Originally from the Greater Philadelphia area, Erik Texter is a graduate student at New York University in the Music Technology program. Texter completed his undergrad at West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a double major in music composition and studio composition.  Erik has written for two Grammy-nominated percussion quartets and other esteemed musicians. He has been selected as one of icarus Quartet’s 2024-25 iQ Test Scholars. His compositions are typically in a minimalist style and seek to explore new techniques and textures. It has been said that he composes with an “economy of means in terms of instrumentation” (GRAMMY® Award-winning percussionist, David Skidmore). His piano duo piece, ataraxia?, was a first-place winner of the 2021 Roz Patton Composition Contest. 

Texter was additionally accepted to take part in the 2021 Creative Musicians Retreat at the Walden School in Dublin, New Hampshire. While there, he composed a harp and vibraphone duet, and was able to perform alongside esteemed flutist and soprano, Alice Teyssier.

His project, t.exter is a project centered around AI art, generative modular synthesis, and film scoring that tries to play into aesthetics including dreamcore, liminal spaces, surrealism, and weirdcore.

Texter is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Audio Engineering Society, and is a brother of the Rho Sigma Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.