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Biography
Based in New York City, Erin Rogers is a Canadian-American saxophonist, composer, and improviser dedicated to new and experimental music. Named a “rising star” (Broadway World), her “decidedly future-oriented” music has been described as “whimsical, theatrical” (Brooklyn Vegan), “radical and refreshing” (Vital Weekly) and “a richly expressive display of stentorian brilliance” (The Wire Magazine). Her work ranges from chamber music performance to solo experimental improvisation to individual and collaborative compositions that incorporate live electronics, theatre, and text. Rogers' music has been performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Roulette Intermedium, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), Celebrity Series (Boston), MATA Festival, Ecstatic Festival at Merkin Hall, Prototype Festival, wasteLAnd (LA), Winspear Centre (Edmonton), Resonanzraum (Germany), French Quarter Festival (New Orleans), Gardner Museum (Boston), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), and NyMusikk Bergen (Norway). Rogers is co-artistic director of NYC-based performance ensembles: thingNY, New Thread Quartet, Hypercube, Popebama, and a member of LA-based Wild Up. “A consummate collaborator” (The New Yorker), Rogers crosses genres from music-theatre-to-dance-to-installation-to-silence in her work with Abilities Dance Boston, Orange Theatre, Panoply Performance Lab, Harvestworks, Experiments-in-Opera, Decoder, HERE Arts Center, and Music for Contemplation. She has received commissions and honors from The Barlow Endowment, Library of Congress, Robert Bielecki Foundation, Copland House, ASCAP, and the Jerome Foundation. Her music has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, musicworks magazine, and The Wire. An avid freelancer, Rogers has performed with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea, Wet Ink, and Copland House and can be heard on New Focus Recordings, New World Records, Tonus Vivus, Edition Wandelweiser, Relative Pitch, and Gold Bolus labels. Her recent solo album 2000 Miles was listed in Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp (October 2021). Rogers is a D'Addario Woodwinds and Conn-Selmer artist and Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Performance Program faculty member.
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