Erica Johnson
Phone: (336)631-1543
Email: johnsone@ncarts.edu

Erica Johnson joins the faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts as Interim Kenan Professor of Organ for the academic year 2008-09. She has concertized across Europe, Canada, and the United States, playing a wide variety of repertoire and instruments, and her performances have been broadcast in Germany and America. As Instructor of Organ at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music from 2005-08, she designed and taught a course in organ literature. She also taught the graduate course in organ literature at the Eastman School of Music from 2006-2008. In May 2008, she completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School and was a recipient of the Performer’s Certificate.

 Erica Johnson has graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts, Oberlin College (Economics), the Oberlin Conservatory, and the New England Conservatory. She has studied the organ with Hans Davidsson, John Mueller, William Porter,  Haskell Thomson, and Harald Vogel and harpsichord with Carsten Lohff and William Porter. She was Organ Scholar and Summer Organist at the Harvard Memorial Church from 1999-2001. With the assistance of a generous grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians in 2001, she investigated historical keyboard  technique and instruments in Niedersachsen, Germany, for two years, studying at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. She is a prize winner of the 2002 the Norddeutsche Rundfunk International Organ Competition, the 2004 International Arp Schnitger Preis, and was named Westfield Scholar by the Westfield Center in 2004-05. She has been organist at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Rochester, NY since 2003.