Eric is a freelance musician in the Bay Area. He has hundreds of theater show performances under his belt in addition to numerous jazz, and rock/pop group performances.

He is proficient on saxophones, flutes, piccolo, clarinets and oboe. He also plays a little EWI, but only on Monday nights.

Eric can be found here, and there. Usually there. There being Jazz-Sax.Com

About

My Musical and non-musical resumes

Resume

The core is a Macintosh MacPro 2.88Ghz Dual Quad Core Xeon Processors with 8 gigs of Ram. A Proteus 1, Roland SC-8820, Roland XV2020, and Alesis NanoPiano provide some sounds, Garritan Jazz Band, Garritan Personal Orchestra stuff, and Kontkat 4 provide the rest. Project Mix I/O is the interface of choice.

Software I use includes Digital Performer 7, Logic Studio 9, Finale, Sibelius, Band in a Box 2010 and Protools 8 M-Powered.

HomeStudio

Currently teaching saxophone, clarinet, flute and oboe at Campana Music in Lafayette, CA. I have almost 15 years teaching experience on the various instruments I play.

My teaching studio is comprised of:
iMac 17″ 2 gigahertz Core 2 Duo with 3 gigabytes of ram
OS X 10.6
Dell 22″ monitor (for use with Finale, Adobe Reader and Smartmusic)
Digital Performer 7.12
ProTools 8 M-Powered
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra
AKG-C414 ULS microphone
Sennheiser 421 microphone
KRK V4 speakers
Roland KC550 amp
M-Audio Axiom 61 Keyboard
Some other software used would be:
Finale, Band in a Box 2010, SmartMusic, Transcribe (great to drag things out of iTunes to play slower), and iTunes

Teaching

I currently play on:

  • Zentner Wood Piccolo
  • Haynes closed hole flute
  • Yamaha 581 (with split G) flute (sometimes with a Sankyo Headjoint)
  • Armstrong Alto Flute
  • Loree C+3 Oboe (usually with Good Tone Guild Reeds)
  • Buffet R-13 clarinet with a Caravan mouthpiece and Vandoren V12 4 reeds
  • Yanagisawa curved soprano with a Berg Larsen 85/1 rubber mouthpiece with vandoren 3 reeds
  • Selmer Mark VI alto saxophone with a vintage Meyer brothers mouthpiece (worked on by the late, great Jon Van Wie) with an Oleg ligature and Rico Jazz Select unfiled 3 reeds
  • Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone with a Berg Larsen 110/2 hard rubber mouthpiece with an Oleg ligature and Rico Plasticover 3 reeds
  • Akai EWI 4000S

Instruments

Here are just a few of the things I’ve done
Super Mario Medley
Tank!
Rush
Save The Last Dance For Me
In The Xmas Mood

Works

CDs
Here are three things I edited and mixed for a Lady K and the Kings of Swing debut CD. Sing Sing Sing and Bill Bailey didn’t make it on the CD :-(

Sing Sing Sing (Me on Clarinet)
BillBailey (Me on Tenor)
Shiny Stockings (Me on Trumpet…..NOT!)

Saxophone Recordings
Flute Recordings
Clarinet Recordings
Oboe Recordings

Recordings

No shows booked at the moment.

Calendar

My Musical and non-musical resumes

Resume