Rainer Seegers (born 6 August 1952 in Dessau) is a German percussionist,[1] former principal timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, tutor of the European Union Youth Orchestra and guest professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".
Seegers first musical influence was his grandfather, who was a trumpetist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig.
Soon after he got his first principal position as timpanist of the Braunschweig Staatstheater, he left this position to join the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra.
In 1982, Seegers joined the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra and was their principal timpanist until the summer of 2019.
[4] Rainer Seegers served as faculty member of the Musikhochschule Hannover, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Orchestra Academy and as a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin.