Erin Henke is a fourth-generation Montanan who has a great love for organization and office administration, as well as providing and participating in music. A collaborative pianist by trade, Erin has over 15 years of experience in collaborative music in both piano and voice and 4 years of experience in office administration. She strives to equally integrate both interests into her profession.
Erin works full-time as Office Administrator and Pianist/Organist for Hope Lutheran, and also works remotely for The Center for Career Development and Ministry in Nashua, NH, as well as for The Conference of Baptist Ministers in Massachusetts. She is also the Choral Accompanist at Montana State University and sings professionally with a number of groups in the Bozeman and Chicago areas. Erin thoroughly enjoys organization and office work as her correlating career to her work as a musician and has a great passion for working with churches and church organizations.
As a collaborator, Erin has had the pleasure of performing a multitude of genres and art forms, from musicals, to operas, to world premier choral works. In 2017 she was selected as the accompanist for the Montana All State Choir and was recently the rehearsal accompanist for a performance of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro by the Boston Opera Collaborative. Erin is also a member of the Chroma Collective, a teaching-artist ensemble that combines art and music in interactive performances. Erin also has a love for singing in a choral setting – she is a member of the Montana-based professional choir, Roots in the Sky, with which she recently performed the world premiere of in nature by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, David Lang, in collaboration with The Crossing. She also sings professionally with the Music of the Baroque and the Chicago-based new music choirs, Stare at the Sun and the William Ferris Chorale.
Erin received her Master of Music in Collaborative Piano from Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA, where she studied piano with Steinway Artist Spencer Myer and voice with Angela Gooch. Erin earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music, a minor in German, and an Honors Baccalaureate, magna cum laude, from Montana State University–Bozeman in 2018, where she studied both piano and voice. She currently holds the position of Pianist/Organist and Office Administrator for Hope Lutheran Church in Bozeman, MT, and also works as the Choral Accompanist at Montana State University. In her free time, Erin enjoys hiking in the mountains, doing puzzles with a cup of hot tea, watching true crime documentaries with her husband, Logan, and hanging out with her cat, Barbara.