Erin Gee

Erin Elizabeth Gee (born San Luis Obispo, California 1974) is an award-winning American performer and composer. Among the fellowships she has held are the Guggenheim and the Radcliffe Institute Fellow, and among the awards she was won for her compositions are the Rome Prize and the first prize of the International Rostrum of Composers. She is currently on the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana.

Gee was raised in Fairfield, Iowa from the age of eight. In 1997 she received her B.M. with honors and highest distinction in Piano Performance from the University of Iowa; there she also earned an M.A. in composition in 2002. In 2007, she earned her Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria.

With her brother Colin Gee, she performed at the Whitney Museum of Art and was a resident at the Montalvo Arts Center. She won the 2008 Rome Prize and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009. From 2009-2011, she was a Senior Lecturer in theory and composition at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. She is now an Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a position she began in the fall semester of 2012. In 2015, she received the Charles Ives Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A reviewer from the Harvard Gazette described a performance of Gee's work as "a young woman with a microphone in each hand performing a curious and captivating symphony of sound and song".

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