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 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, the Chicago Composers Orchestra, Accessible Contemporary Music and Palomar, the Wicker Park Choral Singers, VOX 3 and Homeroom Chicago. His music has also been performed live on Chicago’s classical radio station, WFMT. His one-act opera Zoe had its concert premiere in April 2009 by Robert Katkov-Trevino and the Millennium Chamber Players.
