Michael Eberth

After lessons with Karl Maureen and Hedwig Bilgram, Michael Eberth studied with Jean-Claude Zehnder (harpsichord and organ) and Jean Goverts (fortepiano) at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. 1984 »Diploma for Early Music« in harpsichord, 1985 in organ. Further studies with Jos van Immerseel, Kenneth Gilbert, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Harald Vogel, Michael Radulescu, Johann Sonnleitner and Gustav Leonhardt. From 1988 to 2008, he taught harpsichord, chamber music and basso continuo at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. Concert activity with various soloists and ensembles (Robert Crowe, Joel Frederiksen and Ensemble Phoenix-Munich, Salzburger Hofmusik, Berliner Lauttencompagney, Valer Sabadus, The Bach Ensemble New York).
Concerts in Germany, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, France, Switzerland, South Korea, South Africa, Vietnam and the USA, as well as numerous radio and television productions. From 2004 to 2011, he was privatdozent for harpsichord at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
Since 2008, Michael Eberth has taught harpsichord, clavichord, basso continuo, chamber music and notation studies as an honorary professor at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, where he headed the Institute for Historical Performance Practice from 2016 to 2021. He is chairman of the Forum Alte Musik Augsburg e.V.