Based in New York City, Erin Rogers is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser dedicated to new and experimental music. Her music has been described as “radical and refreshing” (Vital Weekly), “crucial and fast-acting” (NY Times), and “a richly expressive display of stentorian brilliance” (The Wire). Her work ranges from chamber music to solo and collaborative composition, improvisation, live electronics and theatre. Rogers’ music has been performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Roulette, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), Celebrity Series (Boston), MATA Festival, Ecstatic Festival at Merkin Hall, Prototype Festival, Winspear Centre (Edmonton), Resonanzraum (Germany), 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 core member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and LA-based WildUp. “A consummate collaborator” (The New Yorker), Rogers crosses genres from music-theatre-to-dance-to-installation-to-silence in her work with Abilities Dance, Orange Theatre, L Collective, Harvestworks, Experiments-in-Opera, Decoder, 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. Rogers can be heard on New Focus Recordings, New World Records, Tonus Vivus, Edition Wandelweiser, Relative Pitch, Innova, Neuma, Infrequent Seams, New Amsterdam, and Gold Bolus labels. Her solo album “2000 Miles” was listed in Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp. Rogers is a D’Addario Woodwinds and Conn-Selmer artist, a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Teaching Artist, Co-Chair of the Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Performance Program with Matt Ward, and Co-Artistic Advisor of the Tactus Ensemble.
