I write music, I listen to music, I play music, I read, I talk to people.

I've recently received my Bachelors in Music (Composition and Conducting) from Berklee College of Music, and will hopefully be returning to the East Coast this Fall for my Masters.

From May 21st-30th, 2013, I will be in Manhattan for an audition at Mannes College (The New School), and meeting with future teachers (such as the wonderful Missy Mazzoli) so I'll be open to hang out :)

I'm a composer, conductor, and teacher.

Sites for my music:
www.brianericksonmusic.com
www.soundcloud.com/brianerickson

Music
Thinking
Writing
Trying to be social
That's about it

Eyes
Hair
Etc.

Authors:

Bukowski
Burroughs
Dawkins
Dostoevsky
Feynman
Ginsberg
Harris
Hawking
Heidegger
Hitchens
Hume
Kerouac
Nietzsche
Sinclair
Twain
Wittgenstein

Films:

The Godfather Series
Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Amélie
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Fight Club
The Hours
The Reader
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Science of Sleep
Pulp Fiction
City of God
Silence of the Lambs
American Psycho

TV Shows:

Arrested Development
Black Books
South Park
Trailer Park Boys

Composers (Chronological):

Hildegard
Leonin
Perotin
Machaut
Dufay
Ockeghem
Dowland
Byrd
Tallis
Weelkes
Couperin
Josquin
Palestrina
Gabrielli
Gesualdo
Gibbons
Di Vittoria
Monteverdi
Legrenzi
Rameau
Lully
Bach
Handel
Pergolesi
Gluck
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Schumann
Bruckner
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Berlioz
Liszt
Verdi
Brahms
Mussorgsky
Franck
Tchaikovksy
Wagner
Saint-Saens
Faure
Mahler
Strauss
Satie
Debussy
Ravel
Schoenberg
Ives
Stravinsky
Varese
Webern
Sessions
Berg
Copland
Schuman
Messiaen
Cowell
Dutellieux
Carter
Cage
Antheil
Babbitt
Stockhausen
Boulez
Dallapiccola
Nono
Scelsi
Young
Riley
Reich
Glass
Pårt
Corigliano
Penderecki
Zappa
Adams
Rouse
Lang
Wolfe
Qualliotine
Bjork
Adès
Whitacre
Norman
Mazzoli
Gjeilo
Muhly
Greenstein

Contemporary Guys I like:

Bjork
Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond)
Death Cab For Cutie
Beirut
Ben Frost
Grizzly Bear
Jonsi (Sigur Ros)
Helgi Hrafn Jonsson
Teitur
Glen Hansard
Au Revoir Simone
Imogen Heap
The Killers
Cold War Kids

Food:

Chinese
Italian
Indian
Thai

Music
Paper/Pencil
Laptop
Books/Scores
Schadenfreude
Irony

Music
Mathematics
Science
Philosophy
Social Issues

Writing music.
Spending time with people.

you are eccentric, understanding, and alive.