Rinde Eckert

On the Great Migration of Excellent Birds

Using hundreds of Portland voices raised in song, composer Rinde Eckert kicks off TBA:07 with a joyful noise in Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Rinde Eckert is renowned as a writer, composer, director, singer, actor and movement artist whose Opera/New Music Theatre productions are performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. His long history with PICA includes performances of The Idiot Variations (1996), Romeo Sierra Tango (1998), and And God Created Great Whales (2002). His many awards include two Critics Circles and two Isadora Duncan Awards in San Francisco, a Special Obie Award and two Drama Desk Award Nominations in New York; and he was most recently a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play Orpheus X. Eckert’s uniquely eclectic music is available on the Intuition label in Germany and through Songline/Tonefield Productions. His fourth CD, the critically acclaimed Sandhills Reunion (music by Jerry Granelli, text by Eckert), was released in 2005.

The commission and performance of this piece is supported in part by the Kristy Edmunds Fund for New Work.

www.rindeeckert.com

"Jack of all Stage Arts. Mr. Eckert is a singer, moving from tenor to countertenor to all manner of post-modernist vocal sound effects...an American loner-eccentric, with touches of Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett and Tom Waits." The New York Times