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Erin Schwab, Soprano, is an experienced performer, arts administrator, and teaching artist with a special interest in the intersection of art and social activism as well as interdisciplinary artistic collaborations.
She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Music from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she studied Vocal Performance and was the recipient of the Michael Fardink award for “Outstanding Vocalist” and the Olga Marsano Burian award for “Outstanding Achievement in Music.” She received further vocal and stage training through several scholarships at Maestro Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival, The Chautauqua Institution’s Opera Conservatory, and an artist residency at The Crested Butte Music Festival.
She is adept at multiple styles of singing, ranging from the Renaissance through the 21st century, and has performed many fully-staged operatic roles including Susanna (Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro), Venus (Blow’s Venus & Adonis) Soeur Constance (Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmélites), La Princesse (Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges), Zan (Blitzstein’s Regina), Ginevra (Handel’s Ariodante), Nanetta (Verdi’s Falstaff), Lucia (Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia), Noémie (Massenet’s Cendrillon) and Lucy Lockit (Britten’s The Beggar's Opera). In 2024, she participated in a workshop premiere of a new devised opera by Director Jennifer Williams called Dis/Inform - the music was created through a collaborative compositional process with an ensemble of artists generating a performance through structured improvisation.
She is a highly accomplished and sought after concert soloist and choral singer, and has been the primary soloist and Soprano section leader at The Community Presbyterian Church in Ringwood, NJ since 2010. She was a Soprano Choral Scholar with the Ridgewood, NJ-based Ars Musica Chorale for their 2023–2024 season, and performs regularly as a guest singer and soloist with the Riverside Choral Society (RCS). In April 2024, she made her soloist debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with RCS in John Luther Adams’ Night Peace.
Carrying her passion for music performance into arts administration, Erin has carved out a career encompassing aspects of marketing, development, event production, chorus management, and beyond. Her passion for working to promote the arts stems from early-career internships with Carl Fischer Music Publishing and the Mayo Performing Arts Center. She is currently the Chorus Manager for Downtown Voices, a semiprofessional choir in NYC made up of volunteer singers and GRAMMY-nominated members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. She is also the Executive Director of Skylands Music Academy, a tuition-free after-school program offering vocal and handbell choirs for students grades 1 through 8. In 2023 and 2024, she chaired the Ringwood Friends of Music Youth Performance Festival, an opportunity for Northern New Jersey students to share their music in a non-competitive and supportive environment.
Since 2020, she has been the Marketing Coordinator for PROTESTRA (protest + orchestra), a nonprofit organization with the mission of educating audiences about social justice issues through the context of classical music. She is the former Marketing & Communications Director for Music in the Somerset Hills, and the former Marketing Coordinator for The Art School at Old Church, two amazing New Jersey non-profit organizations that hold a very special place in her heart.
