ERICA RUBIS is a versatile performer on the viola da gamba and baroque cello whose work ranges from renaissance viol consort to improvising and co-creating new music. She is a member of Alchymy Viols, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Echoing Air, and plays with Bach and Beethoven Experience and North Carolina Baroque. She collaborates and performs regularly with composer/ performer Tomás Lozano in his song project on the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Her teachers include Anneke Pols, Wieland Kuijken, Margriet Tindemanns, Wendy Gillespie, Stanley Ritchie, Jaap Ter Linden and Julie Elhard. She holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College, M.M. in Early Music Performance from Indiana University and a Performer’s Certificate from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Erica’s most recent discography includes Les Ordinaires, Inner Chambers and Monteclair:Beloved and Betrayed and contemporary music of Tomas Lozano, Eternal Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Active in music education, Erica teaches at summer courses and holds workshops on the viola da gamba for modern string students. She has pioneered a multi-media program, Shakespeare's Ear, with regular tours and residencies in schools since 2009.