Eckart Seeber
Composer/Keyboards

Award-winning composer Eckart Seeber studied at the State Conservatory of Music in Innsbruck, Austria; he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC) and a Masters of Music degree from the University of Victoria (Victoria, BC). He was born on October 31, 1963 in Innsbruck, Austria, and immigrated to Canada in 1981.

During the early years of his career he composed music for traditional instrumental and vocal ensembles and traditional keyboard instruments. During the 1980's he served as composer and music director for several theatre companies and wrote and produced music for video, multi-media and television. In the 1990's he began scoring for films.

Eckart has composed orchestral as well as MIDI-based scores and he has already created an impressive catalogue of motion picture and television soundtrack scores in addition to his catalogue of concert and popular music.

His scores have been performed in concert and on radio and television by well-know ensembles such as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Mexico City Symphony Orchestra, the Ukrainian State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Prague String Quartet, the Purcell String Quartet, the Orford String Quartet and many others.

He composed the world's first ballet for robotic machinery, commissioned by the EBCO Aerospace Centre in 1988. He has just recently completed recording the album Ecklectica, which has been released on the SONOVIDE label.

He is the recipient of several music awards, including the Westcoast Composers Award and the New Symphonic Music Award. He has several record releases to his credit with airplay and sales in Canada, the United States and Western Europe.

For an interview with Eckart Seeber, please check out An Interview with Eckart Seeber at FilmScore Monthly web site.

For more information, credits and media reviews please check out Eckart's website at www.seebermusic.com. Also www.listen-to-cds.com contains a fair amount of information and links. Also check out ENT NewsTime, the on-line entertainment magazine, for current news on this artist and useful links.