Eric B. Davis is a versatile New York freelance musician and educator active in multiple genres from classical to commercial. Recent projects include Lincoln Center’s 2025 current revival of Ragtime, The Gardens of Anuncia, Broadway’s New York, New York, and the lead guitarist on Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill. In all, Eric has played on over 20 Broadway shows including Pulitzer-Prize winning Next to Normal, Matilda the Musical, the 2011 revival of Anything Goes, among others. Since 2012, he has been Kristin Chenoweth’s touring guitarist in dozens of cities and venues which include The Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and “The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration” which aired on ABC and Disney+.
Performance credits include concerts with The New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Tony Awards orchestra, television performances on The View, The Today show, Good Morning America, Steven Colbert, Morning Joe, and David Letterman. He contributed to the Grammy-winning cast recording Jagged Little Pill, and Grammy-nominated recordings Next to Normal, The Prom, Anything Goes, Matilda the Musical, and Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater’s Some Lovers as well as other OBC recordings. Eric’s guitar stylings can be heard via Shutterstock licensing tracks on jingles, film scores, and multiple recordings. He has also published original compositions for Carl Fischer, Wingert-Jones, Tempo Press, Kendor, and Grand Mesa.
Eric formerly served as Distinguished Scholar of Guitar and Music Industry of the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University. Since 2016, he has served as an adjunct lecturer at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, CUNY, where he designs and teaches classes in Guitar Methods, Creative Techniques, Composing and Arranging for School Ensemble, Secondary General Music Methods, and Modern Band pedagogy.
Eric earned his Master’s degree from The Juilliard School in the first class of guitarists, and a Bachelor’s degree from The San Francisco Conservatory. He proudly performs on a Sergio Abreu and José Ramirez classical guitar, a Les Paul, Brazilian luthier Ivan Freitas (Music Maker Brasil), and a 1956 Gretsch Duo-Jet.