Eric Swartzentruber

Eric Swartzentruber

Director Of Admissions

A native of Princeton, New Jersey, Eric Swartzentruber brings to Renaissance a rich background of experience at various East Coast independent schools, all of them intentionally small. While holding his first position as admissions director, Mr. Swartzentruber received his BA in Liberal Studies with a concentration in humanities from Rider University. During subsequent years, he has enjoyed traveling extensively to recruit students from the US and around the world. In 2015 he was one of two US school administrators, along with delegates from schools and Departments of Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, invited to represent Western high schools to Chinese school officials in Hangzhou and Suzhou.

Alongside his school work, Mr. Swartzentruber maintains a career in choral music. He has performed and recorded with many leading ensembles including Early Music New York, Vox Vocal Ensemble, American Boychoir, Chanticleer, Piffaro, Parthenia, and the New York Philharmonic.

With his wife, who is German by birth and a classicist by training, Mr. Swartzentruber shares a love of nature, hiking, cooking, language, sixteenth-century polyphony, current events, theology, art, and their two adult daughters, not necessarily in that order.