About Eric
Eric Powers is a New York based music director, pianist, cellist, composer, arranger, orchestrator, copyist, and actor.
Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Eric graduated cum laude from Northwestern University in 2024 where he studied Theatre (Musical Theatre Certificate) and French. Eric has worked locally in Chicago with theatre credits including Sinister (Chicago Shakespeare Theater workshop), Hello, Dolly! (Marriott Theatre), and Shakespeare in the Parks (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). He has also performed as a pianist and singer in numerous cabarets in New York and Chicago, with his original music produced at venues such as Edinburgh Fringe, 54 Below and the Green Room 42. An adept sight-reader, he worked as an accompanist for Northwestern University for 3 years and has worked as an accompanist for the National High School Institute since 2023.
While at Northwestern he music directed and piano conducted Violet (2023) and Working: The Musical - Localized Version (2024) for the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. Additionally he was very involved in new work development at Northwestern, music directing and arranging for the Wirtz Center's The Great Sea Serpent (2024) and working for four years writing and orchestrating for the Waa-Mu Show, serving as Music Director in 2024, Lead Orchestrator in 2023, and Music Coordinator in 2022. He also composed and performed an original piano score for a Northwestern University production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
His musical, Missed Connections, written in collaboration with Rachel Arianna premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2025.
Read below to check out some of his projects and to hear about his time as an English teacher in France from 2024-2025!
Projects
A Year in Gisors
Most recently, Eric has just returned from spending the 2024-2025 school year working as a high school English teacher in Gisors, France. The skills he learned about leading a classroom gave him a unique, enriched perspective on music direction and the communicative arts. While there he composed and performed the debut of his Concerto for Solo Piano in e minor and Piano Sonata in f minor in Montagny-en-Vexin in collaboration with Dumas Pianos.
Pet Sitting
Eric loves to pet sit, and he promises to serenade your pets with piano and cello music. Reach out if you are ever in need!
Pictured is Eric and Archer, his most recent client.
