Christian Ludwig Mayer

Christian Ludwig Mayer ( born March 21, 1974 in Kempten ( Allgäu) ) is a German pianist and composer in the fields of Third Stream, Jazz, Swing, New Music, theater and music crossover. In the latter cases, it is also often work as accordionist and multi-instrumentalist. Since 2008 he performs under the name Ludwig floodplain.

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Biography

In his youth, Mayer brought the piano with a largely self-taught. After finishing high school in Kempten, he was already able to finance his musical studies with performances themselves. During his music studies at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and the Music Academy Augsburg- Nuremberg, he studied alongside his main professional jazz piano with Leonid Chizhik among other classical piano, harpsichord with Michael Eberth and jazz composition with Thomas Zoller. He also expanded his instrument self-teaching. As part of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, he took the same time to concerts in detention centers in part. The study, he finished with high school diplomas artistic maturity and musical education. He was one of the winners of Gasteig Promotion Prize 2002 with the program "Jazz Suites " consisting of original compositions for jazz piano trio. To education in the field of contemporary music, he took composition lessons with Laurence Traiger, Wilfried Hiller and Anton Prestele. Since then he has worked as a freelance composer and pianist both at home and abroad.

CLMayer performs internationally, as in Italy, France, Scotland, Ireland, Austria and Switzerland. Here he is usually heard as a soloist or in smaller formations. He spans the entire stylistic spectrum of jazz. Another focus is the study of ancient music and free improvisation.

Mayer worked and worked, among other artists such as Gunther Klatt, Yorgui Loeffler, Susanne Brantl, Marcus Woelfle, Bibi Johns, Georgette Dee, Meret Becker, Dirk Bach, Walter Plathe or Noël Akchoté. He composed, among others for Ottfried Fischer and the homeless ( with the Munich jazz trumpeter Claus Reichstaller ), the Art Ensemble of Passau ( with Yogo Pausch, Leopold Gmelch and Peter Tuscher ) as well as for their own formations such as the floodplain trio or the floodplain Consort. From 2010 to 2012, he worked under the pseudonym Louis floodplain with director Dieter Wedel, as musical director of the Nibelungen Festival Worms from 2010 to 2012 and the Zwinger Dresden Festival 2011.

Works (selection)

In addition to a variety of pieces from the fields of jazz and music for piano solo:

Stage

• Kornhausplatz Kempten 2013 The so-called Hengeler Art Revue or strange suffering of an art professor, composition, Writer, Director and Artistic Director: Christian Ludwig Mayer ( Music Theatre at the opening of large Adolf Hengeler exhibition, including the actor Winfried Frey as Hengeler )
• Nibelungen Festival Worms 2012 The assets of Mr. Sweet, Dieter Wedel and Joshua Sobol, director Dieter Wedel
• Zwingerfestspiele Dresden 2011 The mistress of the king, by Dieter Wedel and John von Duffel, directed by Dieter Wedel
• Nibelungen Festival Worms in 2011 called The Story of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer " Jud Süss", by Dieter Wedel and Joshua Sobol, director Dieter Wedel
• Nibelungen Festival Worms 2010 Devil, God and Caesar, by Dieter Wedel, director Dieter Wedel
• Munich National Theatre Much Ado About Nothing by W.Shakespeare, Director: Jorinda Dröse
• Schauburg (Munich ) The Visit of the Old Lady of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, directed by Gil Mehmert
• The Murder Farm, staged reading with music, Johanna Please Binder, Heinz- Josef Braun, Art Ensemble of Passau

Chamber Music

String Quartet in G ( 2009)

Orchestra music

Fantasy Pieces for Jazz Piano and Orchestra

Piano Concerto in G

Ballet Music

Genesis - A story of creation, read by Jörg Hube (2005)

Film Music

Otzenrath 3 ° colder, directed by Jens Schanze

Discography (selection)

Discography (film )

• Soundtrack to Der Schuh des Manitu, piano recordings BMG Ariola Media GmbH (74321 88290 2)
• Soundtrack to Leo and Claire, piano recordings BMG (74321-931752)
• Soundtrack to Who Grave Decisions longer, Piano

Links / sources

• Web presence by Ludwig floodplain
• Website of Christian Ludwig Mayer
• Biography
• Biography
• Conversation with Ludwig floodplain, (PDF, 75 kB) Ulrich Chaussy, Wilfried Hiller