, and arrangements of folk songs from around the world.
Grant Gershon
Grant Gershon( born November 10, 1960) is an American conductor and pianist.
He is Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Resident Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera, member of the Board of Councillors for the USC Thornton School of Music and a member of the Chorus America Board of Directors.
Requiem (Rouse)
Requiem is a composition for solo baritone, children's choir, chorus, and orchestra by the American composer Christopher Rouse.
The piece was commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria for the 2003 bicentennial of the birth of French composer Hector Berlioz.
It was completed July 12, 2002 and premiered March 25, 2007 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, with the conductor Grant Gershon leading the Los Angeles Master Chorale and their orchestra, the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, and the baritone Sanford Sylvan.
Chanukah Suite
Chanukah Suite is an original chorale composition by Jewish composer Jason Robert Brown.
The work was debuted in December, 2005, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in two performances by the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Composed in three parts and lasting just over 8 minutes, the work is based on an innovative merging of traditional Hebrew songs with up- tempo rock and roll rhythms and harmonic fanfares.

Question: Are Dakhabrakha and Los Angeles Master Chorale from the same country?
Answer: no