Erika Fox is a British

United Kingdom

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 music educator and composer. She was born in Vienna

Vienna

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 and emigrated to England

England

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 as a refugee in 1939. She grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home, and studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Bernard Stevens

Bernard Stevens

Bernard Stevens was a British composer.Born in London, Stevens studied English and Music at the University of Cambridge with E. J. Dent, then at the Royal College of Music with R.O. Morris and Gordon Jacob from 1937 to 1940...

, Jeremy Dale Roberts

Jeremy Dale Roberts

Jeremy Dale Roberts is an English composer.His compositions have been performed worldwide at the Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Festivals, the Venice Biennale, the Diorama de Geneve, and the festivals of Avignon and Paris...

 and Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle

Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH is a British contemporary composer.-Life:Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester. His interest in music was encouraged by his mother, who bought him a clarinet when he was seven, and arranged for him to have...

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Works

Fox's writes for stage and vocal performance, and her compositions incorporate elements of Jewish traditional music. Selected works include:

• Nine lessons from Isaiah (1970)
• The Dancer, Hotoke (1991) chamber opera, text by Ruth Fainlight
  Ruth Fainlight
  Ruth Fainlight , is a poet, short story writer, translator and librettist.-Life and career:Fainlight was born in New York, but has mainly lived in England since she was fifteen, having also spent some years living in France and Spain. She studied for two years at the Birmingham and Brighton...
  
  
• Shir (1983) for chamber ensemble
• The Moon of Moses (1992) for chamber ensemble
• Osen Shoomaat (1985) for orchestra
• The Bet (1990) puppet drama, text by Elaine Feinstein