Max Eisingers

​TACHELES

 

Music from the Diaspora

 

Violin: Max Eisinger  
Saxophone and Clarinet: Joachim Lenhardt  
Guitar: David Klüttig  
Guitar and Electric Guitar: David Motsonashvili  
Double Bass: Jens Petzold 

 

What began with flight, displacement, and oppression has often led to some of the most beautiful melodies ever created in music history. From the diaspora, we owe not only blues and swing but also samba, tango, klezmer, and the music of the Sinti and Roma.

Omnipresent is an instrument that, like no other, has the ability to tell the heartbreaking yet humorous stories of the homeless: the violin. It is the focal point of the new program of Max Eisinger's Tacheles: "Music from the Diaspora."

Accompanied by two guitars, double bass, as well as varying saxophone, clarinet, and bass clarinet, the German-Israeli violinist Max Eisinger celebrates the cultural wealth of the 20th century, paying homage to music that, in the darkest times, nearly disappeared forever from the German cultural landscape: Schnuckenack Reinhardt, Louis Armstrong, Fritz Kreisler, Giora Feidman, Irving Berlin, Astor Piazzolla, and many more.

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The program includes, among others:

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• Me Hum Mato (Schnuckenack Reinhardt)

• Tates Freilach (Klezmer traditional)

• Liebesleid (Fritz Kreisler)

• On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Jimmy McHugh)

• Libertango (Astor Piazzolla)

• Les Valseuses (Stephane Grappelli)

• Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Shalom Secunda)

• Minor Swing (Django Reinhardt)

• Czardas (Vittorio Monti)

 

 

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 various jazz ensembles, 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. Additionally, he is 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 national youth competition Jugend Musiziert, and at the Music Swap Lab of the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, with which he received the OPUS KLASSIK in 2021.