Erin Schwab, Soprano, is an experienced performer, arts administrator, and teaching artist with a special interest in the intersection of art and social activism as well as interdisciplinary artistic collaborations.

She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Music from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she studied Vocal Performance and was the recipient of the Michael Fardink award for “Outstanding Vocalist” and the Olga Marsano Burian award for “Outstanding Achievement in Music.”

She received further vocal and stage training through several scholarships at the late Maestro Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival, The Chautauqua Institution’s Opera Conservatory, and an artist residency at The Crested Butte Music Festival.

She is adept at multiple styles of singing, ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century, and has performed many fully-staged operatic roles including Susanna (Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro), Venus (Blow’s Venus & Adonis) Soeur Constance (Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmélites), La Princesse (Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges), Zan (Blitzstein’s Regina), Ginevra (Handel’s Ariodante), Nanetta (Verdi’s Falstaff), Lucia (Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia), Noémie (Massenet’s Cendrillon) and Lucy Lockit (Britten’s The Beggar's Opera).

She is a highly accomplished and sought after concert soloist and choral singer, and has been the Soprano section leader at The Community Presbyterian Church in Ringwood, NJ since 2010. Most recently, she took a position as Soprano Choral Scholar with the Ridgewood, NJ-based Ars Musica Chorale for their 2023–2024 season.

Carrying her passion for music into arts administration, Erin currently serves as the Marketing & Communications Director for Music in the Somerset Hills, a NJ nonprofit with the mission of creating high-quality musical experiences and fostering education, artistry, and community through music.

Since January 2022, she has been the Chorus Manager for Downtown Voices, a semiprofessional choir in NYC made up of volunteer singers and GRAMMY-nominated members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. In September 2022, she became Executive Director of Skylands Music Academy, a tuition-free after-school program offering vocal and handbell choirs for students grades 1 through 8.

She is also the Marketing Coordinator for PROTESTRA (protest + orchestra), a nonprofit organization with the mission of educating audiences about social justice issues through the context of classical music.

This Spring, she will be chairing the Ringwood Friends of Music’s 26th Annual Youth Performance Festival, to take place on June 2, 2024. To learn more about the festival, visit ringwoodfriendsofmusic.org/youth-performance.