ERIN WATSON was born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma. She attended Bard
College in Annandale, New York, where she focused on violin performance and composition, earning a B.A. in Music. In 2004 she earned a Master of Music in Composition from the Shepherd School at Rice University.

Her primary teachers have included Joan Tower, Pierre Jalbert, Karim Al-Zand, and Kurt Stallmann. Her music has included performances by the Da Capo Chamber Players and the American Symphony Orchestra. She was a composer in residence at the 2004 Deer Valley Music Festival in Park City, Utah, a guest composer at the 2004 Imagine Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee, and attended the 2003 Bowdoin Summer Music Festival.

Erin is currently living in San Diego, and is working on a 4-handed prepared piano piece for recent Shepherd School graduates Kimi Kiwashima and Jason Hardink, to be premiered in January as part of the NOVUS Chamber series in Salt Lake City.