Eric Berlin

Only a few years ago, a hand-me-down DSLR started Eric Berlin’s obsession with photography. His images show a unique perspective as a professional musician living in Western Massachusetts and his summers in the Front Range of Colorado. His recent show “Music for the Eyes” featured images of the most important composers of our time, conductors, soloists and colleagues in the Albany Symphony Orchestra captured in rehearsals and recordings. The accompanying catalog is published by the Photo Center of Troy.

Berlin's primary occupation is as a professional musician. Yamaha Performing Artist Eric Berlin is Principal Trumpet of the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Associate Principal Trumpet of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, a member of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Empire Brass Quintet and Professor of Trumpet at the University of Massachusetts . A champion of the music of our time, he has commissioned, premiered and recorded numerous new works for trumpet including the Grammy Nominated Concerto for Two Trumpets by Stephen Paulus and George Tsontakis’ True Colors for Trumpet and Orchestra - a National Public Radio top ten classical recording of 2017.