12 November 2022
''Vaughan Williams' 150th Birthday'', Duo recital with Chu-Yu Yang (violin) at Merton College, Oxford, 1:15pm
3-5 November 2022
Eric has been invited to give three days of masterclasses on British piano and vocal music in Vienna at Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien, details here
29 October 2022
Duo recital with Chu-Yu Yang (violin), hosted by the Arthur Bliss Society, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 3:30pm, details here
15-16 October 2022
Duo recital with Chu-Yu Yang (violin), Tubingen (Germany), with support from the Arthur Bliss Society and Trust, hosted by Kammermusikfreunde Tubingen
12 October 2022
Duo recital with Chu-Yu Yang (violin), Hereford, All Saints Church, 1:00pm
7 October 2022
Duo recital with Chu-Yu Yang (violin), the British Embassy in Vienna, hosted by the Austro-British Society, featuring the world premiere of Ian Venables's Violin Sonata, supported by the Arthur Bliss Society and the Arthur Bliss Trust
12-16 July 2022
The Robert Graves Society Conference in Palma de Mallorca, including a song-recital with April Fredrick of Eric's own compositions
3 June 2022
The Elgar Festival, song-recital with baritone Marcus Farnsworth, Worcester (Huntingdon Hall), 1:00pm
22 April 2022
Duo lunchtime recital with Chu-Yu Yang (violin), St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 12:40pm
20 April 2022
Duo recital with Chu-Yu Yang (violin), St. Peter's Church in St. Albans, 1:00pm
4 April 2022
Song Recital for the Luton Music Club, Andrew Randall (baritone), St. Mary's Church, 7:45pm
19 March 2022
Oxford Lieder Festival, song recital with tenor James Gilchrist, featuring the premiere of Eric's After The Voices: Six Poems of W.S. Merwin and his commissioned song-setting of a poem by Alice Oswald (Oxford's Professor of Poetry). Details here.
8 March 2022
Solo recital, featuring Frederic Rzewski's De Profundis for 'speaking pianist', Magdalen College, Oxford 8:00pm. Details here.
2 February 2022
Solo lunchtime recital, New College Chapel (Oxford), 1:15pm
18 November 2021
Performance of Eric's song-cycle The Fetch with April Fredrick (soprano), Birmingham & Midland Institute, 6:00pm, further details here
11 November 2021
Song Recital with Andrew Randall (Baritone), including Eric's song-cycle The Fetch, St. Hilda's College (Oxford), 1:15pm, further details here
23 October 2021
Song Recital with Andrew Randall (Baritone), sponsored by the Ivor Gurney Society, Wolfson College (Oxford)
17 October 2021
Gloucester Society of Music, song recital with Andrew Randall (Baritone) and Gregory Leadbetter (poet), featuring music by Eric McElroy, Ian Venables, John Ireland, and Ivor Gurney
1 September 2021
Solo Recital, Emmanuel United Reform Church, Cambridge, 1:00pm
23 July-7 August June 2021
Eric will appear as a performer, lecturer, and interviewer for the inaugural British Music Festival in Taiwan
2 June 2021
Solo recital, St. Peter's Church in St. Albans, 1:00pm
21-26 July 2020, Illinois State University
North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA), Lecture-recital
29-30 May 2020, King's College London
'Memory, Identity, and the Remediation of Musical Lives', conference paper
15 May 2020, St. Bride's Church (Fleet Street), London, 1:15pm
Solo Lunchtime Recital
12 May 2020, Bristol Cathedral, 1:15pm
Solo Lunchtime Recital
7-9 May 2020, Amsterdam
Private song-recitals with April Fredrick for SAGA Cruises
23 April 2020, British Embassy in Vienna, Austria
Song-recital with Andrew Randall
16 March 2020, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 7:30pm
"The Course of True Love", song-recital with April Fredrick (soprano). Details here.
17 January 2020 Bournville Lunchtime Concert Series, 1:00pm
Solo recital
8 January 2020, Cambridge, Emmanuel United Reform Church, 1:00pm
Solo Recital
28 November 2019, Oxford, Holywell Music Room, 8:00pm
"The Fetch: Songs of the Uncanny", with April Fredrick (soprano), featuring the premiere of Eric's song-cycle "The Fetch" setting poems by Gregory Leadbetter. Pre-concert talk at 7:15pm. Supported by Merton College and Oxford University's TORCH Network. Tickets available here.
16 November 2019, Eglesfield Musical Society, Oxford, 1:30pm
Solo Recital: music by George Gershwin, Jacob TV, and Ian Venables
18 October 2019, Tubingen, Germany
"Two Visions of America: George Gershwin and Aaron Copland", Jazz und Klassik Tage
4 October 2019, Shrewsbury, 12:40pm
Solo Lunchtime Recital, St. Chad's (Concert in the Round)
2 July 2019
Solo recital, United States Embassy in Vienna, Austria
6 June 2019
Solo recital, Steinway Festival, Gateway Arts Centre (Shrewsbury), 4:00pm
5 June 2019
Solo recital, St. Peter's Church in St. Albans, 1:00pm
11 May 2019
Concert with the Carducci Quartet & Andrew Randall, King's School (Gloucester), sponsored by the Arthur Bliss Trust, music by Ivor Gurney, Arthur Bliss, and Ian Venables
1 April 2019
Lecture-recital, Birmingham & Midland Institute (BMI), 1:00pm
2 February 2019
Solo Recital, Eglesfield Musical Society, Oxford, 1:30pm
30 January 2019
Solo Recital, Emmanuel United Reform Church, Cambridge, 1:00pm
19 November 2018
"Two Visions of America: George Gershwin and Aaron Copland" (lecture-recital), Birmingham & Midland Institute (BMI), 1:00pm
16 November 2018
Solo Recital, Bournville Lunchtime Concert Series, music by Ravel and Bax, 1:00pm
7 November 2018
Solo Lunchtime Recital, Oxford University, Denis Arnold Hall, 1:10pm
6 November 2018
Solo Lunchtime Recital, St. Bride's Church (Fleet Street), London, 1:15pm
2 November 2018
Solo Lunchtime Recital, St. Chad's (Concert in the Round), Shrewsbury, 12:40pm
14 October 2018
Song Recital with soprano April Fredrick, Tübinger Kammermusikfreunde (Germany), 5:00pm
13 October 2018
Song Recital with soprano April Fredrick, Tübinger Kammermusikfreunde (Germany), 11:00am
4 October 2018
"Outlaws and Outsiders" - Americana Festival' at St. John's Smith Square, soprano April Fredrick and pianist Will Vann
13 September 2018
The Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, contemporary music for solo piano (Frederic Rzewski, Ian Venables, Howard Skempton, John Joubert, and Ken Benshoof), Wayward Music Series, 8:00pm