Shocking death of young Boston flute

The death is being shared of Peabody graduate Eric Maul, a flutist well known among Baltimore musicians and in his adopted city, Boston.

No cause of death has yet been made public.

Social media are filling up with loving tributes.

Adam Workman writes: I will never forget the time in Miami that you were getting ready to perform in an early morning class for Marina Piccinini and you discovered that you had left your flute at the dorm with no time to retrieve it. I saw the panic in your eyes and realized that I had a special flute on my table. I said “here take this” and then snuck into the room behind you to hear you perform on this flute that you’ve never played. To this day that performance of The Lark Ascending is one of the most astonishing musical moments I’ve ever witnessed.