Erica Seguine - Composer and Conductor
Suggested Listening
The New Day Bends Light - Eric Seguine | Shon Baker Orchestra
America At War - Joel Harrison
Music for Large and Small Ensembles - Kenny Wheeler
Love is a Temporary Madness -
Forest Floor - Fergus McCreedie
Where Will the River Flow - Matt Carmichael
Suggested Reading (on Creativity and the Creative Process)
Van Gogh: The Life - Naifeh and Smith
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - Van Gogh
Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Kadinsky
Testimony: The Memoirs of Dimitri Shostakovich - Dimitri Shostakovich
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
About Erica Seguine
Erica Seguine is a composer, conductor, pianist, educator, and co-leader of the 21 musician Erica Seguine | Shon Baker Orchestra. “In terms of majestic sweep, cinematic scope and clever outside-the-box humor, it’s hard to think of a more interesting group in big band jazz than the Erica Seguine | Shon Baker Orchestra” writes the New York Music Daily.
Their upcoming debut album, “The New Day Bends Light,” which will be released March 31, 2023, was produced by renowned composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue, and deals with psychological themes of mental illness, struggle, and healing.
Erica’s compositions and arrangements have received several awards, including the 2013 BMI Foundation Charlie Parker Prize for Jazz Composition, 3 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards, an ISJAC Covid-19 grant, and a NJ Composers Guild grant, amongst others, and have been performed and/or commissioned by ensembles such as the Metropole Orchestra, the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, the Danish Radio Big Band, New York Youth Symphony Jazz, and many other professional and college jazz ensembles. She has also worked as a conductor with many of NYC's best jazz orchestras, and Erica is currently part of the core team and an event host with JazzComposersPresent.com.