Highly regarded as an educator, clinician, soloist, new music specialist, and chamber and orchestral musician, flutist Dr. Erin Helgeson Torres has performed and taught throughout the United States and abroad in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Austria, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, China, and Canada. She currently serves on the music faculties of the College of Wooster and Ohio Northern University.
Erin serves as Principal Flutist with the Lima Symphony Orchestra where she recently performed a world premiere of a flute and saxophone concerto with her Tower Duo partner and husband Michael Rene Torres. She also serves as Principal Flutist of the Worthington Chamber Orchestra and Queen City Opera and Solo Flutist with the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble (CODE), a contemporary music ensemble and was recently appointed Principal Flutist of the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra. She performs regularly in various area orchestras including the West Virginia, Louisville, Central Ohio, Springfield, and Westerville Symphonies as well as her hometown Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
Active as a soloist, Erin most recently completed a performance tour through the Balkans as a solo artist on the Derek Han Tribute Concert Series, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy. She performed as concerto soloist with the North Macedonia Philharmonic Orchestra in Skopje, North Macedonia and Pristina, Kosovo, and the Symphonic Orchestra of the National Theater of Opera and Ballet in Tirana, Albania in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of U.S. – Albania diplomatic relations.
Erin conducted her dissertation research in Dijon, France and holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, The Ohio State University, and Stetson University. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her saxophonist husband, Michael, and their rescue ex-racer greyhound, Arwen.