ALICIA E. - About

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Alicia Erlandson (b.2004) is a visual artist and composer from Detroit, Michigan, currently based in New York City. She is a proud member of the Mosaic Composers Collective.

Alicia started playing flute at age ten, spending much of her life performing in wind, marching, and pit bands before learning to write music during the early stages of the covid-19 quarantine. She finds most of her inspiration in brief research stints about phenomena in the natural world, wanting to use sound to illustrate them in a way that is fluid, engaging, and connects them to our emotional experiences. She hopes to find sounds that are sparse, yet also deeply textured, and that listening to her music feels like watching a bird fly past your window; fleeting, colorful, and grounding. Audiences have described her work as “intimate” and “refreshing, like a granny smith apple”.

Alicia was recently commissioned by Composers Now for their Second Stage Initiative (2024) and she was a recipient of the G. Schirmer Prize for Luna Lab (2022). Her work has also been featured in the MATA Jr., Wildflower, and Great Plains Composers festivals. She is currently pursuing a B.M. in Music Composition at The New School with Kamala Sankaram.