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Eric Street is Professor of Music and coordinates keyboard studies at the University of Dayton. He joined the UD faculty after teaching at Indiana University, the University of California (Santa Barbara) and Bethany College, where he was the youngest faculty member to be appointed Distinguished Professor. From 2004–08 he served as Graul Endowed Chair in Arts and Languages. He earned his M.M. and D.M. at Indiana University School of Music under Grammy Award winning Menahem Pressler, with post-doctoral study in Vienna under Paul Badura-Skoda. As tour leader and interpreter he has led numerous student and adult groups to Aix en Provence, Athens, Augsburg, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Florence, London, Paris, Sicily and Vienna. He holds certificates in German (Vienna) and Italian (Rome).

As a pianist he has won acclaim on six continents, with performances in 36 countries. His concerts have been telecast in the U.S., Asia, Middle East and Europe, including a broadcast across Russia over the Kultur network from the American Embassy in Moscow. Standing ovations followed his debuts in Carnegie Recital Hall, Paris, Cairo, London, St. Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Rome, Berlin, Milan, Vienna, Salzburg and Prague. In his 12-concert Japan tour, Tokyo University News stated "the whole performance was wonderful and captivated the audience." 

As an ensemble artist, Eric Street has toured the world as part of “Side by Side” piano duo, and accompanied more than two dozen singers from the Metropolitan and New York City Opera rosters.  He also toured as pianist with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. 

Dr. Street’s articles appear in over one-hundred-thirty periodicals, including Clavier, Keyboard Quarterly, and Opera Journal. The London Guardian has cited his research. For a number of years he covered opera locally for the Dayton City Paper. Heritage Music Press and Wehr’s Music House publish his compositions, and the Ohio Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts have sponsored many of his US performances.