Hartwig Eichberg – Past Concerts

Hartwig Eichberg, pianist and conductor, grew up in Hamburg, Germany, where he was a prize winner in the Steinway Piano Competition. He earned his Ph.D. degree in musicology with a dissertation on the piano works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Subsequently he worked as conductor and coach at several German opera houses and internationally. He moved to Seattle in 1992. He has served as music director at St. Dunstan's Episcopal church from 1994-2000, as well as at several other churches in Seattle. He performed as pianist, accompanying singers and instrumentalists in concert, in addition to teaching. For 20 years he was the director of the Jubilee Singers, a chorus devoted to the tradition of a capella singing of the African-American spirituals. Now, mostly retired, he occasionally returns to the stage to share his readings of great piano works, especially after the pandemic enabled him to add some of the most profound ones to his repertoire.