About
Prize-winning performer Erin Cameron enjoys a diverse career as a clarinetist, composer, and educator. Cameron is a Second Prize Winner for the 2025 American Prize in Performance, the 2020 winner of the Victoria Bach Festival Competition, and regularly performs with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Her book, Bass Camp: A Training Manual for Bass Clarinetists (Alea Publishing) was published in December 2024. An avid proponent of new music, Cameron has performed over 40 world and regional premieres of new works and has collaborated with hundreds of composers including Chelsea Komschlies, Jonathan Russell, and Celka Ojakangas. A committed educator, Cameron serves as Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas and has worked with young musicians and artists at the Arkansas Governor’s School, The Walden School (Dublin, New Hampshire), and as a Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas.
She is regularly sought out as a guest artist and clinician and has presented recitals and master classes across the United States. She has been featured at numerous International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest Conferences as both a clarinetist and composer, and has served as an adjudicator for the International Clarinet Association High School and Young Artist Competitions. Erin has performed as a guest artist at East Tennessee State University, Truman State University, the Texas A&M Commerce Clarinet Colloquium, the University of Nebraska Kearney New Music Festival, the Bowling Green New Music Festival, and the Northwestern University New Music Conference. She has presented master classes across the United States, including at Truman State University, University of North Carolina Greensboro, University of Arkansas, University of Delaware, Texas A&M University Kingsville, University of Virginia, Austin Peay State University, Kutztown University, and University of Texas Arlington.
Performance Highlights
At the 2025 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, Erin played bass clarinet as a member of the Texas-based Sonoren trio, which presented a fully improvised performance, and performed with the International Clarinet Association Professors’ Clarinet Choir. Cameron also gave a presentation for musicians and academics about academic music publishing, and she served as an adjudicator for the International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition semi-final round.
Erin’s 2024 book release, Bass Camp: A Training Manual for Musicians, is available for purchase as a PDF or hard copy here. Bass Camp fills the gap in pedagogical materials for young bass clarinetists by providing technique and scale exercises aimed at high school and early college students. More information can be found in the “Bass Camp” tab of this website.
Chamber Music Projects
Bantam Winds
The world’s premiere ensemble of flute, oboe, clarinet, and saxophone
Comprised of Arkansas State University faculty Stephanie Hoeckley (flute), Kristin Leitterman (oboe), Erin Cameron (clarinet), and Elissa Kana (saxophone), the Bantam Winds was formed in August 2020 out of a desire to safely continue making live music during the pandemic.
This desire has now grown into a multi-faceted mission of bringing chamber music to digital audiences as well as exploring the creation of new works for this unique instrumentation, most notably spotlighting the works of underrepresented composers.
Named after the bantam, which may refer to a small and feisty person, boxer, or chicken, this spirited ensemble seeks to provide an active performance schedule promoting chamber music and educational outreach throughout Northeast Arkansas.
Sonoren
All-female free improvisation trio
Sonoren, comprised of members Sarah Jay (voice/electronics), Jessica Stearns (alto saxophone), and Erin Cameron (bass clarinet) is an all-female free improvisation trio.
The group’s name is a portmanteau of the words “siren” (both in reference to a loud warning signal and to mythical female sea creatures) and “sonorous” (as in, to sound). Sonoren’s sonic palette exists between contemporary classical music, free jazz, noise music, and electronic pop.
Their debut album, Charm the Winds, was released May 23, 2023 on Incongruent Records.
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