Eric is an award-winning classical composer who also writes music for theater, television and film. His newest album is New York Pretending to be Paris, a collection of art songs on texts of contemporary poetry. textura.org named it one of the top ten classical vocal albums of 2022 and said, “A wonderful collection of art songs. Schorr's gift for tone painting is evident throughout. His lyrical style dovetails seamlessly with the yearning articulated movingly by the poets. The songs sparkle. Portraits about courtship, a small-town psychic, a harried mother and vengeful wife, and gay men longing for love and to belong—human stories infused with humanity, in other words—have the capacity to resonate for anyone with a beating heart.” Fanfare Magazine: “A captivating disc…Schorr embraces the opportunity to depict musically the profound emotional responses to instances of daily life. His music is affecting — and brimming with melody and humanity. Puccini was a master of this approach, and Schorr’s songs are a worthy successor to that tradition.” Opera News: "Exquisite art songs…Schorr’s style is elegant and emotionally sincere…The melancholic beauty of his tonal world inhabits the same lonely spaces as Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper’s canvases. In a word, Schorr has mastered the art of bittersweetness. He’s a first-rate tunesmith and his melodies hark back to Sondheim, Barber and Elgar." For more information about Eric’s musical adventures, please visit www.ericschorr.com