Erik Lawrence
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Education
- D.M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara
- M.M. University of Missouri“Kansas City
- Artists Diploma The Royal Conservatory, The Glenn Gould School
- B.M. Rice University
Areas of Expertise
- Collaborative Keyboard
Background
I have experience in orchestral, chamber music, art song, operatic, and choral genres. I have given performances at the Canadian Opera Company™s Virtuoso Pianist Afternoon Concert Series, at the International Holland Music Sessions in Bergen, Netherlands, and performed Rachmaninoff™s Third Piano Concerto with the Lake Charles Symphony.
I completed my Doctoral studies in Collaborative Piano at UC Santa Barbara with Robert Koenig, where I also played for private voice lessons with Dr. Isabel Bayrakdarian and Marilyn Horne. I was keyboardist for the Santa Barbara Master Chorale, and an adjunct faculty member at Westmont College. I was orchestral keyboardist with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra during my studies as a TA at UM Kansas City where I earned a Master™s Degree with Dr. Robert Weirich. Before that, I received an Artist™s Diploma from the Glenn Gould School with pianist John O™Conor, and a Bachelor™s Degree from Rice University with Dr. Robert Roux in my hometown of Houston, Texas.
I currently work in the Charlotte area as a piano teacher, collaborator, composer, and recital lecturer.