Musicatlas
Music
Complete list of works
Orchestral
- Emerald, string orchestra, 1996
- Brouhaha!, 1997
- Of or Pertaining…, small orchestra, 1998
- The Witching Hour, 1998
- The Rise and Fall of the Nefarious Peach Ush, 2005
Theater
- The Cask of Amontillado, a chamber opera in one act, 2005
Chamber music
- Clouds and Warfare, alto saxophone, 1994
- String Quartet No. 1, 1994-95
- Cathedral, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 1995
- Minimalist Funk Study No. 1, 2 violins, viola, 2 celli, 1995, revised 1997
- A Taoist Meditation, clarinet, cello, viola, 1996
- Serenade, guitar, violin, double bass, piano, percussion, 1997
- Piano Trio, violin, cello, piano, 1998
- American Pumpkin, clarinet, violin, piano, 2000
- Platypus Feet, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 2000
- Simply the Cats Pajamas, amplified cello, amplified piano, 2001
- Snap, Crackle, flute, cello, piano, 2001
- The Philostopher Speaks, flute, clarinet, French horn, string quartet, double bass, piano, 2001
- Rock Star, clarinet, 2001
- Zymurgy, electric guitar (with sampler pedal), 2001
- Diabolus in Musica, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2002
- Post, clarinet, piano, percussion, 2002
- Dos Leches Para el Hombre, 2 electric guitars, 2002
- We the People, piano, percussion, 2002
- Macabre, 3 percussion, 2003
- SYmbiotic, French horn, percussion, 2003
- The Haunted Palace (text by Edgar Allan Poe), speaker ad libitum, guitar, 2003
- Thunk!… A Ghost Story, string quartet 2004
- Shame, septet 2004
- The Beantown Masacree, solo woodwind and tape, 2005
Vocal
- Three Songs from James Joyce’s ‘Chamber Music’, soprano, piano, 1996
- The Mental Travler (text by William Blake), tenor, oboe, harp, cello, percussion, 1999
- The Spirits of the Dead – A Gothic Monodrama (text by Edgar Allan Poe), baritone, piano, 2000
- When old corruption first begun (text by William Blake), amplified high voice (with processing), piano, 2002
- Modern Love, baritone and cello, 2004
- The Conqueror Worm (text by Edgar Allan Poe), mezzo soprano, alto sax, percussion, cello, 2005
Piano
- three images, 1997 the sixth toe, 2002
- 24 ways of looking at a piano, piano w/electronic modulation, 2004-05
- a love song for ogre, 2005
- the incredible, disappearing, vampire music, 2006
Dance
- Music for Dance #1, 2004
- Correlation, 2005
- Elegy, 2005
Life
Eric Schwartz has studied composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, New York University, and both the Interlochen and Aspen Summer Music Festivals. Past teachers have included Margaret Brouwer, Donald Erb, George Tsontakis, and Randy Woolf. His diverse musical background is also made up of screaming and performance art for various metal and art rock groups, playing guitar in jazz big bands, and accompanying modern dance classes on the piano. Interested in a synthesis of seemingly disparate musical styles, Schwartz is always at work on a variety of genre bending projects. Formative influences include an amalgamation of the glam metal of the late 80’s, and the baroque intellectualism of Arnold Schoenberg. More recently, an interest in increasingly theatrical elements has carved a path towards new directions both in musical construction and philosophy.
His music has been performed at various venues throughout New York City, from The Knitting Factory to Merkin Concert Hall, as well as such far flung places as Bucharest, Romania and Thunder Bay, Ontario. He has received awards and grants from ASCAP, The Society for New Music, The Puffin Foundation, The Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and The Ohio Federation of College Music Clubs. Schwartz has served on the faculties of New York University, Hunter College, and the Lucy Moses Music School, and is the artistic director of the Brooklyn, NY based experimental music group Forecast Music. His debut CD “24 Ways of Looking at a Piano” recently listed as one of the top classical CDs of 2005 by the All Music Guide, is available from Centaur Records.