Marcia Eckert is a New York-based pianist, teacher and recording artist.

She is active as piano soloist and collaborative artist and has appeared at the Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as at Merkin, Alice Tully, and Weill concert halls, and London's Leighton house. She has travelled throughout the United States playing chamber music and presenting lecture-recitals on piano music by women composers and on the music of Charles Ives. Past groups include Trio la Bella, Aurelia Piano Quartet, Dulcinea Piano Trio and Trio della Luna. She is a performer member of New York Composers Circle and has recorded chamber works by Debra Kaye. Ms. Eckert has partnered cellist Timothy Merton of Sarasa, sopranos Cori Ellison, Susan Gonzalez, Helen Gabrielsen, Tiffany DuMouchelle and Sara Paar, and tenor Daniel Molkentin.

As the Eckert-Gilwood Duo, Ms. Eckert and pianist Deborah Gilwood have presented duo-piano programs at Mannes The New School for Music in New York City, Queens College, New York University and Northampton Community Music School. Their children's program, entitled Piano Magic: Beauties, Beasts, Bells and More... has been presented at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY, as well as at Mannes.

As a member of the Ehrlich/Eckert Duo, Ms. Eckert made a special project of presenting music for violin and piano by women composers with English violinist Ruth Ehrlich. The duo's recording of the music of Germaine Tailleferre was released on the Cambria label in March, 1995.

Ms. Eckert recorded Songs by Women with soprano Susan Gonzalez for Leonarda Records, and 20th Century Music for Recorder and Piano with Anita Randolfi.

She has given numerous premieres, including works by Eleanor Cory, Ursula Mamlok, Ruth Schoenthal, Roger Zahab, Kevin McCarter and Jacob Goodman.

Ms. Eckert has served on the keyboard, chamber music and theory faculty of Hunter College, where she was a 1998 recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been teaching piano and chamber music in the Preparatory Division of Mannes The New School for Music since 1983. Her piano students have won numerous awards and scholarships to music schools, such as Oberlin, Juilliard, Mannes, Ithaca, Thornton and Bard Conservatory.

She is the founder and director of Pianophoria!, begun in 2004. She maintains a private piano studio in Manhattan and is a member of the Leschetizky Association, Piano Teachers Congress and the Associated Music Teachers League.

A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Ms. Eckert holds degrees in Piano Performance from Indiana University School of Music and SUNY at Stony Brook. Teachers have included Jorge Bolet, Gilbert Kalish, Claude Frank, William Masselos, Seymour Bernstein, Luis Batlle, and Lucy Greene. She has participated as a fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood and the Yale School of Music Summer Chamber Music Festival and also studied at the Aspen and Interlochen Music Festivals.