Accompanist

Hailed as “an impressive performer in his own right...impassioned, hypnotic, insightful...superb tonal control” by the New York Concert Review, and as a “prodigy…Rojas, the piano and the music become one” by the Los Angeles Times, Rev. Dr. Erikson Rojas, has given numerous solo and chamber performances in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, including eight appearances at Carnegie Hall, New York. In each case he has also been featured as soloist with orchestra. His recordings have obtained critical acclaim, and as a teacher, lecturer, and church musician, he continues to gain distinction amidst high demand. 

Dr. Rojas is honored to have been one of five Americans and the only Hispanic in 30 pianists selected world-wide for the Cleveland International Piano Competition. He has won the Ambler Symphony Orchestra Competition, the Outstanding Young Christian Artists Competition, Cuba’s Amadeo Roldán and UNEAC Competitions, among others. A pupil of the legendary Leon Fleisher (5 years), Dr. Rojas is a graduate of Peabody Institute (M.M., G.P.D.), where he also studied conducting privately with the eminent conductor Gustav Meier. Prior to Peabody he studied piano with Madame Eleanor Sokoloff at Curtis Institute of Music, and with Distinguished Professor Samuel Hsu at Cairn University (B.M., B.S.), where he also learned organ under Robert Carwithen. Other lessons and masterclasses were with Claude Frank, Gary Graffman, Seymour Lipkin, John Perry, Ilana Vered, Sasha Starcevich, Pavlina Dokovska, Susan Starr, and Jorge Luis Prats. As a scholarship student of Min Kwon and Juilliard’s Martin Canin, Dr. Rojas earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.

With performances in the U.S. and abroad, Dr. Rojas is often invited as guest artist/professor at various institutions, music festivals and competitions. He teaches piano privately, with students celebrating top prizes and honors in local, national and international events, including at Carnegie Hall, Dublin International Piano Festival and Summer Academy, Steinway’s 165th Anniversary Celebration, Florida’s Young Artists International Piano Competition, FL Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition, Greater Miami Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, Pennsylvania’s “Young Classical Virtuosos of Tomorrow”, Csehy ChamberFest and Concerto Performance, Concerto Competition of the Palm Beach Atlantic University Symphony, and Eastern University Piano Festival and Competition, wherein three of Rojas’s students won top-four prizes. Among the pupils he has taught and mentored are Fulbright Scholars, and those who have gone on to study at institutions such as The Juilliard School, Peabody Institute, Manhattan School of Music, Cleveland Institute, Oberlin Conservatory, Shenandoah Conservatory, Colburn School, as well as the universities of Miami, Temple, Rutgers, Carnegie Mellon, among others.

Dr. Rojas is on faculty at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Lynn University, Palm Beach State College, and Csehy Summer School of Music. He directs Pianissimo!, PBA’s Summer Keyboard Intensive, and also serves as pianist of the Choral Society of the Palm Beaches and as Music Minister and Organist at Royal Palm Presbyterian Church in Southeast Florida, where he resides with his wife, Diandra, and daughters Erika and Adriana.