Percussionist/composer Christian Lillinger (b.1984 Lübben, Germany) studied with the renowned drummer Günter »Baby« Sommer at the Dresden Royal Conservatory. An exceptional virtuoso player, Lillinger is also acknowledged as composer and bandleader. The Berlin News called him a »completely new type of jazz drummer«, and the prestigious weekly Der SPIEGEL saw in Lillinger a »drum revolutionary« and a »shinning light«. Lillinger has worked with such greats as William Parker, Dave Liebman, Rolf and Joachim Kühn, Alexander von Schlippenbach and John Tchicai, and has stepped forward with such young collaborators as Ronny Graupe in the group Hyperactive Kid and Wanja Slavin in Starlight.