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Christian Lillinger (born 21 April 1984 in Lübben ) is a German drummer, composer and percussionist.

Biography
Christian Lillinger grew up in the German village of Kuschkow. He studied with Günter Sommer at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden between 2000 and 2004.

Between August 2016 and March 2017 Lillinger is a scholar of the Bartels Fondation

In 2017 he founded his music label PLAIST-MUSIC, which releases contemporary genre-free avant-garde music.

He plays in the trio Punkt.Vrt.Plastik with Swedish bassist Petter Elh and Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler, with whom he released a self titled album in 2018.

Honors
2017: SWR Jazzpreis 2017