Flutist Erin Lesser has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout Canada, Europe and the USA. Ms. Lesser is actively involved in the contemporary music world, having worked with composers such as Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, Mario Davidovsky, Tristan Murail, and Steve Mackey. She has performed for Wet Ink Musics, Composers Concordance, and the Sounds French Festival, and has given the American premieres of works by Tristan Murail, Philippe Hurel and Heinz Holliger. Ms. Lesser has also appeared with the H.T. Chen Dance Company, the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, the SEM Ensemble and the Bronx Chamber and Opera Orchestras. In 2004, Erin was a featured rising star for Classic Chamber Concerts in Naples, Fl. This year she will return to play with members of the Philadelphia Piano Quartet.

Erin is a member of the Argento Chamber Ensemble, who performed at the NY Microtonal Festival in 2002 and 2003, and the International Spectral Music Conference in Istanbul, 2003. Their first CD (music by Tristan Murail) will be released by the AEON label in 2005. Ms. Lesser also performs in the flute/percussion duo Due East. They have appeared at Percussive Arts Society events in Tennessee and Ohio ,the 21st Century Schizoid Music Series in New York City, Music at Concordia and the Columbia Composers Series.

Ms. Lesser has participated in numerous summer festivals including the Woodwind Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the East-West International Music Academy in Altenburg, Germany, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. In 2002 and 2003, she attended the Yellow Barn Festival. Erin also performed with Linda Chesis and the Borromeo String Quartet at the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival. During the fall of 2002, Erin returned to the Banff Centre for the Arts, this time as a long-term Artist-in Residence.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Erin was the recipient of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada scholarship for 1999/2000, and won first prize at the Canadian Music Competition in 1999. Her performances have been broadcast on CBCs French radios Jeunes Artistes series and New Yorks WQXR. Ms. Lesser studied with Robert Cram at the University of Ottawa where she received her Bachelor of Music Degree (summa cum laude) in 1999. In 2001, she received her Master of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she was a student of Linda Chesis.