Erika's Introduction

posted by: Erika
topic: Introduction

Hi! My name is Erika and I'm a sophomore here at Westminster Choir College. I'm a double major in Music Education and Music Theater, with voice primary. Originally from Clifton Park, New York, I heard about Westminster through a good friend I had met through a summer music camp. My music teachers from home urged me to come take a look and audition and when I came here for the first time, I immediately felt at home.

Westminster is a great place because there is a wonderful community here. In such a small school, you can walk around campus and know people by name. Teachers remember you even when you took a class with them a year ago. And there are so many opportunities on our campus as well as over at the Lawrenceville campus to perform, be involved in student organizations, and really make a difference.

As for myself, I'm involved in all sorts of different things. I'm the Vice-President of our chapter of MENC (Music Educators National Conference) and I also work on the Programming Board to help plan fun events like Monte Carlo Night and Spring Fling. I study voice with Amy Zorn and have performed on campus with the Westminster Music Theater and Westminster Opera Theater. I also sing Alto 1 in the Westminster Choir, which performed Handel's "Messiah" with the New York Philharmonic this past December and will be the choir-in-residence at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina in the late spring.

I will be your inside look at student life Westminster, so keep checking in on the website for entries and pictures that will show you what our school is really like.

Erika


"You are the music while the music lasts." - T.S. Eliot