ERIC MAZONSON received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Boston University, where he studied piano with Anthony di Bonaventura, and was studio accompanist for violist Walter Trampler and cellist Leslie Parnas, both founding members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His chamber music coaches include Eugene Lehner, Ralph Gomberg and Robert Marcellus.
Eric spent three years in the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, where he founded the Olympus Chamber Players, a piano-woodwind sextet which toured throughout the Northeastern US. He was also pianist for a very active annual chamber music series held at Eisenhower Hall on post. As piano soloist with the USMA Concert Band, he performed at a number of different venues including Trophy Point Amphitheater at West Point and McGill University.
His wide-ranging repertoire has been heard in many solo, chamber music and vocal recitals in the United States, Canada and Europe, as well as in concerto performances with community orchestras. Eric was affiliated with Bradford College for a number of years, where he taught piano, accompanied the Bradford-Pentucket Chorale and helped to arrange scores for musical theater productions. He has been accompanist for Ocean State Light Opera, Ocean State Lyric Opera, Chaminade Opera Company and Beavertail Opera. He has also played for the Ocean State Follies and is often called upon to play orchestral keyboard parts.
Currently he accompanies the University Chorus at Brandeis University as well as the Lexington Master Singers, with whom he has performed a number of premieres. He is music director at the Evangelical Congregational Church of Harvard, and has been musical director for scenes at the Crittenden Opera Studio workshops in Boston and Washington, DC, He is an adjunct faculty member of Roger Williams University, where he teaches piano and coaches musical theatre. In 2004, he toured Ireland with the URI Concert Choir, where he had the opportunity to accompany the choir from the organ of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland's largest cathedral. He is one half of the cabaret duo Eric X2 with tenor Eric Bronner.
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