Rick Erickson

Rick Erickson serves as Director of Bach Society Houston as well as teaching improvisation and church music at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University in Houston. Previously he has served as Cantor at Christ the King Lutheran in Houston as well as Holy Trinity Lutheran in New York City, where he also directed the Bach Vespers series. Previously, he served as Director of Music at Incarnate Word Lutheran Church in Rochester, NY.  He has performed as organist and conductor throughout the United States, as well as Germany, New Zealand and Australia. His choral arrangements are published by Augsburg Fortress. In 2017, the Houston Bach Choir performed at the Leipzig Bach Festival, the first professional choir invited and featured at that festival. The choir returns to Leipzig this coming June.