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About Stephan Lill
- Stephan Lill is a German guitarist best known for his work with the Progressive metal band Vanden Plas. Stephan Lill was born on November 30, 1968 in Eitorf, Germany.
- His interest in music, and especially in playing guitar, was awakened early with his discovery of AC/DC and their outstanding lead guitarist Angus Young when he was 12. At only 15, Stephan joined the band Vanden Plas.
- Since then, he has released 11 CDs worldwide with Vanden Plas, and performed in shows and tours in Europe and the USA with bands including Dream Theater, Savatage, and Angra.
- As both guitarist and songwriter, Stephan collaborated in projects with Missa Mercuria and the Consortium Project.
- In addition, to date, he and his Vanden Plas bandmates have composed 4 rock operas (Ludus Danielis, Christ 0, Everyman, Chronicles of the Immortals), which were performed at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz/Munich, Theater Münster, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Theater Pforzheim and the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck. As a guitarist, Stephan has played throughout Germany in musicals including Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors, Chess, Evita, and Rocky Horror Picture Show, to name a few. In 2010, Stephan performed together with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra in the German premiere of Yaron Gottfried's Concerto for Electric Guitar, String Orchestra and Percussion. The American-based company TTM Guitars was so impressed with Stephan's playing that it has been building signature guitars for him since 2011.
- Some of the bands Stephan likes to listen to are Blue Murder, In Flames, Metallica, Dream Theater, Slipknot, Ill Niño , Dokken, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, House of Lords, and of course, AC/DC. Other works from Stephan can be found on • Missa Mercuria • Consortium Project
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