Eric Shimelonis is a composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist. His work ranges from orchestral music to the popular, and spans film, television, theatre, and dance. 

As a score composer, he has worked on both feature films and television documentaries.  The film Winter Passing  was another in a long line of projects with writer/director Adam Rapp, and included music collaborations with Will Ferrell, Ed Harris, and Zooey Deschanel.  In association with nature filmmaker Daniel Breton, he has scored a number of award winning documentaries for the National Audubon Society and for the Houston Zoo, and in collaboration with Discovery they earned a 2008 Daytime Emmy Award.

Eric has worked on over 200 plays in New York, regionally, and internationally.  He has enjoyed collaborations with such theatres as the Atlantic, Arena Stage, City Theatre,  The Goodman,  The Juilliard School, Mabou Mines, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, Second Stage, Southern Rep, Studio Theatre, and Theatreworks USA.  He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, and he was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award. 

In the classical music world, Eric has served as assistant-director with both the Philadelphia and Boston Symphony Orchestras for performances of Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat.  His compositions for string quartet and other small ensembles have been performed at Juilliard and in new music venues around New York, and his song cycle Elusive Things, composed after poems by Ilene Starger, was recently performed by F. Murray Abraham in a sold-out Carnegie Hall performance with the Voice Of The City Ensemble.