Resume

Education

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

Bachelor of Arts, Music, College of William & Mary

Musical Direction (Theater and Opera)

Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne and Offenbach: Le 66
Opera Picciona, June, 2026

Sullivan: HMS Pinafore, Savoynet Performing Group
International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Buxton, UK, August 2025

Sullivan: Ruddigore, Savoynet Performing Group
International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Buxton, UK, August 2023

Sullivan: 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

Sondheim: iA Little Night Music: Blue Hill Troupe, New York, NY, November 2015

Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance, Savoynet Performing Group
International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Harrogate, UK, August 2015

Sullivan: The Sorcerer, Savoynet Performing Group
International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, Buxton, UK, August 2012

Sullivan: The Mikado: Troupers Light Opera, Stamford, CT, April 2012

Sondheim: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Blue Hill Troupe, New York, NY, October 2011

J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus: Troupers Light Opera, Stamford, CT, April 2011

Sullivan: The Gondoliers: Troupers Light Opera, Stamford, CT, April 2010

Herman: Mame: Blue Hill Troupe, New York, NY, 2007

Bock and Harnick: Fiddler on the Roof: Wildwood Summer Theater, Bethesda, MD

Sullivan: Patience: Sinfonicron Light Opera Company, Williamsburg, VA

Musical Direction (Instrumental Ensemble)

             Guest Conductor, Queer Urban Orchestra, November 2010

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

            Artistic Director, Philadelphia Freedom Band, 1991-1993

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

Honors

International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, UK

Best Musical Director and International Champions for Patience (Savoynet),  2018 

The American Prize

2020: Third Place, Opera Conducting

2017: Third Place, Opera/Musical Theater Conducting

2013: Finalist and Judge's Citation, Opera Conducting

2011: Finalist, Orchestral Conducting (Community Orchestra)

Big Apple Corps Concert Band, New York, NY

In honor of his farewell concert as Artistic Director, 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.