[1] Griswold began playing piano at the age of five, and has cited his early influences as Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartok, and Miles Davis, and later Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington as he became more interested in improvisation.
[4] In 2020 ABC Classics commissioned a new 15-minute work from Griswold to have its premier at the 2021 Brisbane Music Festival.
[5] The work How Strange the Change was inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, while the title was in homage to Cole Porter’s Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye.
[6] Erik Griswold has released music with his partner percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson as Clocked Out Duo.
[9] In 2015 they celebrated 15 years of making music together, having toured internationally and already released eight albums together at the time.