Honors Alumnus, Pianist, Eric McElroy to perform at The Good Shepherd Center, Seattle

Contemporary music for solo piano (Frederic Rzewski, Ian Venables, Howard Skempton, John Joubert, and Ken Benshoof), Wayward Music Series.

American pianist and composer Eric McElroy has performed throughout the United States and Europe, garnering numerous awards at both state and national competitions. A committed advocate for lesser-known repertoire, Eric has given regional premieres of pieces by American and British composers, including John Ireland, Arnold Bax, William Baines, and Lord Berners. As a collaborative pianist he has performed in some of Europe’s most distinguished concert halls, notably the Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Birmingham Town Hall, Symphony Hall, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (BOZAR).​

In addition to presenting traditional programs, Eric has explored various alternatives to the standard concert format, and he has designed a number of themed lecture-recitals which explore the cultural and historical intersections of music with other fields such as history, literature, and poetry. Recent examples of this are his programs “Sounds of the American Piano” and “The Slaughter of the Times: English Piano Music and the First World War”, the latter of which was premiered at the Robert Graves Society annual conference at Oxford University (St. John’s College) in 2016. Eric’s wide-ranging interests in academia have led to several scholarly projects, and he is currently working in conjunction with the William Baines Estate to prepare selected works by English composer William Baines for publication in 2018.