Erin Busch is a composer and cellist residing in Philadelphia. She has been commissioned and performed by the Composers Conference, So Percussion, the Albany (NY) Symphony, Yarn/Wire, Quartet Iris, Pennsbury Middle Schools, the TAK Ensemble, the Amorsima Trio, Orchestra 2001, the Philadelphia Charter – A String Theory School, Matthew Levy of the PRISM Quartet, and Network for New Music, among others. She is a Cycle 16 Bahlast-Eeble fellow at the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music for the 2022–2023 season. Recent awards include being named the winner of the 2020 International Association of Women in Music (IAWM) Libby Larsen prize and the 2022 Festival Mujeres en la Música Nueva call for scores, and receiving an honorable mention from the Khemia Ensemble 2022 Commission Contest.

Named one of Yamaha’s 40 under 40 music educators, Temple University’s 30 under 30, and Philadelphia Magazine’s 2022 “Luminary Leader,” Erin is the Founder and Executive Director of Wildflower Composers (formerly known as the Young Women Composers Camp), a 501c3 nonprofit in Philadelphia that serves female, transgender, nonbinary, and genderqueer composers. Erin additionally serves as the Co-Founding Director of the Gabriela Ortiz Composing Studio, a nine-month virtual Artist Diploma offered by OAcademy.

As a cellist, Erin performs with local ensembles such as the Arcana New Music Ensemble, Symphony in C, and the Philly Pops. She has participated in several orchestral summer festivals, including New Music on the Point (as a composer-performer) in Vermont; the Pierre Monteux School in Maine; the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria; the Orchestra of the Americas Nordic-Baltic tour; and the Festival Napa Valley, where she was the principal cellist.

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