Eric Allaman is an American composer who has worked in Film, Television, Theater, and Ballet. Eric’s scores have been performed and recorded with orchestras in Moscow, Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia, Berlin, Germany, Belgrade, Serbia, Prague, Czech Republic, and Skopje, North Macedonia.
The Early Years
Born in Springfield, Missouri, Eric’s family moved around the Midwest and eventually settled in Dana Point, California. Eric began studying the piano at age seven and the guitar at age sixteen and continued his studies at UCLA with an emphasis in music and theater. He earned a Masters at Cal State Dominguez Hills with an emphasis in Literature.
Early Career
Shortly after graduating, Eric moved to Paris, France, and ultimately Berlin, Germany to further his musical career. His career as a film composer began when he co-composed the score to Ridley Scott’s Legend with Tangerine Dream. That opportunity led to Eric re-scoring the silent classic, Battleship Potemkin, a featured event at the Berlin Film Festival. After the success of both films, Eric returned to Los Angeles to field film scoring offers.
Professional Life
Eric has composed the scores for 45 movies and over 600 episodes of television including Duck Dynasty, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Mike Hammer Private Eye, Elvira’s Haunted Hills, Latter Days, Sherlock Holmes, Liberty’s Kids, and Legend to name a few.
In theater, Eric has written four musicals, including Zeitelmoos with Hartmut H. Forche (2022), Wake Up with Bob Garrett (2021), Battleship Potemkin with Jeffrey Couchman (2014), and Voices from the Cellar with Robert White (1989). He has written three ballets with Kim Maselli, (Artistic Director of the Pacific Festival Ballet), Camelot (2019), Noah’s Ark (2010), and The Sea Princess (2007). He has also written the music to several plays, including The Geography of Luck, Dragon Lady, Stendhal, and Relay. Allaman has released two collections of piano solos. What We Whispered is a selection of pieces he composed during the COVID-19 pandemic and was released in 2022. His first solo piano album, Berlin Diary was released in 2010 and plays as a memoir of his life in West Berlin.
Eric has worked with a diverse collection of talent including Jon Voight, Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Tom Cruise, Randy Jackson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kirsten Dunst, Larry the Cable Guy, Shia LaBeouf, Marcus Nispel, RC Matheson, Sam Shepherd, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira), Jon Anderson of Yes, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Rick Springfield, and Tony Award winners: Anthony Crivello, Maryann Plunkett, Alice Ripley, and Billy Porter.
Personal Life
Eric has two sons and is an active surfer and skier and has chased waves all over the world, including the Mentawai Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, Peru, France, Ireland, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands. Eric lives in The Sea Ranch, California.