Eric Dannewitz is an accomplished teacher and musician with more than 17 years of woodwind teaching experiece, 20 years of professional playing, professional musical arrangements, and recording mixing and producing. Committed to providing students with a solid foundation in music fundamentals while making music education fun and interesting.
He is teaching thousands of custom arrangements of pop, rock, broadway, classical, jazz, and movies songs that are not available in books are used to challenge and motivate students to play what they like while getting better. SmartMusic from MakeMusic is also utilized for working on Orchestra, Band, and Solo repertoire.
As a performer Eric has played and currently plays with several local bands such as Spill The Wine, The Future Past, A Touch Of Class, Lady K and the Kings of Swing (Jazz Band), Bay Area Big Band (Jazz Band), Mike Vax Big Band (Jazz Band), OtherKind (R&B), Cal State University Hayward Wind and Jazz Ensembles, Diablo Valley College Night Jazz Ensemble. Eric also has done playing, arranging, composition for commercials and TV in association with Roaring Mouse Productions.
Eric has also played well over a hundred theater productions across the Bay Area on various woodwinds. Musicals such as Fiddler on The Roof, Man Of La Mancha, Phantom Of The Opera, Les Miserables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat, Aladdin, 110 In The Shade, Cabaret, Urine Town, Narnia, Drowsy Chaperone, West Side Story, The Wiz, The Wizard of Oz, TinTypes, Grease, A Chorus Line, Evita, Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Cinderella, Oklahoma, Sweet Charity, and How To Succeed in Business to name but a few. Theater companies played with include CCMT, DLOC, DVC, Berkeley Playhouse, Broadway By The Bay, SF Playhouse, Cal Performances, and 42nd Street Moon.
Eric recieved his BA in Music Performance at California State University East Bay. He studied Clarinet with William Wohlmacher, Saxophone with Daniel Zinn, Guido Fazio and William Trimble, Flute with Roberta Brokaw, Oboe with Brenda Schumann-Post, Jazz and Jazz Arranging with Dave Eshelman.
Eric also has mixing credits for 10 songs off Lady K and the Kings of Swing album Live at Blackhawk.