Midsummer Night’s Dream Previews start this weekend! I composed the music for this show and got to collaborate with an amazing group of artists. If you are local I hope you are able to see it. The show will run from March 16 to April 21 at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley.
Tickets and more information available here.

I am thrilled to be collaborating with the Fresno Philharmonic, conductor Rei Hotoda, and my sister, Hitomi Oba! We will be writing a new work inspired the writings of Fresno farmer, David “Mas” Masumoto. This project is a co-commission between the Fresno Philharmonic and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. The full press release is available here.

After four years, I’m excited to finally release Strange Moon! We recorded back in August 2019 with every intention of releasing in 2020, and then the world had other plans for us. At long last I’m happy to finally be able to share this music.

https://erikaoba.bandcamp.com/album/strange-moon

I am excited to have gotten the opportunity to share my writing with NewMusicBox through a blog collaboration between NewMusicBox and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music’s Composing Earth program! I was a composer fellow in the program, and this is an essay that I wrote while doing the program.

Yesterday I had the great honor and privilege of getting to play with one of my heroes, Francis Wong! The recorded livestream is available here.

Sl(e)ight Ensemble concluded the “Of California Ecology” concert program with a noon concert at UC Davis! The recorded livestream is available here.

Back in December, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Ensemble for These Time’s as part of their #MeetTheArtist series! It was a really fun conversation ruminating on the current state of Bay Area arts, the impacts of the pandemic on the arts scene, and many other things. The full interview is available to view here.

This Sunday is the annual SF Music Day! There will be free concerts all day at the War Memorial Theater in San Francisco, and I am honored to be playing in three bands throughout the afternoon.

My fellow ensemble members and I had a wonderful time filming our concert program at the Center For New Music, and were excited to share it via livestream last night. It is now available to view on the C4NM YouTube channel. Many thanks to the staff at Center For New Music, the composers, and my fellow performers!

I am absolutely over the moon to be participating in the premiere performance of Meredith’s Monk’s Indra’s Net! This interdisciplinary, evening-length musical work will be performed on November 12th and 13th for a limited capacity audience and live-streamed from Littlefield Concert Hall.

Congratulations to Nick DePinna on the release of his album Nexus Remixes, Vol. 1! I’m honored to have been asked to make a contribution to this unique “remix” album.

I am excited to share that I was selected as the winner for the SoCal Chamber Music Festival’s 2021 call for scores!