Bert Seager has been a leading figure on the Boston jazz scene since 1981. A graduate of Haverford College, he earned a master's degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1984 and remains on the school's faculty. He is a three-time winner of an extended residency in music composition at MacDowell and has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for jazz.

A progressive pianist working in a post-modern and modal vein, Seager is also an accomplished composer of ensemble music. He has toured extensively in the United States and internationally, including twelve tours to Japan, and has performed and recorded with jazz figures including Joe Lovano, Tim Hagans, George Garzone, Bob Moses, Joe Hunt, Richie Barshay, John Lockwood, and Kazumi Ikenaga. His nineteen compact discs as leader have received unanimous critical acclaim from the New York Times, Keyboard Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and The Boston Globe, among other publications.

Seager's post-modern, modal approach to piano composition, cultivated across more than four decades at the center of the Boston jazz scene and his tenure at the New England Conservatory, established him as one of the most respected composer-pianists to emerge from that city's jazz education institutions.