I did have a rough patch, when I wasn’t singing very well, but after three months went by, my voice came back. I did study music, but I’ve been playing and singing since I was five, in one-way or another. I learned music to understand the world my parents were in. I had a good voice, so I was a ringer, when they needed a kid to stand up and sing something. I was going to operas when I was five and performed in my first opera when I was seven. My parents were both opera singers, so I was listening to music really early. Eckert spoke about his musical path from his New York City apartment.ĭo you remember the first music that inspired you and made you want to become a performer? He’s been recording his original music, with the help of various collaborators since the late ‘80s, but he’s never made a solo album until earlier this year, when he cut The Natural World with producer Lee Townsend. He has written operas, plays, librettos for composer Paul Dresher , dance scores for Margaret Jenkins and performed several one-man shows. He’s a Grammy-winning composer, musician, songwriter, performer, writer and director. Rinde Eckert has been a vital part of New York City’s performance art community since the mid-‘80s. So I’m excited to begin this journey with them… I found them warm, intelligent, and engaged. I was able to teach a class last spring in order to get to know what Emerson students are like. RE: I enjoy the variety of talents and sensibilities students bring into the room. He has previously taught at Princeton University, the University of California, Davis and the University of Iowa.ĮCT: What do you most look forward to teaching students? In Fall 2018, Eckert will teach a course at Emerson in devised theatre, in which students will collaboratively devise an original ensemble performance that will be produced during Emerson Stage’s Spring 2019 season. In 2009, he received the Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre, and was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007. In 2012, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist, and won a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance as a collaborator on the album Lonely Motel (Cedille Records). Rinde Eckert, visiting faculty, Waldman Professor in Theatre Arts Will teach: devised theatreĮckert is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer, writer, and director. And at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, an affiliated faculty member becomes a scholar-in-residence. The School of the Arts welcomes eight new faculty members, and has promoted three to assistant professor.
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