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Music
Jason Eckardt’s music embraces the modernist aesthetic and expands it through new timbral and harmonic resources.
Life
Jason Eckardt has been recognized through commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation, Carnegie Hall, and the Fromm Foundation; awards from the League/ISCM (National Prize), Stadt Wesel (Symposium NRW Prize), ASCAP, the University of Illinois (Martirano Prize), and Columbia University (Rapoport Prize); and fellowships from the Fondation Royaumont, the MacDowell and Millay Colonies, the Fritz Reiner Center for New Music, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music. Eckardt’s music has been performed in Europe, Asia, Australia, and America at festivals including Darmstadt, ISCM World Music Days, Voix Nouvelles, Musica Nova Sofia, Currents in Musical Thought-Seoul, Musik im 20 Jahrhundert, the International Review of Contemporary Music, and the International Bartók Festival. An active promoter of new music, Eckardt is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Ensemble 21, the contemporary music group in New York City. His compostion "Echoes’ White Veil" appears on pianist Marilyn Nonken’s solo CD on CRI records.