Erika Johnson,

Assistant Principal

A native Houstonian, Erika Johnson has been a member of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra since 2001. She currently serves as Assistant Principal cellist of both the Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestras. She is an accomplished chamber musician, having won the Schaad Award at the Carmel Chamber Music competition with the Moores Piano Trio and recorded with guitarist Mark McCain in the guitar-cello duo, Touch the Strings. Mrs. Johnson is a graduate of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, where she studied with Laszlo Varga.