Eric Olsen
Piano Faculty, Jazz & Classical
Eric Olsen has two Master of Music degrees, with High Distinction, from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Music degree, magna cum laude, from Syracuse University.
He has crafted a distinguished career in both jazz and classical music, as a pianist and composer, harpsichordist, synthesist, organist, conductor, and accompanist. He has recorded twenty albums to great critical acclaim, with artists Randy Brecker, Ted Nash, George Garzone, Don Braden, Ratzo Harris, Tim Horner, Peter Olsen, Bucky Pizzarelli, Lou Caimano, Jan Carden, Kevin Maynor, and Larry Newcomb, and performed with jazz luminaries Billy Hart and Eliot Zigmund. He has appeared in concert from Carnegie Hall to Birdland, with orchestra in Taiwan, throughout the United States, and overseas in France, Germany, India, the Fiji Islands, and New Zealand.
He is on the faculty at Caldwell University, Montclair State University, and the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts, and is Music Director at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Linden, NJ. More information is available at www.olsensoundscape.com.