Felicitas Eickelberg
Musician
"Water Games" – If Spring
Dear fans, friends, and colleagues,
this Christmas ist going to be different than usual. This time we stay in an intimate circle and close to ourselves.
Maybe it will be a good experience. Nevertheless, we ask you to do something for the musicians and artists who are currently unable to work: click into livestreams, donate, go to church services. The event industry is down. It is a catastrophe, even though we realize it has to be.
Fortunately, I am doing ok because I also work as a church musician and piano teacher. But right now I am thinking of all the colleagues who have to apply for Hartz IV and all musicians in the world who cannot even do that.
Let us hope that it will be over soon. Stay healthy and save and spend nice hours with all the beautiful music in the world: mine and that of my colleagues. I also invite you to all Advent and Christmas services in which I participate. A list is further down the page.
Have a beautiful Christmas season - especially this year.
Yours, Felicitas
Concerts & Music
Church Music / Playing the Organ for Church Services
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Sun, Dec 6th 2020; 10:00 a.m.
Service at the Queen-Luise-Memorial-Church
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Sun, Dec 13th 2020; 10:00 a.m.
Service at the Genezareth-Church
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Sun, Dec 20th 2020; 10:00 a.m.
Service at the Martin Luther Church Berlin on piano and organ with songs sung by soprano Rita Anton.
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Thu, Dec 24th 2020; Christmas Eve
11:00 a.m. service at the Martin Luther Church Berlin
3:30 p.m. nativity play at the 12-Apostle-Church
9:00 p.m. youth service at the Martin Luther Church Berlin with Kalle Lange -
Thu, Dec 31st 2020; 6:00 p.m.
New-Years-Service at the Martin Luther Church Berlin
I perform regularly at the organ during the services at various churches in Berlin.
A selection of my concerts, performances and musical accompaniment of the last few years:
2020
Piano Concerts:
- September: open house afternoon at the Leo Kestenberg music school, improvisations in the with an improv ensemble
- September: Felicitas Eickelberg & Friends. Concert together with Nico Lohmann (saxophone & flute) and Agustin Strizzi (drums) at the Kunstfabrik Schlot. We played free improvisations on a tonal, atonal, and modal basis with free forms and rhythms – wild and bizarre, romantic and dreamy, individual and intellectual – and always very surprising.
Many thanks to my fellow musicians, John and the wonderful audience! It was a beautiful evening.
Photos: David Beecroft
- June: Online concert at the Greve Studio: "One person, one instrument, one room"
Many thanks to the team of the Greve Studio who made this evening possible. And a big thank you to everyone who watched the live stream. Your cheering reactions in the chat inspired me and warmed my heart. It was wonderful! Many thanks to everyone who made a donation. It helps to keep such evenings alive.
Broadcast live. Recorded for later listening. Lean back and enjoy: Watch the concert on YouTube
- January: 3rd performance of the song evening “whats up? A musical travel blog with duets from all over the world ”with the sopranos Rita Anton and Sibylle Fischer. Many thanks to the fantastic audience who made this evening so magical!
Church Music / Playing the Organ for Church Services:
- July: Conducting the summer singing of the Berlin Domkantorei twice. You can watch private recordings on YouTube: Der Mond ist aufgegangen | Amazing Grace | Lobe den Herren - Großer Gott wir loben dich | Abend ward, bald kommt die Nacht
The rbb reported on the first choir meetings after the corona lockdown. For the first singing in the rbb Inforadio and for the second summer singing in the rbb Abendschau (evening show). - Digital Services, e.g. at Spirit & Soul and 3 months for the Gottesdienst zeitgleich by the Martin Luther Church
- services at the Martin Luther Church Berlin, Queen-Luise-Memorial-Church, Emmaus-Kirche Kreuzberg, Nikodemus-Church Neukölln, Dorfkirche Lankwitz, Kapelle der Versöhnung, Nathanael-Church, Genezareth-Church and 12-Apostle-Church
2019
- 2 performances of the song evening "whats up? Anti-heroines on the trip: a musical travel blog with duets from all over the world" with the sopranos Rita Anton und Sibylle Fischer; Works by u. a. Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell, Lully, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohnm and Barber.
- Literary song recital “Lebenslieder” (Songs of Life); an evening with singing, poems, and improvisation on the piano. Piano: Felicitas Eickelberg; Vocals: Manon Scharstein; Concept & direction: Claudia Graue
- August-December substitute direction of the con-brio choir Fürstenwalde; e.g. Christmas concerts
- Short appearance with Julia Kadel as part of the Young Euro Classics for the lecture "Why jazz and classical music meet so rarely" by PD Dr. Daniela collector
- CD release concert with the CD "If Spring"
- On the organ: musical accompaniment for various services, e.g. B. in the Queen Luise Memorial Church, the Genezareth Church Neukölln, the Twelve Apostles Church, the Rogate Monastery St. Michael, the Johannesstift Spandau, the Nicodemus Church Neukölln, the Markus Church in Steglitz and in the Martin Luther Church Berlin
- Women's services of the Ecumenical Women's Center Evas Arche
- Church service for the opening of the 27th Lesbian and Gay Festival
2018
- Conducting various concerts
- Organ anniversary in the Martin Luther Church Berlin-Neukölln
- Musical accompaniment for the inauguration of new information boards in the north of Schöneberg as part of the project »Historic sites with charm«
- Concert series “Classics” by the Leo Kestenberg Music School - works by Claude Debussy and Dmitri Shostakovich
- New Year's concert of the Fürstenwalde Chamber Orchestra in the Fürstenwalde Cathedral
2017
- Conducting various concerts
- Springtime concert in the Martin Luther Church as part of "48 hours in Neukölln"
- Concert series “Classics” by the Leo Kestenberg Music School - works by Beethoven and Brahms with Friederike Bauer-Eschen (cello) and Felicitas Eickelberg (piano)
- Schöneberg city culture (Schöneberger Stadtkultur)
2016
- Old St. Matthäus Kirchhof Berlin - Musical accompaniment of the event "Women in the mourning culture" as part of the 160th anniversary of the church yard
- Silent film concerts in the Genezareth Church Berlin - i.a. to Charlie Chaplin movies
2015
- Refo Moabit, several silent film accompaniments; e.g. accompaniment to the silent film “Broken Blossoms” by D.W. Griffith (1919) and "Under the Lantern" by Gerd Lamprecht (1928)
- Improvisation on the Kleuker organ
Concert Invitations
2020 Felicitas & Friends im Schlot, 06.09.2020
2020 "whats up" Liederabend
2019 con-brio Weihnachtskonzert
2019 Liederabend "whats up"
Einladung zum literarischen Liederabend "Lebenslieder"
2019 CD-Releasekonzert
2015 Stummfilmbegleitung
2018 Adventsingen con-brio-Chor
2018 Konzertreihe Klassik
2018 Sommerkonzert
2018 con-brio-Chor
2018 Frühlingskonzert
2018 Konzertreihe Klassik
2018 Neujahrskonzert
2017 Orgelkonzert
2017 Neujahrskonzert
2016 Stummfilmbegleitung
2016 48 Stunden Neukölln
2015 Stummfilmbegleitung
Church Music
2020 Sommersingen der Berliner Domkantorei
2020 Charly und die Orgel
2019 Evangelische FrauenVersammlung
2019 Kinderkirche Sommersegen
2019 Abendbegleitung Ökumenischer Frauengottesdienst
2018 Musikalische Vesper
2018 Orgelführung
2017 Orgelkonzert
2017 Neujahrskonzert
Service Announcements
2020 Einladung zum Adventsgottesdienst
2020 September Gottesdienste 12-Apostel-Kirche
Einladung zum Abendsegen am Ostersonntag.
Einladung zum Familiengottesdienst.
2019 Gottesdienst zu Estomihi
2018 Musikalische Vesper
My Music
Organ Improvisations Vol. II
My second organ CD is in progress, recorded on the Schuke organ in the 12 Apostle Church. You can look forward to a cross-section of the church year, as well as highlights such as Gershwin's Summertime, trout variations, some classics of film music in a medley and a new improvisation of children's songs.
Many thanks to the team for making this possible, especially to the church musician Christoph Hagemann, but also to Pastor Burkhard Bornemann, to the church staff and of course to my sound engineer Volker Greve.
Winter
Currently my new CD "Winter" is in preparation. Stay tuned!
If Spring
Title:
Part one: Evening
1. Greensleeves Variations
2. Water Games
3. Deep
4. Into the Wild
5. Fountain
6. Big D
Part Two: Morning
7. If Spring
8. Blissful
9. Clusters
10. Stalactites
11. In My Head
12. In Tierces
13. Pulsations
"If Spring" tells of:
- What happens if spring returns to a dead heart;
- What could have happened if spring had come to a love that was unhappy;
- What could happen if spring came again this year and every year; in the heart AND in nature; and in life.
All these "Ifs" and the whole spring; in the heart and in nature, shall be expressed in this music.
Recording of: Felicitas Eickelberg at Steinway D Piano
Location: Nikodemus Church Berlin, Feb 2017
Released: Dec 2018
Sound editor: Stephanz Kunz
Cover-Illustration: Manon Scharstein
Organ Improvisations
Organ improvisation
recording:Felicitas Eickelberg at the Schuke organ in the 12-apostle church Berlin-Schöneberg
Sound editor: Stephan Kunz
Released: 2015
White Wednesday
Piano Solo Improvisation
Recording: Felicitas Eickelberg at Steinway B
Sound editor: Stephan Kunz
CD covers: Manon Scharstein
Released: 2010
So Sincere
Solo Piano Pieces
Composer: Brian Agro
Piano: Felicitas Eickelberg
Released: 2007
Red Monday
Piano Improvisation
Sound editor: Stephen Sippel
Released: 2001
Sunday, silver plated
Piano Improvisation
recording: Marc Haussmann
Released: 2000
Blue Saturday
Piano Improvisation
Sound editor: Marc Haussmann
Released: 1999
Music is the language of passion
Richard Wagner
Thanks
A big thank you to Julia Kadel (Production Assistance), Karl-Erik Enkelman (Digitisation and Distribution of sound samples), Manon Scharstein (Graphics for the CDs), the Sound Masters Stephan Kunz, Stefan Sippel, and Marc Haussmann, the Nikodemus congregation for the reception site, and 12 Apostle Church for organ recordings as well as Klaus Dobler (photos in the Nikodemus Church), Claudia Schneider (website), and Ingo Markert (background graphic).
'Fux, die hast du ganz gestohlen' – Organ Improvisations
Kontakt zu Felicitas Eickelberg
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E-Mail: music@felicitaseickelberg.com