About

Ericsson Hatfield is a composer, violinist, and music theorist based in Montréal. He performs chamber music and composes chamber and vocal works in historical and contemporary idioms. He studied violin performance at New York University and composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) and the European American Musical Alliance in Paris, where he studied with David Conte.

He previously taught theory and aural skills for the San Francisco Girls Chorus and counterpoint through SFCM’s continuing education division. He is a co-founder of Insight Chamber Players and Consort Eureka.

Research

He is pursuing doctoral studies in music theory at McGill University under Peter Schubert and Jon Wild. His research explores canon and mathematical models of contrapuntal theory.