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“A talented conductor” ~ Leonard Bernstein “Opening night found the capable Eric Kramer in the pit... Kramer’s twenty- four player orchestra gave a good account of itself” ~ Opera News “Eric Kramer... wrote an effective new overture based on a Weber sketch that Mahler rejected.” ~ New York Times “Eric Kramer presided over a reading that contributed significantly to the evening’s high spirits.” ~ MusicalAmerica.com Upcoming and recent career highlights for conductor, composer, and pianist ERIC KRAMER include making his German conducting debut with the Berlin Sinfonietta in 2010-11, conducting the New York staged premiere of Mahler's Drei Pintos in 2010 (with an added overture he composed), and receiving a Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Career Development Grant for 2008-09. He also continues to serve as music director of Collegium Westchester, assistant conductor for the Bronx Opera, and music director of the First Presbyterian Church of Ossining. 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 composition under Peter Lieberson and received accolades from Leonard Bernstein for a performance in which he conducted some of his own compositions. After a diversion studying, researching, and teaching theoretical physics, he came to New York for graduate study in orchestral conducting at the Mannes College of Music under Michael Charry. Subsequently 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. More recently he guest conducted the Westchester Chorale, and the Chappaqua Orchestra in a joint concert with Collegium Westchester. In Europe Mr. Kramer 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. |