Eda Er

Eda Er is a contemporary classical composer, new media artist, and vocalist. Her work spans live electronics, audiovisual and multimedia performance, and extended vocal techniques, exploring embodiment, feminist storytelling, and the relationship between sound, image, and physical gesture.

A PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley (CNMAT / BCNM), she is the 2025–26 George Ladd Prix de Paris Fellow and 2025–27 Visiting Doctoral Researcher at HEAR Strasbourg. Her current project, Fluid Narratives, transforms the traditional Turkish art of Ebru into a performative instrument for live composition.

“A scenography and the darkness of the space… a kind of sanctuary prefiguring some morbid sacrifice… catching the eye as much as the ear.” Michèle Tosi, ResMusica · Festival de Royaumont, 2023

• May 26I Kept the Voice You Left Behind — Unerhörte Musik, Berlin (Nicholas Isherwood, premiere)
• Jun 8The Ceremony of Almost Saying — HEAR Strasbourg (Ensemble Crash + Eda Er, premiere)
• Jun 23La Confluence — Abeceda Festival, Bled, Slovenia (premiere)
• Jun 26Echopraxia — GMEM, Marseille (Collective Lovemusic, premiere)
• Jun 27I Kept the Voice You Left Behind — Yeldeğirmeni Sanat, Istanbul (Istanbul premiere)
• Jul 9Trio — Richten25, Berlin (Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, Michael Griener)
• Oct 3Happily Ever After — Wigmore Hall, London (Schallfeld Ensemble, “Voices of Today”)

• 2025–26Instructions for Not Disappearing — Soprano, Ebru instrument, electronics, video
• 2026The Ceremony of Almost Saying — Voice, cl., euphonium, Ebru, electronics, video
• 2024Beyond the Pacific Ocean — Orchestra · SF Contemporary Music Players
• 2023In This Cosmic Dance, Our Spirits Accrue — Voice solo · Royaumont
• 2022Too Much of a Woman — Solo voice, electronics, objects, video
• 2021The Year Without Summer — Orchestra · Antwerp Symphony