Founded by Neil Leiter and Margaret Hermant, Brussels-based Echo Collective have forged in only a few years an enviable reputation in the post-classical world: sought out for their instrumental and arranging expertise by icons such as A Winged Victory For The Sullen and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, or lending their interpretative intuition to genres as diverse as alt.rock, synth-pop and black metalm Echo Collective are equally inspired creators, using their past accomplishments as a springboard to a new, illuminating vision.
The 2021/22 season sees Echo Collective performing at Eindhoven Muziekgebouw, Tongeren, Winter Tales festival, Den Haag Paard, ‘Ledereen Klassiek’ Brugge and Cultuurcentrum Hasselt. Recent performance highlights include BOZAR, MDF Festival Szczecin, Resonanzen Festival, Barbican London, Pardiso Amsterdam, Funkhaus Berlin and Conde Duque Madrid.In June 2021, at De Singel in Antwerp, Echo Collective performed the World premiere of their last released Album The See Within.
Echo Collective was conceived when Margaret Hermant and Neil Leiter collaborated with Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran’s A Winged Victory For The Sullen. The American-born Leiter was introduced to Wiltzie by their mutual friend, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and musician Caroline Shaw. Since this inception, Leiter, and Belgian violinist and harpist Hermant, has gone on to perform as Echo Collective in venues such as Royal Albert Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and L’Auditori Barcelona, as well as festivals such as Latitude, Big Ears, ATP, La Route du Rock, Eurosonic, Reeperbahn and Primavera.
