Eckhard Lenzing was born in 1963 in Waren/Müritz. In 1979, he began his instrumental studies in bassoon at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, where he studied orchestral performance with Herbert Heilmann. After completing his studies, he was engaged in 1983 as a bassoonist with the Philharmonic Orchestra (today the Norddeutsche Philharmonie) of the Volkstheater Rostock. In 1991, he became a member of Ottetto Amsterdam, an ensemble that won multiple prizes at various competitions. 

In 1992, he began additional studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, specializing in Baroque bassoon with Claude Wassmer. Since that time, Eckhard Lenzing has worked intensively with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin as well as with various other orchestras, including Les Arts Florissants and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. He has been a member of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin since 1996. 

From 1997 to 2010, he taught Baroque bassoon at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, and from 2005 to 2011 at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen. 

With the ensemble Amphion, of which Eckhard Lenzing has been a permanent member since 1999, he was awarded first prize at the Van Wassenaer Competition in The Hague. With this ensemble, he recorded numerous CDs featuring works by Mozart, Beethoven, Krommer, Triebensee, and others. 

Since 2006, he has increasingly devoted himself to compositions for children and young people, which he realizes through his teaching at the music schools in Weil am Rhein and Lörrach.