Jamie Erekson is a NYC-based composer, performer, and dramatist whose work ranges from a large-scale musical deconstruction of Shakespeare’s Richard II at Carnegie Hall, to a 12′x12′x6′ interactive kinetic sound sculpture, to a site-specific collaboration with Ballet West exploring redlining in Salt Lake City. His debut multimedia music-theatre piece, Paint My Eyes (100’), was heralded as “a strong piece of theater” with “marvelous” music (Warne, UTBA), and his opera, The Lost Children of Hamelin (105’), was reviewed as “captivating” (Giusti, Utah Lyric Opera) and “one of the most moving operas we’ve put on at BYU” (Babidge, The Juilliard School). His work has been showcased at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Columbia University, and he has received commissions, grants, or awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, Mannes School of Music, and Brigham Young University, among others. He is currently collaborating with his wife (intermedia artist Emily Erekson) on a tour of their award-winning interactive intermedia installation, was this the face, and on a new ballet for Ballet West.
A life-long singer and pianist, Erekson has had solo appearances at Lincoln Center, The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, and various performance venues throughout France, Italy, Germany, and Austria. His mentors include Darrell Babidge, Anna Clyne, Missy Mazzoli, and Eleanor Sokoloff, and he lives in Washington Heights with his wife and three children.