Eric Allen is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger living in Brooklyn.

Allen has created arrangements for Regina Spektor, Cynthia Erivo, Diana Ross, William Shatner, Ben Folds, Bun B, and many other professional artists. His arrangements have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, and Oregon Symphony, and have been broadcast on ABC and PBS.

Allen has performed in venues all over New York City, including Carnegie Hall, Dizzy's Club, National Sawdust, Nederlander Theatre, and Brooks Atkinson Theatre. He has performed with Courtney Love, LCD Soundsystem, and many others. He can be seen in the orchestras of shows Mozart in the Jungle and Dickinson.

Allen was a member of both the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, where he received the Jean Banks Musical Theatre Award in 2016.

Allen earned his master's degree at Indiana University and his bachelor's at Portland State University. He has studied Arabic music with oud and violin master Simon Shaheen and sarangi with the late Ramesh Mishra.

Orchestral Arranging Resume: PDF