David Lee Echelard
countertenor | composer | conductor | multi-instrumentalist | hurdy gurdy | New Music | Early Music
David Lee Echelard, a singer of Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and contemporary music, primarily performs as a countertenor in both New and Early Music venues. He has premiered several New Music operas and created original compositions in New York City, Boston, Hamburg Germany, Austin (TX), Minneapolis and Winona (MN). After attending Sara Lawrence College to complete a Masters of Fine Arts in Early Music, Echelard performed and recorded with Pomerium Musices, The Taverner Consort, as well as the Baltimore Consort in New York City. He has also performed at the Bang on a Can Marathon in Hamburg, the Holland Early Music Festival and in London with various Medieval dramas and Gregorian Chant groups. Currently, Echelard serves as the artistic director of the “Blue Heron Consort” (an Early Music ensemble), “Ensemble Limousin” or “Hurly Burly” (a French Traditional Music ensemble), and the “Hot Fish Consort" (a New Music ensemble). Echelard currently lives in Winona, Minnesota USA, where he spends the majority of his time at his boathouse on the Mississippi River, composing, playing the hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, button-box and makes music daily.