Discipline: Music Composition

Erik Santos

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Ypsilanti, MI
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2013

Erik Santos worked on composing a couple pieces for percussion and electronics, and a piano concerto; voraciously practiced multiple instruments and voice; developed new theatrical/musical integrations of all of the above; and worked on recording/producing solo performance.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Erik Santos worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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