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Bio (short)

Eric Schultz is the Director of Electronic and Emerging Music at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He has spent most of his musical career as a composer, producer, music technologist, performer, engineer, and conductor.

Bio (longer)

Eric Schultz is a musician and educator whose diverse body of work frequently jumps between two opposing worlds: acoustic and electronic, mainstream and experimental, and academic and non-academic. Trained as a composer, Eric is a producer, saxophone player, technologist, recording engineer, occasional percussionist, and conductor.

Eric’s academic music has been performed by the San Jose State Wind Symphony, the Iowa State University Symphony Orchestra, the Missouri Fine Arts Academy Choir, and acclaimed pianist Steven Spooner. Eric is one of the founding members of Crossing 32nd Street, in which he has served as technologist, saxophonist, percussionist, and conductor. For a brief but memorable stretch, Eric was the baritone saxophonist in the Ray Price Country Stampede Orchestra in Branson, Missouri.

Eric’s debut electro-acoustic solo album Estuary was released in 2018 under the pseudonym Schltz. Estuary is a confluence of all of Eric’s musical influences, often reflecting the tension between the opposing musical worlds that he has inhabited. Eric composed, produced, performed, recorded, and mixed Estuary.

Eric has recorded and produced a number of recordings in a variety of settings, including working with neo-soul artist Casey Hurt on the album Half as Much as Love, low brass luminaries Sam Pilafian and Patrick Sheridan on The Brass Gym, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams on the Alaskan field recording of Strange and Sacred Noise.

Eric is the Director of Electronic and Emerging Music at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. Eric received his doctorate in composition from Arizona State University, where he studied primarily with Glenn Hackbarth.