Projects

Max Eisinger spricht Tacheles…mit seinem neuen Quintett aus 2 Gitarren, Kontrabass und wechselnd Saxophon, Klarinette und Bassklarinette.
Im Fokus des Programms steht die stilistische und kulturelle Vielfalt der Violine im 20. Jahrhunderts: Stephane Grappelli, Schnuckenack Reinhardt, Fritz Kreisler und jüdische Klezmer-Musik aus der europäischen Diaspora.
Selbst aus einer deutsch-israelischen Familie stammend, ist der Klezmer von Kleinauf elementarerer Bestandteil von Max Eisingers musikalischem Werdegang. Über den Klezmer zur Improvisation, von der Improvisation zu Stephane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt und schließlich zum Jazz — mit der klassischen Musik als seine stete Begleiterin.

Since 2015 the Feuerbach Quartett is mixing up the German and European chamber music scene.
Handmade, highly innovative arrangements of rock and pop music combined with original repertoire for classical string quartet from Haydn to Bartok make the Feuerbach Quartett’s shows a uniquity in the German and European music landscape and makes the quartet tour through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Italy on a regular basis.
The quartet’s 5 studio albums and multiple single releases have been highly praised by the most important German radio stations and music magazines, such as the Deutschlandfunk Kultur, WDR, SWR, Bayern 2, BR Klassik, and the classical music magazine “Crescendo” (Read their review on the latest album “Brahms Britten Beatles” here)

Violin, cello and grooves from classical to jazz and indie-rock

Since many years they are celebrating one success after another with the Feuerbach Quartett, now they got together to form a new duo: Max Eisinger (violin) and Lukas Kroczek (cello) — aka MAKRO — play original compositions between classical and indie-rock, and arrangements of music by Bach, Halvorsen, Piazzolla, Tschaikowski, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and many more.

REINHARDTSGEBOT. A group of young jazz musicians from Bavaria who share their love for two things: Bavarian beer and good music. Particularly the music in the style of Django Reinhardt, often referred to as “Gypsy Jazz”, as well as Jewish Klezmer music.
The trio line-up including violin, guitar and double bass, can be extended by additional instruments such as clarinet, saxophone, piano, drums or more guitars for the real “hot club sound”. The band’s inexhaustible repertoire of swing, klezmer and traditional jazz works perfectly as dance music, but also for the background. This makes Reinhardtsgebot with more than 100 gigs per year the perfect deal for weddings, birthday, or dance parties.

The “Music Swap Lab” is a participation project by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Through online tutorials and live workshops musicians of all ages and levels are encouraged to become part of a digital symphony orchestra. They don’t even need to play an instrument: Beatboxing, dancing, clapping, or drumming with kitchen tools; everything’s allowed. Right in the middle: The professional musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. 2021 the “Music Swap Lab” was awarded with the renowned “Opus Klassik” in the category “best participation project”. Max Eisinger is part of the team since the very first moment and recorded multiple tutorials, which can be seen here.

Allemande, Courante, Sarabande: The violinist and jazz musician Max Eisinger plays Bach’s Paritita No. 2 in d minor. But almost unnoticeably the Allemande starts to swing, the Courante develops into a funky groove, and the Sarabande becomes a Flamenco. Max Eisinger is transforming the baroque court dances to contemporary styles.
His congenial partner is the four times world champion, European champion and German champion of classical ballet and Latin dance, Diana Starnets (known from “Let’s Dance” and other TV shows.) Her impressively artistic movements combine the elegance of ballet with the eccentricity and erotism of Latin American dances.

Mit seinem Jazz Quartett (Violine, Klavier, Kontrabass, Schlagzeug) spielt Max Eisinger seine eigenen Kompositionen, die sich stilistisch in der Tradition des Swing und des modalen Jazz bewegen. Deutlich erkennbar sind die Einflüsse Johan Coltranes, sowie prägender Jazzgeiger wie Zbigniew Seifert, Regina Carter, Jean-Luc Ponty und Stephane Grappelli.
Das Quartett wird gelegentlich um weitere Instrumente und Gastmusiker*innen (z.B. Saxophon, Gitarre) erweitert.