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Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, cellist, is an active soloist, chamber musician, and specialist in contemporary music. She has performed in premieres of solo and chamber works throughout the US, Central and South America, and Europe with appearances at New Music America, the Manca Festival in Nice, Ars Electronica in Linz, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Computer Music Festival in Zurich, Tanglewood, Aspen, and Ravinia festivals, and the San Francisco Symphony "New and Unusual Music" series. Ms. Kirkpatrick has had works written especially for her by major composers including Mel Powell, Alvin Lucier, Elliott Carter, and Morton Subotnick, with whom she has toured and recorded since 1981. Ms. Kirkpatrick is also solo cellist of the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and was principal cellist of the 1986 Ojai Festival Orchestra and the Bloch Festival Orchestra at Newport, Oregon. A founding member of the Ear Unit, she is on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts and the University of California at San Diego. Ms. Kirkpatrick has recorded for Nonesuch, Wergo, New Albion, Voyager, and Cold Blue records. |