Erik Rynearson

A native of southern California and dual citizen of France and the United States, Erik Rynearson has enjoyed performing across the Americas and Europe. Having earned a Master’s degree with Performer’s Certificate from Indiana University as the teaching assistant of Alan deVeritch. He spent four years were spent in Miami Beach as a fellow of the New World Symphony.  In his 12 years of professional orchestral playing, Erik has performed with the Charleston and Kansas City Symphonies and served as first-call substitute in the Phoenix and Detroit Symphonies. He currently is substitute in the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and first-call substitute in the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  His has toured internationally with the New World Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Nearly one million ecstatic audience members have heard him perform Star Wars in concert.

When not wielding his 1970 Alfio Batelli viola, made for then Principal of the L.A. Philharmonic Jan Hlinka, Erik employs his Nikon cameras to professionally to capture life one frame at a time.  He is a founding member of the Firebird Orchestra in Miami, plays with the IRIS Chamber Orchestra of Memphis, has been a member of the Pacific Symphony and is currently a member of the Long Beach and New West symphonies.