Pitcher-Perfect is a fun, new Happy Hour series by the Lunar Ensemble which features the music of a local composer + FREE Pitchers of Natty Boh + Doodling Stations

Our first concert in this series will feature music by Jason Eckardt! Come get to know Jason and his music over an ice-cold Natty Boh. Doors open at 4:30, music begins at 5:15. Tickets are available at the door.

Praised as "brilliant" (New York Times), "dazzling" (BBC), and "emotionally resonating" (Los Angeles Times), Jason Eckardt's music combines richly complex surfaces with striking structural clarity, yielding works that are at once visceral in their impact and compelling in their intellectual rigor. his aesthetic both embrace the modernist tradition and expands it through his exploration of new harmonic and timbral resources.
 
Jason Eckardt (b. 1971) played guitar in jazz and metal bands until, upon first hearing the music of Webern, he immediately devoted himself to composition. Since then, his music has been influenced by his interests in perceptual complexity, the physical and psychological dimensions of performance, political activism, and self-organizing processes in the natural world. He has been recognized through commissions from Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, the Koussevitzky Foundation (2000, 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; awards from the League of Composers/ISCM (National Prize), Deutschen Musikrat-Stadt Wesel (Symposium NRW Prize), the Aaron Copland Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, ASCAP, the University of Illinois (Martirano Prize), the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and Columbia University (Rapoport Prize); and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fondation Royaumont, the MacDowell and Millay Colonies, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music, the Composers Conference at Wellesley, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music. His music is published by Carl Fischer.