Erika Raum

Raum began playing professionally at age 12.^[1] She took first place at the 1992 Joseph Szigeti International Violin Competition in Budapest as well as the award for best interpretation of a Mozart concerto.^[1][2]

Raum is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she studied with Lorand Fenyves and was awarded the Eaton Scholarship upon her graduation.^[3][4] She was also a recipient of the Canada Council Career Development Grant.^[5]

She has performed in Hungary, Portugal, Austria, Germany, England, Italy, and France.^[1] She has appeared as a guest with the Budapest Radio Orchestra, the Szombathely Symphony Orchestra, the Austro-Hungarian Orchestra, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.^[1][2]

Both a recitalist and chamber musician, Raum also performs frequently in Canada, including at Ottawa Chamberfest and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.^[6][7] She has also performed at the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival.^[8][2] In 2003, she and pianist Lydia Wong gave the North American premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki's Violin Sonata No. 2 in Toronto.^[9]

In 1993 composer Elizabeth Raum, her mother, wrote a violin concerto for her entitled Faces of Woman. The work was commissioned by the Regina Symphony Orchestra. Erika Raum's sister, Jessica Raum, produced and directed a documentary of the event, Like Mother, Like Daughter.^[10][11]

Raum and pianist Anton Kuerti recorded Carl Czerny's piano and violin works in 2002 on Musica Viva of CBC Records.^[12] Raum has released several recordings on the Arktos label, including a CD of the Brahms Horn Trio with David Hoyt and Janet Scott Hoyt and the premiere of Pantheon by Elizabeth Raum.^[13]

Raum is on the faculties of the The Glenn Gould School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.^[14][1][15] She has also been on the summer faculty of the Banff Centre for the Arts.^[16]