Max Eisingers

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Music from the Diaspora – Klezmer, Fritz Kreisler, and George Gershwin

 

Violin: Max Eisinger
Saxophone and clarinets: Joachim Lenhardt
Guitar: David Klüttig
Guitar and electric guitar: David Motsonashvili
Double bass: Jens Petzold

 

Shaped by flight and displacement, driven by hope, humor, and confidence:

This extraordinary concert program brings together some of the most beautiful melodies of the Jewish diaspora, ranging from festive klezmer to love songs from Eastern European ghettos. Exile compositions by Fritz Kreisler and Kurt Weill encounter the Jewish-influenced swing of New York’s 1920s “Tin Pan Alley,” represented by George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and many others.

At the heart of the program is the instrument that, like no other, is able to tell the stories of the homeless and displaced: the violin. It is played by the German-Israeli violinist Max Eisinger, accompanied by clarinet, saxophone, two guitars, and double bass.

Music from the Diaspora is a homage to music that, in the darkest of times, almost disappeared forever from Germany’s cultural landscape.

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The program includes, among others:

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• Puttin’ On the Ritz (Irving Berlin)

• Liebesleid (Fritz Kreisler)

• Nigun Atik (traditional klezmer)

• Mack the Knife (Kurt Weill)

• Oh, Lady Be Good! (George Gershwin)

 

 

Max Eisinger, Violin

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Max Eisinger was born in Munich in 1993 and began playing the violin at the age of five. Growing up in a German-Jewish family, he discovered his love of improvisation through klezmer music, which ultimately led him to jazz. At the age of eleven, he made his debut at the Munich Philharmonic; his childhood and youth thereafter were shaped by concert tours throughout Germany and Europe as a soloist, orchestral musician, and jazz performer.

Max studied classical violin, jazz, and composition in Nuremberg, Hanover, Warsaw, and Amsterdam. He has composed, among others, for the Dutch National Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, as well as for numerous film and theatre productions. As a lecturer, Max teaches at several universities and music academies across Europe. In 2021, he was awarded the OPUS KLASSIK.