#  Erin Gee 

 

 



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Title: *Mouthpiece 40*  
Commission: 2017  
Completed: 2025  
Instrumentation: Voice, flute, bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola, violoncello  
Premiere Location: May 20, 2024 at Old First Church, San Francisco, CA  
Premiere Ensemble: Earplay

  
Erin Gee is currently an Assistant Professor of Composition at Brandeis University. Her chapter titled “The Notation and Use of the Voice in Non-semantic Contexts: Phonetic Organization in the Vocal Music of Dieter Schnebel, George Aperghis and Brian Ferneyhough” is published by Routledge Press in the book *Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities*, edited by Christian Utz and Frederick Lau.

Through her *Mouthpiece* series she has created an ephemeral world that expands the possibilities of the voice, leaves behind the constrictive structure of language, and replaces histrionic female vocals with a virtuosic mouth and a *tabula rasa* for an emotional palate. Composer, Professor and former Arts Director for the American Academy in Rome Martin Brody’s states in his CD liner notes, “Erin Gee presents a set of voluptuous enigmas—a taxonomy of finely-etched utterances devoid of meaning; an orderly syntax of sounds that vaporizes fixed forms; an aesthetic environment that feels at once extraterrestrial and uncannily familiar.”



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Commission Date
    
     [2017](/commission-date/2017)
- ## Completion Date
    
     [2025](/completion-date/2025)
- ## Composer
    
     [Gee, Erin](/composer/gee-erin)
- ## Commissions
    
     [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)