A. Royce Eckhardt

A. ROYCE ECKHARDT (b. 1937) has served as a director of music, organist, conductor, composer, arranger, hymnal editor, teacher, and hymnologise for over forty years. He as served Evangelical Covenant churches as minister of music and organist in Seattle, New Britain (CT), Winnetka, and Hinsdale, IL, and also the Winnetka Presbyterian Church, serving as director of music, organist and worship coordinator, as well as an ordained elder.

Mr. Eckhardt is a native of Scottsbluff, NE, and earned a Bachelor of Music degree (organ performance) at North Park College, Chicago, and a Master of Music degree in liturgical music at Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford. Following his graduation from college, Royce joined the music faculty at Seattle Pacific College, teaching organ, music theory and literature courses, and directing small choral ensembles. Royce also served as music director of the Covenant Ministers Chorus from 1985 to 2005, leading the Chorus on a concert tour to Sweden and Germany in 1990, and on a second concert tour in 2001 to Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Germany.

He was a member of the Covenant Hymnal Commission that produced The Covenant Hymnal, published in 1973. In 1990 he was appointed to the Special Hymnal Commission that compiled and published The Covenant Hymnal: A Worshipbook (1996), serving as music editor for this project. His many hymn arrangements, harmonizations, and tunes appear in eight American hymnals.

Since his retirement in 2006, Royce has been in demand as a guest organist in the greater Chicago area.

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