The Mexican-born Spanish composer and violinist Erika has received several grants and prizes, including the Eighth International Jurgenson Competition in Moscow, the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Music in Austria, the TACTUS in Belgium, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2017 National Composers Intensive, The Henfrey Prize for Composition and the Mapleton-Bree Prize in England. Recent commissions include works written for ELISION ensemble, The Curious Chamber Players, Sarah Maria Sun, Philippe Graffin, Sigma Project Quartet, ALEPH Guitar Quartet, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Her performance career has seen her collaborate with various ensembles and orchestras in Mexico, Brussels, and Oxford. She has participated in ManiFeste the academy at IRCAM, and was a fellow of the Prototype VI program at Royaumont in Paris. In addition to her compositional and performance work, her teaching experience spans over a decade, during which she has taught musical analysis, composition, and violin. She has also been a guest lecturer at various universities. Erika holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and is a member of the National System of Art Creators in Mexico. She is a curator of The World’s Music at Oxford, a project based at the University of Oxford that blends research into global music with live performance.
Erika – Violin teacher
