Erik L.

Erik holds his BA in Music Education, with a concentration in harpsichord. His teachers include Gwendolyn Toth and Kenneth Hamrick. Originally a percussionist, he studied with Mitch Erwin and Barry Centanni.  Erik researches, collects, and performs popular music from America and England during the last quarter of the 18th century. Also a researcher of Revolutionary War military music, he is the main contributor and co-author of Military Music of the American Revolution, which is now used by the West Point Band, and various living history groups.

Erik has experience teaching music in private and public schools and has also worked at Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, assisting with educational programs from fourth grade student field trips to Army staff tours and demonstrations.  He constructed the site’s reproduction clothing for the interpretive staff, helped care for a colonial garden, and demonstrated eighteenth century music and crafts.