Sister to world famous Nigel, music is certainly in the blood of the Kennedy family. Erica is a Masters graduate of The Faculty of Music, The University of Melbourne where she studied with William Hennessy and where she is currently undertaking her Doctorate in Musical Performance. Erica is the first violinist with highly acclaimed Flinders Quartet. As a soloist she has won numerous awards, recorded for national television and radio and performed solos with various Australian orchestras including the Tasmanian Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, the Soirées Musicales Orchestra and the Stonnington Symphony.

Erica has studied in the USA with the Vermeer Quartet and the Emerson Quartet, in Switzerland with Hatto Beyerle and in Australia with the Goldner String Quartet and the Melba Quartet and in 2000 she held a scholarship placement at the Australian National Academy of Music.

In 2004 Erica worked with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as acting associate concertmaster/ concertmaster and with Orchestra Victoria as guest concertmaster. She also performed the Brahms double concerto with cellist Zoë Knighton and the Stonnington Symphony. Erica also performs with the Australian Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and this year will be playing with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.