About
Jason K. Eckardt is a Professor at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, part of the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts. A graduate of Berklee College of Music (B.A. 1992), Columbia University (M.A. 1994, D.M.A. 1998), he co-founded contemporary music group Ensemble 21 and serves on the CUNY Graduate Center faculty.
- Research Focus: Composition, post-tonal theory, extended performance techniques, and music cognition
- Commission Recipient: Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, Guggenheim Museum, and Fromm Foundation
- Recordings: Released on Albany, Mode, Tzadik, and New Focus labels
His academic leadership includes awards from PSC-CUNY, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Koussevitzky Foundation, and Guggenheim Fellowship. Notable compositions like "Echoes' White Veil," "The Silenced," and "Tangled Loops" demonstrate exploration of perceptual complexity and natural self-organizing systems in music. Recent performances include collaborations with JACK Quartet, ICE, and soloists like Conrad Tao and Claire Chase.
Scientific Awards include:
- Morton Gould Prize (ASCAP)
- Charles Ives Fellowship (American Academy of Arts and Letters)
- Bellagio Fellowship (Rockefeller Foundation)
- Koussevitzky Music Foundation commission
- Andrew Mellon Presidential Fellowship
As educator, he teaches courses in advanced analysis, contemporary music, 20th-century music history, and media scoring. His creative work has been performed at major international festivals in Vienna, Tokyo, Berlin, and Melbourne, with recordings featured on Mode Records' Undersong and Tzadik Records' Subject albums.
