Eric Hansen has been Professor of Double Bass at Brigham Young University since 2001. Ensemble experience includes positions with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Baltimore Opera, the Richmond Symphony, the National Chamber Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Musick Barock Ensemble, and engagements with the Funkhausorchester of the WDR Cologne, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and ongoing with the Utah Symphony.

An active recitalist and clinician, Eric has performed/worked across the U.S., Canada, Poland, Austria, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica, Montenegro, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, China, and Russia. He received both a BM and MM degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, and did DMA studies at the University of Maryland College Park.

His primary teachers were Audrey Bush, Eugene Levinson, and Hal Robinson.