A native of Fairmont, Minnesota, Eric Head is a pianist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the 2025/26 season, he will join Palm Beach Opera as their Apprentice Pianist. 

A two-time vocal piano fellow at The Music Academy of the West, Eric has assisted on productions of Bizet's Carmen, Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, and Mozart's Don Giovanni, in which he was selected to play harpsichord for rehearsals and performances. Passionate about art song repertoire, he was named the winner of the 2024 Marilyn Horne Song Competition. Also at the Music Academy of the West, he was a part of a premiere performance of scenes from Huang Ruo's new opera The Monkey King. 

Eric recently graduated with his M.M. in Collaborative Piano from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Martin Katz and Ana Maria Otamendi. During his time at The University of Michigan, he coached the 2024 university production of Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and maintained a roster of singers ranging from the undergraduate to the doctoral levels. He was selected to be a part of the music staff for the workshop performance of Christopher Theofanidis's Siddhartha, She in March 2025. A versatile performer, he worked as the rehearsal pianist for the University of Michigan's Musical Theater Department production of Maury Yeston's Titanic in April 2025. 

Eric holds a B.A. in Piano Performance and Communication Studies from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. During his time at Luther, he assisted on opera department productions of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Strauss's Die Fledermaus, and Purcell's Dido and Aenaes,  theater department productions of Into the Woods and Heathers: the Musical, and over fifty vocal and instrumental student recitals. He is the first-ever two-time winner of the Rosholt Distinction in Accompanying Prize, was named the Presser Undergraduate Scholar in 2022/23, and won the Luther College concerto competition in 2021 with Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto. 

Eric is particularly passionate about Nordic art song and has worked to make this repertoire more accessible. As a  speaker of Swedish, he is currently working on a more comprehensive diction and repertoire resource for singers, pianists, and coaches.