Erica Dicker | Violin
Erica Dicker works in a wide variety of settings, bridging the realms of notated and improvised music. Taking Auspices (Tubapede Records), her “knockout solo debut,” [Bandcamp Daily] features her own solo compositions for violin. She lends her distinctive voice to the Brandon Seabrook String Society, Blood Luxury, and her electro-acoustic trio Vaster Than Empires. A dedicated proponent of new music, Erica is a member of the commissioning horn-trio Kylwyria, Wavefield Ensemble, and serves as an educational ambassador for composer Anthony Braxton’s nonprofit Tri-Centric Foundation. She writes about and curates performances of Braxton’s work and gives lectures and master classes at conferences including SEAMUS (The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States), NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), and institutions such as Dartmouth College, New York University, University of Virginia, Wesleyan University, and the Manhattan School of Music. She served as associate concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony, held section positions in regional orchestras in the Midwestern US, Germany, and continues to perform with the Grand Rapids Symphony and the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Festival appearances include Bachakademie Stuttgart, Berlin Jazz Festival, Jantar Festival (Poland), Music Unlimited Wels (Austria), Ojai Music Festival, Skopje Jazz Festival (Macedonia), the Venice Biennale, and Warsaw Autumn Festival. Recent releases on which she appears can be found on Cantaloupe Music, Intakt Records, New Focus Recordings, Pi Recordings, and Tubapede Records. Erica holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Minnesota and her doctoral degree from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. She also attributes a significant part of her early musical education to the Illinois Wesleyan University college radio station 88.1 WESN (Radio to the Far Left) FM, reaching her in her hometown of Normal, Illinois.