Erica MacLeod

Erica MacLeod is a British composer based in the San Francisco bay area. She uses walls of sound and colourful  gestures with an array of instruments and digital media.

Erica is a multiplatform composer, working frequently with dancers and film makers to create a more immersive and inclusive art form.

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Her work has included both composition, conducting and arranging, as well as much piano playing.

She is a recent graduate from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she gained a Bachelor of Music in Composition in the studio of John Ashton Thomas, and was awarded the Trinity College of Music Trust Silver Medal for Composition in 2016/17 and 2017/18.

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Erica is now completing a Master of Music degree in Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the studio of Grammy nominated composer Mason Bates. During her first year at SFCM, Erica became one of the founding members of Mouthscape, a contemporary choir that reads and performs works by faculty, alumni and current students of the Conservatory.

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Her work has been performed across the UK and internationally, including venues such as the Southbank Centre and the artsdepot (London). As an orchestrator, Erica assisted composer and curator Dominic Murcott in his work transcribing Nancarrow studies for player piano. These were performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York by Alarm Will Sound as part of the Anywhere in Time: Nancarrow festival.

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She is also a founding member and composer for Figure+Phrase, a dance film collective which aims to create groundbreaking new work through the combination of live action animation film making, music and dance.

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