Susan Erickson currently teaches both harpsichord and piano students at her studio in Davis, California. Her students have appeared in the Golden Empire Competition at CSUS with high honors. In recent years she has also taught for University Extension at UCD and the Experimental College of UC Davis. While teaching in the Music Department at UC Davis she received uniformly high reviews, including the following excerpts:
“One of the top classes I have taken at Davis.”
“I have had other ‘excellent’ classes at Davis, but this was even better.”
“Never before have I had such an intimate class environment—wonderful, all levels of musical knowledge—very cooperative learning environment.”
“The class [Women Composers] taught by Ms. Erickson has been one of the two most enjoyable, stimulating and challenging courses I’ve been privileged to take. Truly a jewel of a class that I had given up finding within the University system. Ms. Erickson is a teacher in the grand Socratic tradition, nearly as rare as the subject matter.”
From the Sydney Conservatorium of Music:
“[Dr. Erickson] is very adept at teaching the art of major document preparation and was the key to my success in the research and preparation of my major paper for my Master of Music degree at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she has been a highly respected teacher for several years. [She] has the ability to understand the special problems that many performing musicians (especially the more mature students) have within this area of music and is able to give clear, sympathetic guidance tailored to each student.” —Richard D. Montz, M. Mus., Head of Jazz Studies
“[Dr. Erickson] is a fine scholar and performing musician with particular expertise in baroque music, and has been a very highly regarded teacher, both in terms of general music history lectures, and of leading smaller seminar groups (including a pioneering Women in Music course). I am proud to have had Dr. Erickson as a colleague.” —Richard Toop, Head, Musicology Division, School of Academic Studies