Erica Jacobs-Perkins, a Montreal area violinist, believes in the transformative power of functional beauty in everyday life. An active proponent of new music, she has premiered works by Patrick Walker, Karalyn Schubring, Eliza Brown, and Drew Baker, and (as a member of the Cygnus Trio) commissioned works by Charles Zoll and Arie Verheul-Van de Ven. Her love of new music is rooted in its potential for activism, especially environmentalism, as demonstrated by performances of pieces like what the trees... Read more