Profiles
James Erber
James Erber was born in London in 1951. Having gained music degrees at the Universities of Sussex and Nottingham he studied with Brian Ferneyhough at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg-im-Breisgau between 1981 and 82.
James Erber's music has been widely performed and broadcast. It includes Epitomaria-Glosaria-Commentaria for 25 solo strings (1981-84), the Traces cycle for solo flute (1991-2006), the string quartet An Allegory of Exile (1992-94), Das Buch Bahir (2004-05) for 9 instruments, The Death of the Kings (2007) for 11 instruments and Mox Nox (2009) for 5 instruments.
Ian Pace's recording of you done torn your playhouse down (1996) for piano and Kate Romano's recording of Strange Moments of Intimacy (1999-2001) for clarinet are currently available on CD. A recording by Frank Cox of le colonne d'Ercole (1996) for solo cello will soon be released on the Centaur label.