He is the featured soloist / entertainer at the highly acclaimed and world famous chow house and imbibing station "The Mountainside Restaurant" in Allentown PA - a true piano bar & lounge.

Mr. Eckhart is a musician who was classically trained, musically educated, and an accomplished performer. He will create the atmosphere and ambience that you want to achieve at your next function. Whether it is; a dinner party for the elite, a wedding reception, a high-end restaurant's focal point or an entertainment venue complete with lights, stage and show, he truly is the consummate versatile performer.

A recipient of the Who's Who in Music Award, Mr. Eckhart has taught in a variety of styles and environments that include: analog, digital synthesis, midi, rock and blues piano methods, waveform layering, classical to contemporary vocal styles, Individual one-on-one lessons as well as group lessons on piano, keyboard and organ.

His performance history includes a vast array of experiences; rock bands, hotel dining room entertainment, soloist, chorister, clinician and various performance arts venues in a wide variety of musical settings. As an active clinician for high school students, Mr. Eckhart volunteers with pre-production events leading up to the final performance. He specializes in diction, enunciation, facial expression, vocal sound production, confidence building, body language, choreography, lighting, sound engineering and system placement as well as the technical aspects of a multi-media show. He has also performed throughout the region as "Jonny Vegas Live" and has included a portion of his demo to your 'upper right' on this page.

Charles Eckhart can play any song and turn it into a jazz, swing, classical or a contemporary style which is evident in the "track 1 Demo [to your upper right: Piano Montage]. His variations on music are a credit to his creative experiences and no two performances are alike. Not only does he perform with technical grace on piano but he also sings with a lush fluidity that can hearken back to the days of The Algonquin Room, Mel Torme and the lost art of cabaret.

Versatile to say the least, he has performed Velvetized Jazz Standards, impeccable Operatic Arias, brash Broadway Showtunes and has the vocal stamina to sing for two to three hours and perform on the piano for four to five hours.

Past Performances include:

Notre Dame Cathedral-FR Luxembourg Gardens-FR Palace of Versailles-FR Windsor Castle-UK Buckingham Palace-UK Canterbury Cathedral-UK Royal Theatre-UK St Mark's Cathedral-IT Olympic Stadium, Cortina,-IT Innsbruck-AU Interlaken and Lucerne SWZ Rothenberg-GRM St Patrick's Cathedral-NY National Cathedral- Wash.DC Smithsonian Institution-Wash.DC St Francis of Assisi Monastery-Wash. DC

As a pianist, he has held down the keys in the swankiest joints:

Penn-Wells Hotel, Wellsboro PA Best Western Grand Victorian Inn, Sayre PA Holiday Inn Conference Center, Fogelsville, PA Sheraton Hotel's Wanda's on the Park, Wilkes Barre PA Fiddler's Elbow, Lamington NJ **The Mountainside Restaurant & Lounge, Allentown PA

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His ability to connect with a crowd has lead the public to seek out this extroadinary performer time and again.

Please sit back and listen to his piano demo to the right. It covers many styles. It starts with a short bold Be-Bop intro then, Scott Joplin's Entertainer... just before a lush Etude by Chopin. It goes on from there. So sit back the piano demo lasts 13 minutes. It was recorded and pieced together on June 10, 2006. It was digitally recorded on a 6'1 Steinway in about an hour. The demo are some of the highlights from that session.

Mr. Eckhart also serves as the Artist in Residence at The Metropolitan Music Academy in Allentown PA and gives piano lessons and voice lessons in the Lehigh Valley. He also has a Full Service DJ Company throughout PA, NJ, NY and frequently performs throughout the region for all of the aforementioned events above.

Wedding Reception pianist, Wedding Rehearsal Dinner Entertainer, Wedding DJ, Wedding Dinner Entertainment, Cocktail Pianist, Piano and Vocal Performances, Opera Arias, Italian Art Songs, Broadway Musical hits, Vocal Lessons, Piano Lessons, Allentown, Easton, Macungie, Coopersburg, Schnecksville.

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