Eric Lamb

 

 

"..agility and a buttery tone.“ - New York Times, May 2014

 

"...tonal beauty and exacting technique.." - New York Times, September 2012

 

"...agile" - Washington Post,  May 2012

 

Flutist Eric Lamb is in demand internationally as a soloist, recitalist, concert curator and chamber musician. Eric moves effortlessly between genres and styles and is considered to be one of the most aesthetically diverse and flexible musicians of his generation.

 

As a champion of contemporary music, he has premiered over 200 works for flute and continues to collaborate with some of the most important composers, performers and conductors of our time.

 

Eric has performed with a long list of the world’s most important orchestras and ensembles including the Orchester Wiener Akademie, Ensemble Reconsil, the HR Radio Orchestra Frankfurt, Chamber Opera Orchestra of Frankfurt, the City of Birmingham Orchestra, the Slee Sinfonietta, Ensemble Labortorium Basel, ASKO/Schönberg Ensemble, Ensemble Recherche, and American Contemporary Music Ensemble.

 

He has been invited to perform at festivals in Darmstadt, Graz, Salzburg, Lockenhaus, Acht Brücken in Cologne, Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Heidelberg Spring Festival, to name but a few. For seven years Eric performed extensively as a core member of the New York/Chicago based International Contemporary Ensemble - ICE. He is now co-founder and member of the Vienna based group, ensemble paladino.

 

His career as a recording artist includes 10 recordings with the International Contemporary Ensemble. These recordings are all held as benchmark recordings and include works by John Adams, Iannis Xenakis, Matthias Pintscher and several young leading composers of our generation. Eric now records extensively as a soloist and chamber musician. Most recently he released his debut solo recording of the complete caprices and other solo works of Johann Joachim Quantz for paladino music.

 

Eric completed studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt am Main and the Sculoa di Musica di Fiesole, Italy. His teachers include Michel Debost, Thaddeus Watson, Chiara Tonelli and Vicens Prats. 

 

Eric is an Altus performing artist.