Thanks for stopping by howardeckdahl.com! Please feel free to explore my pages — there are pictures and descriptions of my professional work in the ‘Pictorial Professional Portfolio’ and videos of my conducting in the ‘Video Links’ section. Below you can see some programs I presented at the University of Notre Dame; Please let me know what you think! You can get in touch with me at [first.last]@gmail.com.
Another positive review for the Merton College Choir’s recording of Venables’ Requiem and the orchestrated Howells anthems:
“This inspired recording project – a synthesis of musical intersections and connections, repertoire new and old, arrangements and homages – has been so carefully conceived and knitted together that it’s a winner before you even hear a note. Once you do, however, it only gets better….The whole recording feels like an exercise in the play of musical light and shade, arrangements picking out new moments in silhouette, recessing others into shadow. Take Howells’s Like as the hart, for example: in Howard Eckdahl’s orchestration the text’s water-brooks swirl and eddy with new currents, a reflective pool beneath the blended choral voices.”
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/howells-anthems-for-choir-and-orchestra-venables-requiem
Uncommon Voices, a groundbreaking album of music by women composers of Eastern Europe recorded by Macedonian pianist Natasha Stojanovska, has been released on the Navona Label in collaboration with Parma Recordings, Kosmologia, and engineered by GRAMMY-winning Aphorism studios. I had the pleasure of working as a Recording Session Producer alongside the late Carmen-Helena Téllez. https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6440/
Howard Eckdahl 