RAYMOND ERICKSON is an internationally recognized Bach scholar and is one of America's most experienced teachers of historical performance practices, having taught the subject since the mid-1970s at Queens College's Aaron Copland School of Music (of which he was the founding Director) and CUNY's Doctoral Program in Music (where he still teaches part-time), as well as at Rutgers University and The Juilliard School. He brings to this work international experience as pianist (student of Margaretha Lohmann and Nadia Reisenberg), harpsichordist (student of Ralph Kirkpatrick and Albert Fuller), and music historian (Ph.D., Yale).

Erickson was harpsichord soloist in the first New York period-instrument performance of Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (NY Times: "brilliantly played") and a participant in the first American period-instrument recording of the complete Brandenburg Concertos (Smithsonian). For a quarter-century he performed regularly with Europe's and America's leading early music performers in the Aston Magna Festival in Great Barrington, MA, America's second oldest period-instrument music festival. He has performed in over thirty of the states in the continental USA, as well as in Germany, Austria, and Italy.  In 2014 he gave the first solo harpsichord recitals on major stages in Beijing and Wuhan, and has been invited back to Beijing and also to Shanghai for the 2017 season.

Full bio available at gc.cuny.edu
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