Marcia Eckert
Marcia Eckert
Marcia Eckert is active as piano soloist and collaborative artist and has appeared in the Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as at Merkin, Alice Tully, and Weill concert halls, and London’s Leighton House. She has been referred to as “a pianist of impressive skill and sensitivity, the sort of keyboard collaborator that every instrumentalist dreams of” (Scott Cantrell, Albany Times-Union). She has partnered with cellist Timothy Merton of Sarasa, violinist Ruth Ehrlich, sopranos Lucy Shelton, Cori Ellison, Susan Gonzalez, Helen Gabrielsen and Tiffany DuMouchelle, and tenor Daniel Molkentin and has performed with Aurelia Piano Quartet, Trio la Bella, and Trio della Luna. Ms. Eckert currently performs with the Eckert/Gilwood Piano Duo (with Deborah Gilwood), and with soprano Sara Paar.
She has travelled throughout the United States presenting lecture-recitals on piano music by women composers and on the music of Charles Ives. Recordings include music by Debra Kaye on the CDs And So It Begins and Ikarus Among the Stars; Short Songs to the Poetry of William Blake by Nailah Nombeko, with soprano Sara Paar; Tailleferre – Musique de Chambre with violinist Ruth Ehrlich; Songs by Women with soprano Susan Gonzalez; and 20th Century Music for Recorder and Piano with Anita Randolfi.
Ms. Eckert has been the producer of the Amnesty International Group 11 annual benefit concerts since 2016 and is the founder and director of Pianophoria!, a summer adult piano intensive that began in 2004. While teaching at Hunter College, she was a 1998 recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been on the faculty of Mannes Prep since 1983 and maintains a large private studio in Manhattan.
A native of Indiana, Ms. Eckert holds degrees in Piano Performance from Indiana University School of Music and State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has been a fellow at Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood and at the Yale Summer Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, CT. Teachers have included Jorge Bolet, Gilbert Kalish, Claude Frank, William Masselos, Seymour Bernstein, and Lucy Greene.
She has travelled throughout the United States presenting lecture-recitals on piano music by women composers and on the music of Charles Ives. Recordings include music by Debra Kaye on the CDs And So It Begins and Ikarus Among the Stars; Short Songs to the Poetry of William Blake by Nailah Nombeko, with soprano Sara Paar; Tailleferre - Musique de Chambre with violinist Ruth Ehrlich; Songs by Women with soprano Susan Gonzalez; and 20th Century Music for Recorder and Piano with Anita Randolfi.
Ms. Eckert has been the producer of the Amnesty International Group 11 annual benefit concerts since 2016 and is the founder and director of Pianophoria!, a summer adult piano intensive that began in 2004. While teaching at Hunter College, she was a 1998 recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been on the faculty of Mannes Prep since 1983 and maintains a large private studio in Manhattan.
A native of Indiana, Ms. Eckert holds degrees in Piano Performance from Indiana University School of Music and State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has been a fellow at Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood and at the Yale Summer Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, CT. Teachers have included Jorge Bolet, Gilbert Kalish, Claude Frank, William Masselos, Seymour Bernstein, and Lucy Greene.