Jason Eckardt

Jason Eckardt (b. 1971, Princeton, New Jersey) is an American composer. He played guitar in heavy metal and jazz bands before turning to composition after discovering the music of Anton Webern, and studied at Berklee College of Music and at Columbia University (MA, DMA), principally with Jonathan Kramer, with further work in masterclasses with Milton Babbitt, James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey and Karlheinz Stockhausen. His music has been performed and recorded by the JACK Quartet, the International Contemporary Ensemble and Ensemble 21, which he co-founded. He has taught at Columbia University, the Peabody Conservatory, Oberlin, New York University, Rutgers and Northwestern, and is Distinguished Professor of Composition at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)
• Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, MacDowell and Millay
• Morton Gould Award, ASCAP
• Rapoport Prize, Columbia University