Erica is a Worcester UK based composer and arranger. She grew up in York and alongside her A-levels, studied composition with John Stringer at the University of York.  Some of her early compositions were performed by renowned saxophonist Snake Davis. Erica then went on to study music at the University of Birmingham and specialised in composition with Vic Hoyland and Erik Oña. While at Birmingham, Erica had her work performed by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. She continues to compose choral and instrumental music and music for theatre.

 

Musicals

 

Never Land

Erica composed two full scale musicals alongside playwright Catherine McDonald. Never Land - A Peter Pan Musical was originally performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2005 and subsequently for Great Ormond Street Hospital's Peter Pan themed picnics in Kensington Gardens in 2005 and 2006. Erica and Catherine also appeared with the cast on ITV's Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway in February 2007, on which they raised £15,000 for GOSH and received acclaim from the show’s panel of celebrity millionaire judges, including Duncan Bannatyne and Jeffrey Archer. Never Land was later revised and performed at Abbeyfest, Merton Abbey Mills, London in 2008.

 

Blood From Stone

Erica and Catherine's second collaboration, Blood From Stone, was performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2007 and received a commendation in the MTM:UK Musical Theatre Matters awards that year.

 

Music for Plays

 

The Premature Burial

Little Earthquake

Mac, Birmingham 2006

Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton 2008

 

The Secrets of Thornfield Manor – an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

Through The Window Theatre

Brontë Society, Haworth. 2008

The Colourhouse Theatre, London 2009

 

Pride and Prejudice

The Crescent Theatre Company

Summer tour in the West Midlands 2012

 

Romeo and Juliet

The Crescent Theatre Company

Crescent Theatre 2013

 

The Witches

The Crescent Theatre Company

Crescent Theatre 2014

 

Choral

 

Erica composes and arranges for Sing it Loud, a community choir based in Leamington Spa. She was commissioned to compose a piece for The Crescent Theatre’s Wassail production in 2011 and has continued to write for the ensemble each year. She was also commissioned to contribute a piece for voice and piano (August 1914) for their World War 1 commemorative production, At the Going Down of the Sun in 2014.

 

Film

 

Erica composed the soundtrack for Fenceden’s short film It’ll All End in Tears, directed by David Houston and Lucy Amsden in 2010.

 

Weddings

 

Erica performs piano at private wedding events. Erica takes commissions for a specially composed piece and can produce a bespoke, handwritten score as a memento.

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Arrangements

 

Erica arranges choral and instrumental music, with a specialism in songs for community and school choirs. Please follow the link below, where you can see a list of her available pieces. Erica also takes commissions.

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Please contact Erica for more information