Eric J. Schwartz
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Eric J. Schwartz is an American composer
specializing in frequently eerie and/or wacky experimental chamber music
. He is the Artistic Director of Forecast Music, and the Music Director of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
School of Dance. Schwartz describes his work as "genre bending", and cites diverse influences ranging from glam metal
to Arnold Schoenberg
.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
specializing in frequently eerie and/or wacky experimental chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
. He is the Artistic Director of Forecast Music, and the Music Director of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts , formerly the North Carolina School of the Arts, is a public coeducational arts conservatory in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that grants high school, undergraduate and graduate degrees. It is one of the seventeen constituent campuses of the...
School of Dance. Schwartz describes his work as "genre bending", and cites diverse influences ranging from glam metal
Glam metal
Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...
to Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
.