MAKRO

 

X-Mas Special

 

Violin, Cello, and Christmas Grooves from Classical to Swing

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During the Christmas season, violin meets cello, and classical music encounters swing:

 

Bach's Christmas Oratorio merges in a program with Let It Snow and Tchaikovsky’s Sugar Plum Fairy. When Santa Claus Comes to Town, he dances to Piazzolla’s Libertango and enjoys Schubert's Ave Maria, before Wham! brings him back to the present with Last Christmas.

The X-Mas Special by MAKRO combines contemplation with humor, tradition with avant-garde.

The program includes arrangements of:

•   J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio (excerpts)

• B. Britten: Ceremony of Carols (excerpts)

• F. Schubert: Ave Maria

• J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations

• A. Piazzolla: Libertango

• Handel/Halvorsen: Passacaglia

• J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins

• P. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)

• Christmas songs including Let It Snow, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Kommet ihr Hirten.

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Max Eisinger, Violin

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Max Eisinger was born in Munich in 1993 and started playing the violin at the age of 5. Through klezmer music, he discovered his love for improvisation, which eventually led him to jazz. At the age of 11, he made his debut at the Munich Philharmonie, and he regularly performed as a soloist, jazz, and orchestral musician. He has performed with the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Young German Philharmonie, and the Stegreif Orchestra Berlin, among others.

Max studied classical violin, jazz, and composition in Nuremberg, Hannover, Warsaw, and Amsterdam. He is now a sought-after instructor and has been awarded the OPUS KLASSIK in 2021.

 

Lukas Kroczek, Cello

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Lukas Kroczek was born in Poland in 1987 and began cello lessons at the age of 5. He continued his education at the Nuremberg University of Music. He is a prizewinner at Jugend Musiziert and the Chamber Music Competition of the Mozart Association Nuremberg. Since 2013, he has been part of the Feuerbach Quartet and tours regularly throughout Europe.

Lukas teaches as an instrumental teacher and lecturer at several music schools in Bavaria and regularly serves as a jury member for chamber music and solo competitions.

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