Eric Schmidt

Eric has been involved with church music for several decades. First as a children’s choir director, pianist and arranger and now as CLC’s current Director of Music. This alongside a 40 year career as a freelance media composer in Los Angeles. He has composed, orchestrated and conducted the music for over 300 episodes of animated series produced by Disney (Quack Pack, Darkwing Duck, Hercules, Goof Troop and Bonkers) and Warner Bros. (Tazmania, Tinytoons, Animaniacs and The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries) and the stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken and Crossing Swords. His work has been featured in the motion pictures: Kingsglaive, Bounty Killers, Saving Adventure Island, Tom & Jerry and The Magic Ring, Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas, Lakeboat, Beethoven III, The Perfect Storm, Mighty Ducks II A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, Ground Zero, Employee Of The Month, Little Man, Tweety’s High Flying Adventure, My Super Ex-Girlfriend and Just My Luck. He has produced music for the Megatrax library, various commercials and theme park shows for Disney and Universal. He orchestrated and conducted the music for the award winning SONY PLAY STATION video game series Uncharted. He has conducted and orchestrated for pianist John Tesh and orchestrated for the pop group One Republic.

Projects he has worked on have received the following nominations: 2 Grammys, 3 Emmys, 2 Golden Reel Awards and one Annie Award.

For fifteen years Eric was a faculty member of the USC Thornton School of Music, Department of Screen Scoring, where he taught composition, conducting and score analysis.

For three years he was an Arts Commissioner for the City of Santa Clarita.

He is a member of:

• The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
• The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
• The Society of Composers and Lyricists

His concert repertoire includes numerous compositions for concert band, a ballet, one symphony for orchestra, two works for choir, 32 solo piano pieces,16 songs for children’s choir and several chamber works.

Eric studied architecture at Cal Poly SLO, composition at California State University Northridge, film scoring at UCLA, and attended the BMI Earl Hagen Film Scoring Workshop. His concert repertoire includes numerous compositions for concert band, a ballet, one symphony for orchestra, two works for choir, 32 solo piano pieces,16 songs for children’s choir and several chamber works. Eric studied architecture at Cal Poly SLO, composition at California State University Northridge, film scoring at UCLA, and attended the BMI Earl Hagen Film Scoring Workshop.