Professor ERLING R. ERIKSEN teaches at the University of Stavanger, Department of Music and Dance and at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo.
He studied with professor Einar Steen-Nøkleberg and professor Hans Leygraf at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, and with professor Alfons Kontarsky at Hochschule für Musik, München. Meisterklassendiplom 1981.
After a successful debut in Oslo in 1978, ha has given concerts in many european cities, as well as in USA, Canada, China and Japan.
In 2007 his complete recording of J.S.Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier was highly acclaimed by the critics.

Other CD-recordings:
Piano Music by Eyvind Alnæs (Toccata Classics 2011),
Songs by Eyvind Alnæs (Simax), Edvard Grieg (Naxos) and Christian Sinding (Naxos) with soprano Bodil Arnesen.
1-2-3 Happy Happy Happy! With Stavanger New Music Ensemble.

During the last years Eriksen has cooperated closely with his professorcolleague in Stavanger, soprano Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz and mezzosoprano Ann-Beth Solvang. He has given masterclasses in Roma, Pescara, Nanjing, Weimar, Stockholm, Oslo, Paris and Guangzhou.

In 2000 he was awarded the Griegprize.