Christian Eitner
Christian Eitner (born March 5, 1966 in Braunschweig ) is a German composer , musician and music producer .
Life
Christian Eitner attended the Neue Oberschule in his hometown Braunschweig and took lessons on the accordion, guitar, bass and piano. After graduating from high school, he studied English at the TU Braunschweig , worked in various recording studios and dealt intensively with midi sequencing and sampling. After various band and studio projects, he developed the electronic band “Dancing Fantasy” together with Ingo Meyer in 1989, which led him to tour the USA several times.
In 1994 Eitner founded the Jazzkantine as a producer and bassist , which after seven albums and around 1000 concerts is still active today in various line-ups. Together with Matthias Lanzer (Rap Nation Records), Eitner runs the business of Monofon Musikproduktions GmbH with a recording studio, management and label.
Since 1999 Eitner has been a regular composer, arranger and musical director of incidental music a. a. at the Staatstheater Braunschweig , often in collaboration with the author and director Peter Schanz .
Since 2007 he has been the artistic director of “Pop meets Classic” in Braunschweig. In 2011, in a co-production by Monofon GmbH and Undercover GmbH, the winter theater in the mirror tent at the Martinikirche, Braunschweig, opens its doors for the first time. Since then Eitner has worked there as artistic director and, together with Peter Schanz, brings various pieces to the premier performance, including a. the nativity play "The Braunschweiger Weihnachtsgeschichte" (The Braunschweig Christmas Story) with continued success
Discography
CD
- 1990 "Midnight Boulevard" Dancing Fantasy (IC Digit)
- 1991 "California Grooves" Dancing Fantasy (IC Digit)
- 1992 "Moonlight Reflection" Dancing Fantasy (IC Digit)
- 1993 "Worldwide" (IC Digit)
- 1994 "Jazzkantine" Jazzkantine (BMG)
- 1995 "Heiss und Fettig" Jazzkantine (BMG)
- 1995 "Aleksey" Aleksey (RCA Local)
- 1997 "Loudspeaker" cappuccino (Mercury)
- 1998 "Secret Recipe" Jazzkantine (BMG)
- 1999 "Formulas of the World" Tachiles (BMG)
- 1999 "Tanzzkantine" Jazzkantine (BMG)
- 1999 "Dancing Fantasy" (Higher Octave / Virgin)
- 2000 "In Formation" Jazzkantine (BMG)
- 2002 "Food for the soul" (BMG)
- 2003 "Unlimited shelf life" Jazzkantine (BMG)
- 2004 "Best of Jazzkantine" (BMG-Miller)
- 2005 "Ölper Twelve Pöints" (monophone)
- 2008 "Hell's Kitchen" Jazzkantine (Sashimi Records)
- 2009 "Our harmony" (monophone)
- 2012 "Jazzkantine plays folk songs" Jazzkantine (Polydor)
- 2013 "Ultrahocherhitzt" Jazzkantine (Rap Nation Records)
- 2014 "Without Plug" Jazzkantine & NDR-Bigband (Rap Nation Records)
- 2016 "Old's Cool" Jazzkantine (Rap Nation Records)
DVD
- 2005 “10 years live” DVD Jazzkantine
Stage music
- 1999 Tanzzkantine (State Theater Braunschweig)
- 2001 Space (Braunschweig State Theater)
- 2003 Brown soft, brown soft! A home evening with the Jazzkantine (Staatstheater Braunschweig)
- 2004 One hundred years of hip hop. The anniversary tour with Puff Baba and Jennifer Lopetzki. (Hanover State Theater)
- 2005 Man Agnes! A morality. (State Theater Braunschweig)
- 2006 Ölper Twelve Pöints. The interactive request concert with the jazz canteen. (State Theater Braunschweig)
- 2007 Ölper 2. A song for Braunschweig. The second season. With the jazz canteen. (State Theater Braunschweig)
- 2009 summit diver. A comedy from the big world of small politics in verse. (State Theater Braunschweig)
- 2009 Our harmony. A musical training camp for the Braunschweig soul. With the jazz canteen. (State Theater Braunschweig)
- 2010 Our harmony (resumption)
- since 2011 The Braunschweig Christmas Story (Wintertheater Braunschweig)
- 2012 Ö3 - The Oil Perium Strikes Back (Braunschweig State Theater)
- 2014 Da Da Da - a musical navigation system through the 80s in Braunschweig (Staatstheater Braunschweig)
- 2015 Da Da Da (resumption)
Awards
- 1996 Echo Award (Jazz)
- 1997 Jazz Award from the Federal Association of the Phonographic Industry
- 2008 Jazz Award from the German Music Industry Association
- 2009 nomination for the Echo Award (Jazz)
- 2013 TFF-RUTH World Music Prize
- 2014 entry in the Golden Book of the city of Braunschweig
Web links
- Jazz canteen in the German music archive
- Internet presence of music production company Monofon
- http://www.wintertheater.de/
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eitner, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, musician and music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |