Christian Elsässer

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Christian Elsaesser in the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich, 2010)

Christian Elsässer (born July 23, 1983 in Munich ) is a German jazz pianist , composer and conductor .

Live and act

From 1991 onwards, Elsässer received piano lessons from Peter Kütt, and later also private lessons in music theory and composition. From 1999 to 2004 he was a young student at the Richard Strauss Conservatory with Leonid Chizhik , where he studied jazz piano with Chizhik and classical piano with Michael Leslie from 2004 to 2006 . Up until 2008, he completed postgraduate studies in classical composition with Wilfried Hiller at the Munich Conservatory. From 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the Bavarian State Youth Jazz Orchestra; his album Together also includes compositions by Christian Elsässer. He was also a member of the Harald Rüschenbaum Jazz Orchestra (album 23 ).

In 1999 he founded his own trio, which produced several CDs and also appeared at the Rheingau Music Festival and the Ruhr Piano Festival and had several radio broadcasts from Munich. In March 2002 he made his concert debut as a solo pianist in the Rubinstein Hall of the Steinway House in Munich. He works regularly with renowned orchestras such as the Metropole Orkest , the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, the German radio big bands (e.g. for the album Rise & Arrive with the hr big band , for Flying in Circles with the NDR big band ) and the Munich Radio Orchestra .

He wrote orchestral and big band arrangements for international soloists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater , Kurt Elling , Mike Stern , Mike Manieri and others. v. a.

In 2018 Kurt Elling released Christian Elsässer's arrangement of the Paul Simon song An American Tune on his album The Questions (with Branford Marsalis and Jeff Tain Watts ).

He also went on a European tour with Pee Wee Ellis in 2007 and also played with musicians such as Klaus Doldinger (quartet and Passport ), with Adam Nussbaum , John Abercrombie , Alphonse Mouzon , Franco Ambrosetti , Johannes Enders , Bobby Shew , Don Menza , Claus Reichstaller and Johannes Faber . He also accompanied Jenny Evans , Gerry Hayes and Veronika Zunhammer . He also composed for the film ( Mena (2008). Die Unbedingten (2009), Von Haus zu Haus (2009)) and television ( Marienhof (ARD, 2005–2008), Unser wilde Meute (ZDF, 2007), Trixi der Film (Pro7, 2008), 37 degrees (ZDF, 2008)).

From autumn 2008 Elsässer worked as a lecturer at the University of Music and Theater in Munich ; In 2017 he was appointed to a professorship for jazz composition and jazz piano.

Prizes and awards

Elsässer was awarded the Dieter Ulrich Music Prize in 2004. In 2005 he was the winner of the Gasteig competition . For his composition Above All he received first prize at the big band composition competition of the Hessischer Rundfunk 2010, a production with the hr big band ; In 2011 he won first prize at the NDR Big Band Arrangement Competition with an up-tempo version of the standard Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and his composition Woodzling , which he presented with the NDR Big Band . The culture department of the Münchner Abendzeitung awarded him their star of the year in 2010 . In 2012 he received an ECHO Jazz for his album Seemingly . His Christian Elsässer Jazz Orchestra was awarded the Bavarian Art Prize in 2016.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christian Elsässer takes over professorship for jazz composition and jazz piano at the Munich University of Music and Theater (nmz)
  2. ↑ NDR: Prize winners concert of the NDR Big Band. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Alsatian, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich