Eric Parson dedicates his life to integrating the divergent passions of the music community with his deep love of the practice of artistic integrity. He has invested his passion for music into three primary areas: the creative, technical, and pedagogical. He earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Music from UC Santa Cruz, focusing on guitar performance and music theory.

Eric composes, arranges, directs, and performs music for theater productions, with various bands, and for his solo work.

As an audio engineer, Eric produces recordings, live sound events, and broadcasts.

As a private music instructor, Eric teaches music theory, composition, audio production, and sound design/synthesis.

Eric’s self-produced 2021 film Big Basin Will Never Be The Same won awards for cinematography and music. Press and reviews.

He has also written original music for several theater productions including Homer’s Odyssey (2016), Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (2014), and Shakespeare’s Hamlet (2015) and As You like It (2019).