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Goldberg and Other Variations – From Bach to Charlie Parker

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Goldberg and Other Variations – From Bach to Charlie Parker

For many years, they have celebrated international success with the Feuerbach Quartet, and now they have teamed up as a new duo: MAKRO. Max Eisinger (violin) and Lukas Kroczek (cello) play original compositions that blend classical music, jazz, and indie rock. Radical rhythm meets colorful harmony, virtuosic improvisations blend with catchy refrains.

The program is expanded with arrangements of classical originals like Halvorsen’s Passacaglia and Bach’s Goldberg Variations, as well as jazz standards from Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Django Reinhardt.

In spring 2023, the duo will release their first single “STYX,” which will be published by the Bremen-based indie label FUEGO.

Max Eisinger, Violin

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Max Eisinger was born in 1993 in Munich and began playing the violin at the age of 5. Through klezmer music, he discovered his love for improvisation, which eventually led him to jazz. At 11 years old, he made his debut at the Munich Philharmonic, and regular appearances as a soloist, jazz, and orchestral musician shaped his childhood and youth. He has performed with the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Young German Philharmonic, the Stegreif Orchestra Berlin, the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, and numerous jazz formations, including gypsy jazz guitarists Stochelo Rosenberg and Diknu Schneeberger, as well as saxophonist Mulo Francel (Quadro Nuevo).

Max studied classical violin, jazz, and composition in Nuremberg, Hanover, Warsaw, and Amsterdam. His engagements as a musician and composer have taken him to Austria, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Israel, Poland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Since 2021, he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Theater and Dance in Amsterdam. He is also a sought-after instructor for chamber music and improvisation at the Weikersheim Music Academy, the University of Music, Theater and Media in Hanover, at the Jugend Musiziert national competition, and at the Music Swap Lab of the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, with which he received the OPUS KLASSIK in 2021.

Lukas Kroczek, Cello

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Lukas Kroczek was born in 1987 in Poland and began his first cello lessons at the age of 5. At 15, he was accepted as a young student at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, before continuing his education with studies at the Nuremberg University of Music with Prof. Siegmund v. Hausegger in 2007.

He is a prizewinner of Jugend Musiziert and the chamber music competition of the Mozart Society Nuremberg. He has played with the Lower Bavarian Philharmonic, the Nuremberg Symphonists, and has been a member of the Feuerbach Quartet since 2013, touring Germany and Europe. Lukas teaches as an instrumental teacher and lecturer at various music schools in Bavaria, at the Weikersheim Music Academy, for Jeunesse Musicales, the Beethoven Society Bonn, and the German Music Council. He is a regular jury member at renowned chamber music and solo competitions.

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