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Eric Kramer is an internationally experienced conductor, composer and pianist. He is the founder and current music director of Collegium Westchester, serves as assistant conductor for the Bronx Opera, and is the music director of the First Presbyterian Church of Ossining. He is also a recipient of a Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Career Development Grant for 2008-2009. While still in high school, Mr. Kramer played his own piano concerto with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and studied composition and piano with Easley Blackwood. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he studied under Peter Lieberson and received accolades from Leonard Bernstein for a performance in which he conducted some of his own compositions. After earning a master's degree in conducting under Michael Charry at the Mannes College of Music, he served as chorus director for the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera and the Connecticut Grand Opera, and coach/pianist and education tour music director for the Virginia Opera. He has also guest conducted the Westchester Chorale, and the Chappaqua Orchestra in a joint concert with Collegium Westchester. Mr. Kramer has also been active in Europe: he has conducted the Kromeriz Chamber Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic, and the Solti Chamber Orchestra in performance and/or recording, and worked as assistant conductor to Iván Fischer with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Opéra National de Lyon. |