Andreas Hecker

Andreas Hecker was born into a musically talented family: six of eight siblings became professional musicians, including the renowned cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker. Ever since earliest childhood, chamber music was part of their daily lives. Thus, apart from early music, Andreas Hecker continues to cultivate a true passion for chamber music, performing on a regular basis with members of the Dresden Staatskapelle and Dresden Philharmonie, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and with outstanding soloists such as Pauline Sachse.
Andreas Hecker received his first musical training from Dagmar Mewes at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau. He went on to study piano and music pedagogy at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden with Prof. Gunnar Nauck, harpsichord with Prof. Ludger Rémy, and chamber music with Prof. Peter Bruns. He concluded his studies with a post-graduate Concert Exam in piano under the tutelage of Peter Rösel. Hecker refined his craft by actively participating in masterclasses taught by outstanding musicians such as Amadeus Webersinke, Daniel Hope, Jacques Rouvier, Sebastian Knauer, and Andrew Ball. Andreas Hecker has won prizes at several national and international competitions, including the International Bach Competition in Würzburg (2006), the International Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria (2011), and the Gebrüder-Graun-Prize in Bad Liebenwerda (2007).
Several international music events have called on the services of Andreas Hecker as official piano accompanist: for instance, the Markneukirchen International Musical Instrument Competition, the Competition of the German Collection of Musical Instruments in Hamburg, the International Music Academy Masterclasses in Meissen, the Saxon Electorate Masterclasses in Bad Elster, and since 2015 the Giuseppe Sinopoli Academy of the Dresden Staatskapelle. Since 2008, Andreas Hecker has worked as piano and harpsichord accompanist at his alma mater, the Dresden University of Music, where he was named professor in 2017.