Erika Nickrenz (born 1963) is an American classical pianist best known as the pianist for the

Eroica Trio The Eroica Trio is an American piano trio consisting of Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant'Ambrogio, cello. The trio take their name from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. They have toured and recorded widely, and released ...

. Both her parents are professional musicians, her mother, Joanna Nickrenz, a

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-winning pianist and her father a violist. She began playing the piano at age 6 and studied with German Diez at the Claudio Arrau School in

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. She began playing with

Adela Peña Adela Peña is an American violinist best known as a founding member of the Eroica Trio. She was born in New York City and began playing the violin at age 4. In New York, she studied at the Henry Street Music School with violin/viola teacher Roch ...

, the violinist in the

, when they were both 9. She made her concerto debut at 11 at New York's Town Hall. She met Sara Sant'Ambrogio, the third member of the trio, at 12 when she studied with Sara's grandmother, Isabelle Sant'Ambrogio. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from the

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where she studied with Abbey Simon.

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