Eric Malmquist lives, performs, and composes in Chicago, Illinois. His music draws equally from both modern styles, especially minimalism and post-modernism, and the influence of historical themes and early music. He is a founding member of the Chicago-based Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles (SEMC) New Music Ensemble, and the founder of S O N G (Singers On New Ground), a group dedicated to contemporary American art song. Eric was selected to be a Composer Fellow in the first-ever composer’s workshop at the Seasons Music Festival in Yakima, Washington in October 2008. While there, he won the Seasons Festival Orchestral Composition Prize, and his orchestral work Adventus was premiered by the Yakima Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Brooke Creswell. He has also had pieces commissioned by the Newberry Consort, Accessible Contemporary Music, the Wicker Park Choral Singers, and Homeroom Chicago. His one-act opera Zoe had its concert premiere in April 2009 by Robert Katkov-Trevino and the Millennium Chamber Players.
