Eric Hollander

Eric Hollander is a musicologist, poet, violist, and community music facilitator. He has a BM in viola performance from The Boston Conservatory, an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University, and a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University. Eric wonders about what music is and how it helps while searching for fuller understanding through phenomenological description and spiritual participation. As a poet and performer, Eric is an active member of the Haiga Duo, a spoken-word/viola/accordion ensemble and exercises his enthusiasm for amateur music making with various community, folk, and parish ensembles. As a musicologist, Eric writes and presents on topics bridging the gap between music therapy and music theory. For Eric, music is a way of being amidst the song of God’s creation; music is often a philosophy; music is a rare but precious theology; and music is surely and sublimely a spirituality.