Eric Guinivan's music is characterized by a unique blend of delicately simple musical textures and highly intricate rhythmic processes. Eric's works have been performed across the United States as well as in France and Japan. His music has received several awards and honors, including the ASCAP Morton Gould Composition Award, the BMI Student Composer Award, 2nd Place in the 2007 Quey Percussion Duo Composition Contest, and a nomination for Best Original Score in the 2005 New England College Film Festival. Eric has received commissions from the New York Symphony Singers in New York, New York and the Delaware Youth Symphony Orchestra in Wilmington, Delaware.

A percussionist since age ten, Eric is currently the Principal Timpanist of the YMF Debut Orchestra in Los Angeles. He studied percussion with Gerald Carlyss, Tony Cirone, and Steve Houghton at Indiana University and became a two-time recipient of IU's Performer's Certificate. His compositions for percussion are published by HoneyRock Percussion Publishers and are available through Steve Weiss Music.

Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, Eric received Bachelor of Music Degrees in Composition and Percussion Performance from Indiana University. Eric is currently pursuing a Master of Music Degree from USC where he studies composition with Stephen Hartke and Percussion with Erik Forrester.