About

Originally hailing from Austin, Texas, Eric Burton Davis (b. 2000) is a London-based composer, performer, and educator 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 settings. 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. He currently serves as Artistic Director for Temporal Harmonies, Inc., and is one-half of the experimental mixed-media duo WD440.

upcoming performances

Echoes X Perspectives
July 17, 2026
Euston Crypt Gallery, London
Social Creatures (30min Electroacoustic Set)
Eric Davis, electronics, Lydia Walquist, flute, Anna Phillips, harp, Jacob Jordan, clarinets, and Dorota Kolinek, viola

WD440 Presents: Economies of Scale
August 6, 2026
Little Nan’s Bar 2.0, London
Economies of Scale
Lydia Walquist, flute, and Eric Burton Davis, live electronics

Sherlock Holmes Society Showcase
4-6 November 2026
Madingley Hall, Cambridge
Scarlet Airs
Agatha Parkin, violin

Deep in the Heart of Texas
November 17, 2026
Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London
Variations Deep in the Heart (World Premiere)
Adriana Bec, violin, Audrey Jellett, cello, Jonathan Churchett, bassoon, and Hayden Miller, piano

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

Rescue in Regent’s Park
December- DATE TBC
Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London
Rescue in Regent’s Park (Operetta)
String quartet + youth choir TBC

More 2026 performances to be confirmed soon

RECENT PERFORMANCES

Being: RAM Summer Concert Series
July 1, 2026
Concert Room, Royal Academy of Music, London
Reticence (World Premiere)
Alise Siliņa, Accordion, Eric Davis, electronics, and Alberts Vecmanis, narrator

Liminal Lights: RAM Summer Concert Series
June 18, 2026
Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London
Trichroma
Hannah Runting, harp, and Eric Davis, electronics

Mudlarks: RAM Summer Concert Series
June 8, 2026
Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London
Find Lines (World Premiere)
Courtney Cousins, flute, Martha-Maria Mitu, violin, and Eric Davis, electronics

Sherlock Holmes Society: Sherlock Showcase
May 23, 2026
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
Scarlet Airs
Agatha Parkin, Violin

WD440 Presents: Ritual of Breath
May 21st, 2026
Eat the Sunshine. Down the Sun, London
Live Improv Set by WD440
Lydia Walquist, flute, and Eric Burton Davis, live electronics

Composer’s Workshop: Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
April 18, 2026
Olivier Hall, St Edward’s School, Oxford, UK
Loose the Bands of Orion (Chamber Orchestra)
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

Bach and Mortality Festival- Bach to the Future
April 18, 2026
All Saints Church, Bedford, UK
Organ Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat, BVW 525 (J.S. Bach, arr. Eric Burton Davis)
Bojan Čičić, violin, Sarah McMahon, cello, and Alise Siliņa, Accordion

In Conversation with Christian Mason
February 20, 2026
The Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music
Remember The Golden Age (Christian Mason)
Christian Mason, composer

Sherlock Holmes Society: Annual Dinner and Concert
January 24, 2026
House of Commons, London
Scarlet Airs
Agatha Parkin, Violin

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

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

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

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

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