Christian Weidner is a German jazz saxophonist and composer born on March 4, 1976, in Kassel. He performed with the Landesjugendjazzorchester Hessen and the Bundesjazzorchester between 1992 and 1998. He studied music in Hamburg, Stockholm, and Berlin under instructors including Kenny Werner and Kamalesh Maitra. In 1996, he won the Bundeswettbewerb Jugend jazzt with the Naima Jazzquintett. Weidner released his debut album Choral in 2004 through Pirouet Records. His discography included the studio recordings The Inward Song (2010), Dream Boogie (2012), and Every Hour of the Light and Dark (2016). He collaborated with Robert Landfermann and the trio Der Rote Bereich. Weidner curated the concert series Serious Series in Berlin starting in 2013 and became a professor for saxophone at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart in 2015. He appeared on the 2023 recording Two Compositions by Frank Gratkowski.
