Pianist Raymond Erickson will perform at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St., Santa Barbara.

Erickson is a widely-travelled musician, scholar and teacher, He grew up in California and graduated with honors from Whittier College, where he performed in the college’s Bach Festival under the guidance of Margaretha Lohmann.

Erickson’s piano career began with a performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto at age 17. He has since performed, on both piano and harpsichord, all over the U.S. as well as in Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Japan and China.

For almost 40 years, Erickson was on the faculty of New York’s Queens College, CUNY, where he was the founding director of the Aaron Copland School of Music and later Dean of Arts and Humanities; and served on the doctoral faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center. He has also taught at Rutgers University and The Juilliard School.

Simultaneously active as a scholar, Erickson, who earned his Ph.D. at Yale, has produced four books, is a winner of the William H. Scheide Award of the American Bach Society, was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, and has been decorated by the German government.

His research has been supported by Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Erickson’s program includes:

Impressionist “Water Music” for Piano

“Reflets dans l’eau” (Reflections in the Water) Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

“Jardins sous la pluie” (Gardens in the Rain)

“La cathédral engloutie” (The Submerged Cathedral)

:Poissons d’or” (Goldfish)

Music of J.S. Bach Transcribed for Piano

“Organ Toccata” and “Fugue in D Minor” (BWV 565), Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (BWV 147/6), Myra Hess (1890-1965)

“Violin Chaconne in D Minor “(BWV 1004/5), Joachim Raff (1822-82)

Suggested donation at the door is $10. For more information, call Trinity Episcopal Church, 805-965-7419, or email Thomas Joyce, minister of keyboard music, tjoyce@trinitysb.org.

— Thomas Joyce for Trinity Episcopal Church.