Erika Fox was born in Vienna of Hungarian/Romanian parents and came to London as a refugee from Nazi persecution.
She won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music and studied piano with Angus Morrison and composition with Bernard Stevens, Jeremy Dale Roberts and Harrison Birtwistle.
Her works have been performed and broadcast extensively in the UK, US, Ireland, Canada, Greece, Turkey, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy. She won the Finzi Award for her quartet Kaleidoscope. Her chamber opera The Dancer Hotoke was nominated for an Olivier Award.
Paths, a CD of some of her chamber works was released on the NMC label in 2019. In the same year she received an Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her piano concerto David Spielt Vor Saul was commissioned by the BBC Scottish Orchestra and given its first performance in January 2022 at Glasgow’s City Halls with pianist Julian Jacobson and conductor Geoffrey Paterson. This was broadcast later on BBC Radio 3.
She was interviewed by Norbert Meyn for the RCM archive Music, Migration and Mobility and by Kirill Gerstein for his Kirill Gerstein Invites series, both available on YouTube.