1. biografia

[amministratore_1]

Jason ECKARDT
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New York, USA
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mail: ping@ensemble21.co
http://www.ensemble21.com/eckardt/home.html
luogo e data di nascita: Princeton (USA), 1971

He began his musical life playing guitar in heavy metal and jazz bands and abruptly moved to composing after discovering the music of Anton Webern.
Atonal and microtonal harmony, intricate rhythms, highly polyphonic textures and large-scale transformational processes are prevalent in Eckardt’s compositions.
Major works include After Serra (2000) for chamber ensemble, Tongues (2001) for soprano and chamber ensemble, Reul na Coille (2002) for percussion and orchestra, Trespass (2005) for piano and chamber orchestra and the Undersong cycle (2002–2008).
Some of Eckardt's compositions are inspired by extramusical subjects, such as extraordinary rendition (Rendition), the sculptures of Richard Serra (After Serra), W.S. Merwin's poem "Echoes" (Echoes' White Veil). Eckardt has also written about the influence of research in cognitive psychology on his compositional techniques.
Eckardt has received commissions for his work from several major institutions and performers including Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, the Koussevitzky Foundation (1999, 2011), the Guggenheim Museum, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University (1996, 2008), Chamber Music America, the New York State Music Fund, Meet the Composer, the Oberlin Conservatory and percussionist Evelyn Glennie. His works have been programmed internationally by festivals including the Festival d'Automne a Paris, IRCAM-Resonances, ISCM World Music Days (1999, 2000), Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Voix Nouvelles, Musik im 20. Jahrhundert, Musikhost, Currents in Musical Thought-Seoul, New Consortium, International Review of Contemporary Music, Festival of New American Music and the International Bartok Festival. Eckardt’s catalog is published by Carl Fischer Music.
Eckardt has taught composition, theory and musicology at Columbia University, the Oberlin Conservatory, New York University, the University of Illinois, Rutgers University, and Northwestern University. He is also the co-founder of Ensemble 21, the contemporary music chamber ensemble based in New York City.
He is currently Associate Professor of composition at City University of New York’s Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College and Graduate Center.