Tenor

Lauded by the Boston Classical Review for his “expressive energy and ringing high notes,” deemed “sweet and appealing” by the Boston Globe, and complimented for his “clear and even tone” by New York Arts, Eric Christopher Perry is gaining an international reputation for his “indefatigable” energy and his imaginative chamber music performance as a conductor, vocal artist, and educator.

Eric made his professional singing debut at the Fredonia Bach and Beyond Festival under the baton of Grant Cooper in 2007. In 2010 he joined the Grammy-award winning Phoenix Chorale as a soloist in Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium during the inaugural Arizona Bach Festival. Later that season he made his national symphony debut as The Milkman in Krása’s children’s opera, Brundibár, with the Phoenix Symphony. In June of 2011 he was awarded the Ivars Taurins Fellowship with the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in Toronto. Since, he has performed across the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, Iceland, Japan, and throughout Australia.

Eric relocated to Boston in 2012 and has performed as a critically-acclaimed soloist with The Boston Camerata, Cantata Singers, Musica Sacra, Ashmont Hill Chamber Music, Orpheus Singers, Capella Clausura, New Hampshire Master Chorale, Andover Choral Society, Singers of Stow, Cambridge Chamber Singers, University of Massachusetts Bach Festival, and Cambridge Concentus.

Eric is frequently seen with the Handel and Haydn Society as a soloist and a member of the ensemble, In 2018 he sang the role of Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea as part of the Connecticut Early Music Festival in 2018. He has also appeared in H+H recordings and in H+H featured lunchtime recitals at King’s Chapel in Boston and concerts of music by Black composers at Boston’s Museum of African American History. Eric is also a proud member of Emmanuel Music, with whom he has sung over fifty cantatas as an ensemble member or soloist, and has appeared with Spire Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Phoenicia International Festival of Voice, and as a guest soloist at Colorado State University, Louisiana State University, College of Southern Idaho, Tennessee Wesleyan College, and Hamilton College, among others.

Eric is the Artistic Director, conductor, and a founding member of Renaissance Men, New England’s professional male vocal chamber ensemble. Founded in 2014, RenMen has toured extensively across New England and beyond. Their debut record, RenMen Laments, produced by Grammy Award-winning producer and vocal engineer Chris Sclafani on the Navona Records label.

A devoted music educator, from 2017-2022 Eric served as the Director of Choral and Vocal Activities at Colby College in Waterville, Maine and also worked as Executive Director and Interim Artistic Director of the Nahant Music Festival. Eric previously taught at the Phillips Academy Andover, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Plymouth State University, New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, and Federation University Australia in Ballarat, Victoria. He is a proud member of American Choral Directors Association, National Association for Music Education, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.