Home - Christos Asonitis | Drummer - Educator

Welcome!

Discover the musical journey of Christos Asonitis, a drummer, educator and composer specialising in jazz and latin music.

From his studies and collaborations in Greece to his master’s degree in Munich and international performances, Christos brings a wealth of experience and passion to his craft.

Explore his albums, including “An Ode To The Light” and “Rapsodia Cubana” and learn about his current performance and teaching activities.

"Christos Asonitis is a drummer as imaginative as inconspicuous, highly sophisticated and widely awaked, eliciting an abundance of sound shades and doesn't slip off into mechanical routine."

The New Listener

"As a composer, Christos Asonitis leaves nothing to chance, but rather places great value on sophisticated arrangements that seem downright classic."

Volksblatt

"Christos Asonitis elicits vocal qualities from his instruments and is wide awake towards chamber music."

BR-Klassik

"An Ode to The Light" is an album that adorns the contemporary Greek jazz discography... "

Fontas Troussas - Vinylmine

"Christos Asonitis Quintet is without a doubt one of the most beautiful new discoveries of our time."

Oli Palko - Jazz Club Cave 61 e.V.

"An Ode To The Light" is a wonderful album of European jazz with a few Greek musical "shades", imaginative orchestrations and high skill levels of all its performers."

Thanos Mantzanas - Avgi

“…a dense soundscape full of patterns and languages that was never boring and always fascinated. Jazz at it’s best.”

Lichtensteiner Vaterland