Oregon Cellist

I will work with you to curate a musical experience that best serves your needs, and you can expect quality of the highest artistic standards.

Cellist Eric Schatz Alterman has led a varied musical life that has spanned continents and genres. Cellist of the Oregon-based Delgani String Quartet, Eric also serves as Assistant Principal Cellist of the Eugene Symphony and member of the Oregon Mozart Players. For five seasons, he performed as a section and assistant principal cellist in the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira, based in Rio de Janeiro. He was frequently featured in the orchestra’s chamber music series, including a performance of Benjamin Britten’s Suite No. 3 for solo cello to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. A frequent chamber music performer in Rio, Eric has appeared in the Rio International Cello Encounter, as a recitalist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and as a producer of his own programs at the Midrash Cultural Center.

Eric grew up in New York City, where he began music studies at a young age at the Mannes College of Music. Going on to receive Bachelors and Masters degrees at Brandeis University and Boston University, he studied cello with former and current Lydian Quartet members, Rhonda Rider and Joshua Gordon, and the late Vermeer Quartet cellist, Marc Johnson. Eric has consistently explored and pursued other genres of music, since his college days performing, arranging, and composing in an Arabic fusion ensemble. In Rio, he was a frequent performer of bossa nova at Copacabana’s famed music bar, Bip Bip, and was a recent participant in the New Directions in Cello Fesitval.