Composer, performer, teacher, and theorist Elizabeth Erickson grew up in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. She began her professional studies at the College of Wooster in Wooster,
Ohio, and continued them at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
where she received the Undergraduate Diploma and the Masters of Music, both in
composition.
Past teachers include violinist/violist Laura Bossert, violist Jennifer Allman, cellists Terry
King, Tom Kraines, Ravenna Helson, and Jane Hollander, composer-theorists Peter
Aldins, Paul Brust, John Morrison, and Jack Gallagher, and theorists Peter Evans, Judith
Ross, Peter Mowrey, and Jack Russell. In addition, Liz has studied chamber coaching
with Wayman Chin, string pedagogy with Clayton Hoener, and Dalcroze Eurythmics with
Lisa Parker, Adriana Ausch, Anne Farber, Ginny Latts, Louise Mathieu, Dawn Pratson,
and Melissa Tucker. She has been teaching for over a decade and accepts as students
both children and adults of all levels, backgrounds, and interests.
Liz has extensive music theory training, including sight-reading, both fixed and movable
"do" solfege, rhythm-reading, ear-training, both written and keyboard harmony, form and
analysis, and both 16th and 18th century counterpoint. While studying at the Longy
School of Music, she served as the Theory Department Teaching Assistant, teaching a
class of keyboard harmony and assisting undergraduate students with class material
and graduate students with preparations for their proficiency examinations. Liz is
currently doing research for her first music theory textbook, The Conceptual Evolution of
Music Theory: A Cumulative Understanding.
Liz has been playing cello for eighteen years and violin and viola for nine years, both solo
and orchestral, including gigging string trios and quartets, a competition-winning cello
quartet, audition-based orchestras, and musical theatre pit orchestras. She performs
her own new music as well as that of other modern composers and plays, composes,
and arranges for weddings and other events. Liz also plays folk-rock with Nils Erickson
and both performs and records with other bands and songwriters.
Wisconsin. She began her professional studies at the College of Wooster in Wooster,
Ohio, and continued them at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
where she received the Undergraduate Diploma and the Masters of Music, both in
composition.
Past teachers include violinist/violist Laura Bossert, violist Jennifer Allman, cellists Terry
King, Tom Kraines, Ravenna Helson, and Jane Hollander, composer-theorists Peter
Aldins, Paul Brust, John Morrison, and Jack Gallagher, and theorists Peter Evans, Judith
Ross, Peter Mowrey, and Jack Russell. In addition, Liz has studied chamber coaching
with Wayman Chin, string pedagogy with Clayton Hoener, and Dalcroze Eurythmics with
Lisa Parker, Adriana Ausch, Anne Farber, Ginny Latts, Louise Mathieu, Dawn Pratson,
and Melissa Tucker. She has been teaching for over a decade and accepts as students
both children and adults of all levels, backgrounds, and interests.
Liz has extensive music theory training, including sight-reading, both fixed and movable
"do" solfege, rhythm-reading, ear-training, both written and keyboard harmony, form and
analysis, and both 16th and 18th century counterpoint. While studying at the Longy
School of Music, she served as the Theory Department Teaching Assistant, teaching a
class of keyboard harmony and assisting undergraduate students with class material
and graduate students with preparations for their proficiency examinations. Liz is
currently doing research for her first music theory textbook, The Conceptual Evolution of
Music Theory: A Cumulative Understanding.
Liz has been playing cello for eighteen years and violin and viola for nine years, both solo
and orchestral, including gigging string trios and quartets, a competition-winning cello
quartet, audition-based orchestras, and musical theatre pit orchestras. She performs
her own new music as well as that of other modern composers and plays, composes,
and arranges for weddings and other events. Liz also plays folk-rock with Nils Erickson
and both performs and records with other bands and songwriters.
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Elizabeth J. K. Erickson - Teacher & Tutor