Christian Lillinger

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Christian Lillinger 2012 in the Loft (Cologne)

Christian Lillinger (born April 21, 1984 in Lübben ) is a German drummer , composer and percussionist of the modern creative style and new improvisation music .

Live and act

Christian Lillinger is the older brother of the composer, pianist and conductor Robert Lillinger and grew up in the village of Kuschkow . Lillinger studied from 2000 to 2004 at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden with Günter Sommer . Between 2001 and 2003 he was a member of the Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra .

Lillinger plays in the trio Gropper | Graupe | Lillinger , known until 2015 under the name Hyperactive Kid , with saxophonist Philipp Gropper and guitarist Ronny Graupe , where he largely confines himself to the conventional drum set. In 2008 he put together his first own band, Christian Lillingers Grund , whose first two albums were released in late 2009 and 2013 on Clean Feed Records . Lillinger also works as a sideman with well-known musicians such as Rolf Kühn , Miroslav Vitouš , Beat Furrer , Rudi Mahall , John Schröder , Barre Phillips , Wadada Leo Smith , Frank Gratkowski , Simon Nabatov , Tobias Delius , Axel Dörner , Thomas Lehn , Michael Wollny , Louis Sclavis , Bruno Chevillon , David Liebman , Gebhard Ullmann , Médéric Collignon , Alexander von Schlippenbach , Urs Leimgruber , Theo Jörgensmann , Zeitkratzer , John Edwards , Greg Cohen , William Parker , Joe Lovano , Tony Malaby . Since 2004 he has also been working in the EUPHORIUM_freakestra , the project ensemble around Oliver Schwerdt , with whom he has emerged in particular in the trio and quintet with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky . The joint recording of Petrowsky's “late work” with the albums Tumult! , Riot! , Rabatz! received a lot of attention. Since 2009 Lillinger has also been working in the Grünen Piano Trio with Achim Kaufmann and Robert Landfermann , which has so far produced two albums and, among other things, played in the 2015 Albert Mangelsdorff Prize awarded to Kaufmann at the Berlin Jazz Festival . Since 2010 Lillinger has also been working in the trio Dell Lillinger Westergaard , which also performed with John Tchicai .

In 2011 he founded the trio Starlight with Petter Eldh and Wanja Slavin , which released its debut CD in 2013 on the Swiss label Unit Records . With Eldh and Slavin he also founded the quartet Amok Amor with the American trumpeter Peter Evans , which released his first album of the same name in 2015. He also plays in a trio with Eldh and the pianist Kaja Draksler and in the qÖÖlp quartet with Ronny Graupe, Valentin and Théo Ceccaldi .

Christian Lillinger, Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2018

Lillinger is also a member of the following groups: Rolf Kühn Unit, Henrik Walsdorff Trio, Die Enricherung , Pascal Niggenkemper Vision 7, Ronny Graupes Spoom , Schmittquote Meier, Marc Schmolling Trio, Wanja Slavin Quintett, Carl Ludwig Hübschs Drift, Hübsch Acht, Uwe Steinmetz Stream Ensemble, The Upper Class , Ember , Gerhard Gschlößl's group of four, Gerhard Gschlößl's G9, KUU! and also plays with Joachim Kühn in a trio.

From 2012 to 2013 Lillinger was a member of the board of the Union of German Jazz Musicians . At the end of 2017 he founded the label PLAIST-Music, which is dedicated to contemporary avant-garde music that spans genres.

Prizes and awards

Lillinger is the winner of the "Leipzig Improvisation Competition" in 2001. From August 2016 to March 2017 he is a scholarship holder of the Bartels Foundation in Basel. Lillinger is the winner of the SWR Jazz Prize 2017. The album Open Form for Society was awarded in the 3rd quarter of 2019 and placed on the list of the best of the German Record Critics' Prize : “Christian Lillinger is pushing jazz beyond its supposed limits like no other in this country at the moment ".

Christian Lillinger at the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2010)

Discographic notes

  • Sonne ( WhyPlayJazz , 2005) with Philipp Gropper , Johannes Fink , Carsten Daerr
  • Hyperactive Kid (Shoebill Music, 2006) with Ronny Graupe , Philipp Gropper
  • Group of four Gschlößl I Take Everything (Jazzwerkstatt Berlin, 2006) with Rudi Mahall , Gerhard Gschlößl , Johannes Fink
  • Schmittquote Meier REAL (2007) with Matthias Schriefl , Gerhard Gschlößl, Robert Landfermann
  • Robert Landfermann Not without Robert Vol. 1 ( JazzHausMusik , 2008) with Rudi Mahall , Simon Nabatov
  • Close Up (2009, Jazzwerkstatt) with Rolf Kühn, Ronny Graupe , Matthias Schriefl, Johannes Fink
  • Christian Lillinger's Grund First Reason ( Clean Feed , 2009) with Tobias Delius, Wanja Slavin, Robert Landfermann, Jonas Westergaard and Joachim Kühn (on three pieces)
  • Live in Berlin Vol. 1 (Wizmar Records, 2010) with Marc Schmolling and Jonas Westergaard
  • Christian Lillinger's Grund Second Reason (Clean Feed, 2012) with Achim Kaufmann, Christopher Dell , Pierre Borel , Tobias Delius , Jonas Westergaard , Robert Landfermann
  • Dell / Lillinger / Westergaard Grammar (2013)
  • Dirn Bridge (Euphorium Records, 2014) with Axel Dörner and Elan Pauer
  • Gropper / Graupe / Lillinger Riot (WhyPlayJazz, 2016) with Ronny Graupe, Philipp Gropper
  • Christian Lillingers Grund COR (PLAIST, 2018) with Pierre Borel, Tobias Delius, Achim Kaufmann, Christopher Dell, Jonas Westergaard, Robert Landfermann
  • Open Form for Society (PLAIST, 2019)

Web links

Commons : Christian Lillinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Müller: Drummer Christian Lillinger. The energy machine. tagesspiegel.de, December 6, 2016
  2. ^ Hyperactive Kid
  3. ↑ Ute Van der Sanden: A concert evening of no illusions that have become loud In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , January 22, 2009.
  4. ↑ Best list 1st quarter 2018. Prize of the German Record Critics , accessed on December 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Starlight. In: Jazzcity. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Michael Rüsenberg meeting performance JazzFest Berlin 2017 ( Memento of 12 November 2017 in the Internet Archive ) jazzcity.de
  7. ↑ Four masters in the studio in the Budapest Jazz newspaper
  8. ↑ To the Kleiner Markgräflerhof :: Artists. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Drummer Christian Lillinger receives SWR Jazz Prize 2017 | Music | SWR2 . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on February 15, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Bert Noglik : Best List 3-2019. August 14, 2019, accessed August 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lillinger, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebben