About

Originally hailing from Austin, Texas, Eric Burton Davis (b. 2000) is a London-based composer and performer whose work spans both acoustic and electronic mediums and includes recent collaborations with filmmakers, animators, librettists, art galleries, and amateur and community music groups.

Eric is fascinated with the manipulation of space and gesture within his music, creating genre-bending compositions which often take inspiration from vast natural structures or elements of human memory. His compositions often operate within small motivic spaces, or within carefully controlled rhythmic or harmonic constraints, striving for music which feels tight-knit and inevitable while retaining an element of freedom and organicism.

Recent career highlights include two premieres with the Riot Ensemble and collaborative performances with the Courtauld Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, and Roberts Institute of Art, as well as an operatic debut at the Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival and electroacoustic premieres in New York (NYCEMF) and Limerick (International Computer Music Conference). Past collaborations include performances with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra (ERSO), PHACE Contemporary Music at the Vienna Summer Music Festival, Trio Immersio at the ICEBERG Institute, the Sydney Contemporary Orchestra (SCO), and the Valencia International Contemporary Ensemble (VICE) at the Valencia International Performance Academy.

Following his studies in performance (French Horn) and composition at the University of Oklahoma and the Royal Academy of Music, Eric is now a PhD candidate under a Scholarship the Academy, where he is exploring the use of live electronics in constructing audience-performer interfaces in concert performance settings. Eric is grateful to continue his studies with the support of an Open Academy Fellowship, through which he will continue to pursue his passion for curating quality community music experiences for disadvantaged adults in London and beyond. In addition to his contemporary concert music (both electronic and acoustic), Eric maintains an active interest in conducting, film scoring, music education, and the production and administration of multidisciplinary contemporary music projects.

upcoming performances

FATA MORGANA
December 15, 2025
St Paul’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas
Credo and Fata Morgana
Hayden Miller, Piano

FATA MORGANA– 2nd Performance
December 18, 2025
Fairfield Arts and Convention Center, Fairfield, Iowa
Credo and Fata Morgana
Hayden Miller, Piano

Planetary: Music For Accordion (Second Performance)
January 12, 2026
Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music
Vela
Alise Silina, Accordion, and Eric Davis, electronics

Orfeo: Abridged
January 13, 2026
Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music
Orfeo (Gluck, arr. Eric Davis, Courtney Cousins, Martha-Maria Mitu, and Joe Mathawaphan)
Ella Orohek-Coddington and Anna Lluna Aguilar, directors, cond. Nika Kožar

Sherlock Holmes Society: Annual Dinner and Concert
January 24, 2026
House of Commons, London
Newly Commissioned Work
Agatha Parkin, Violin

RESCHEDULED: Academy Manson Ensemble
Autumn 2026
The Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music
Loose the Bands of Orion
Featuring the RAM Manson Ensemble

More 2026 performances to be confirmed soon

RECENT PERFORMANCES

Beethoven: New Perspectives
October 11, 2025
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead
Credo
Mengyang Pan, piano

Peeled Back: New Works for Opera
(Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival)
September 23, 2025
The Cockpit, London
Get Your Licks In
Hailey West, Bella Hulbert, Amber Dixon, and Carleigh Ross, voice
Ishan Bhadra, piano
Conducted by Hilary Punnett
Libretto by Noah McCreadie

Richmond Concert Society: Annual General Meeting
July 15, 2025
St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham
Ellwand
Nivanthi Karunaratne and Peter Raistrick, horns, and Jeremy Ng, organ

Landscapes/Atmospheres II: Music for Transducer Piano
July 2, 2025
Concert Room, Royal Academy of Music
Fata Morgana
Hayden Miller, piano, and Eric Davis, synthesizer

Bands Concert with RAM Composer-in-Residence Anna Meredith
June 26, 2025
Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music
Four New Works for Electric Bass Quartet
Eric Davis, Gabriel Jackson, Saurabh Shivakumar, and Luca Zucchi, bass guitars

Planetary: Music for Accordion
June 16, 2025
Concert Room, Royal Academy of Music
Vela
Alise Silina, accordion, and Eric Davis, electronics

Cine-Concert, pt. 2
June 12, 2025
Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel
Anomaly
Featuring the original animated film by Arthur Voblikovs, with music live-to-picture

Cine-Concert, pt. 1
May 31, 2025
Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel
Anomaly
Featuring the original animated film by Arthur Voblikovs, with music live-to-picture

Music by Numbers: Side-by-Side with the Riot Ensemble
May 2, 2025
Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music
TREMOR
Agnese Lipska, flute, Fraser Tannock, trumpet, Hannah Runting, harp, Kasparas Mikuzis, piano, Oran Johnson, guitar, and Marianne Schofield, contrabass
Conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum