Christoph Reuter (pianist)

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Christoph Reuter, Leipzig 2018

Christoph Reuter (* 1977 in Dessau ) is a German jazz pianist , composer and music teacher .

Life

Christoph Reuter studied jazz piano and music education at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University in Leipzig . He passed his concert exam with Richie Beirach . Since 2007 he has premiered three piano concertos. The commissioned works Die Himmelsscheibe and Teufelsspiegel were created for the impulse festival for new music in Saxony-Anhalt . In 2010 he and the singer Cristin Claas wrote the music for the children's opera Oskar and the Groschenbande (text: Andreas Hillger), which premiered at the Kurt Weill Festival in March 2012 in the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau under the direction of Silke Wallstein. Another premiere took place on February 25, 2013 in Hamburg under the direction of Claudia Cerachowitz. In the same year the musical Sarg was never never made .

Christoph Reuter composes for orchestras, for example for the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, the Staatskapelle Halle , the Babelsberg film orchestra , choirs, bands and writes music for drama. His concert activities as a pianist have taken him at home and abroad. He gives solo concerts, plays in Cristin Claas' trio and in the electro jazz band ye: solar . With his diverse band projects, he has released numerous albums. Since 2006 he has been a regular guest with the cabaret artist Eckart von Hirschhausen .

In 2017 he received the Thuringian Cabaret Prize of the city of Meiningen for his program Alle sind musisch (except for some) .

Web links

Commons : Christoph Reuter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Impulse Festival for New Music in Saxony-Anhalt
  2. ↑ The Oskar Project ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oskars-projekt.de
  3. ↑ Never never coffin
  4. ↑ Meininger Kleinkunsttage, award winner
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz pianist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau