THE MUNRO REVIEW // conversation with composer Kurt Erickson: From Fresno State to national acclaim, a champion of art song

“A few months ago, composer Kurt Erickson returned to the university that sent him out into the world. The Fresno State Art Song Festival — held in February this year as a digital event, thanks to the pandemic, but normally a robust in-person event organized by Fresno State music professor Maria Briggs — welcomed Erickson as its guest composer. It was a full circle, in a sense, considering how much time he’d spent in the music department as a student pursuing his craft.”