Education

Master of Music, French Horn Performance (voice minor), Peabody Conservatory

Bachelor of Arts, Music, College of William & Mary

Musical Direction (Theater)

Patience, Savoynet Performing Group: Best Production and Best Musical Director

            International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Harrogate, UK, August 2018

Concerts and Choral Director, Blue Hill Troupe, 2015 - 2017

A Little Night Music

            Blue Hill Troupe, New York, NY, November 2015

The Pirates of Penzance, Savoynet Performing Group

            International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Harrogate, UK, August 2015

The Sorcerer, Savoynet Performing Group

            International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Buxton, UK, August 2012

The Mikado

            Troupers Light Opera, Stamford, CT, April 2012

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

            Blue Hill Troupe, New York, NY, October 2011

Die Fledermaus

            Troupers Light Opera, Stamford, CT, April 2011

G&S on Wall Street (Gilbert & Sullivan pastiche by Charles Veley)

            Troupers Light Opera/Wilton Playshop, Wilton, CT, October 2010

Love...Interrupted! (also producer, performer)

            Cosmopolitan Players, International G&S Festival, Gettysburg, PA, June 2010

The Gondoliers 

            Troupers Light Opera, Stamford, CT, April 2010

The Grand Duke (assistant musical director), Savoynet

            International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Buxton, UK, August 2009

Mame

            Blue Hill Troupe, New York, NY, 2007

Little Mary Sunshine

            Plays and Players, Philadelphia, PA

Serious Bizness (also pianist)

            Stra-Bis-Mus, Philadelphia, PA

Fiddler on the Roof

            Wildwood Summer Theater, Bethesda, MD

Patience

            Sinfonicron Light Opera Company, Williamsburg, VA

Musical Direction (Instrumental Ensemble)

             Guest Conductor, Queer Urban Orchestra, November 2010

             Chamber music workshops, LGBA conference 2008

            Artistic Director, Big Apple Corps Concert Band, 1998-2005.

            Artistic Director, Philadelphia Freedom Band, 1991-1993

            Artistic Director, LGBA Spring Conference Concert, 1992

Guest conductor, Baltimore’s Star-Spangled Band, 1992

Chamber Music

LGBAC chamber music concerts (four during EP's tenure as AD)

Chamber music coach, Deliciously Wicked LGBA Conference 2008

Hornist, Metropolitan Winds woodwind quintet, 1995-98

Honors

The American Prize:

2020: Finalist, Opera Conducting

2017: Third Place, Opera/Musical Theater Conducting

2013: Finalist and Judge's Citation, Opera Conducting

2011: Finalist, Orchestral Conducting (Community Orchestra)

2011: Semi-Finalist, Opera Conducting

2005: In honor of his farewell concert with the Big Apple Corps, Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields declared April 16, 2005 to be Maestro Eric Peterson Day.

Other

Singer, actor, pianist, all brass instruments, many woodwinds, string bass, percussion.

Gilbert & Sullivan specialist, extensive knowledge of the entire canon.