Afshin Ghavami – flamenco guitar
Afshin Ghavami is of Iranian origin and he is estimated as a virtuosic and sensitive flamenco guitarist. Afshin began his flamenco guitar training by Armin baker. Then he accompanied various Flamenco dancers. Afshin Ghavami [...]
Abbos Kosimov – Percussion
Abbos Kosimov is known worldwide as a phenomena among international percussionists. His dynamic performances have made him wellknown around the world as a master of Doyra and ambassador of Uzbek culture. „Doyra is my life [...]
Andreas Heuser – guitars, violin
Andreas Heuser is an autodidact. After his years as a beginner followed a classical and jazz guitar studies and many years of practical work with non-european (especially oriental) music. These stations are the most important [...]
Bobo – Vocals
Bobo, known by the world success "Angel" by Rammstein, grew up in Saxony-Anhalt in one church family of musicians with hymns and songs of romance, before she discovered singer-songwriters, rock bands and her own passion [...]
Antje Vetter – violin
Through her continued commitment in various ensembles and her degrees in music pedagogy (Folkwang) and jazz violin (Arnhem) Antje Vetter has earned since than an outstanding experience. Her unmistakable style is defined by the combination [...]
Benjamin Stein – Persian instruments
Benjamin Stein has learned several instruments self-educated in his childhood, he played in bands CMEP and Fara Toga Man, but he has increasingly turned to Eastern European and Middle Eastern musical traditions and began to [...]
Dirko Juchem –flute
Dirko Juchem has initially learned the jazz flute from Emil Mangesldorff and later he studied with Herb Geller at the Hamburg Music Academy. Concerts and CD productions were under among othes with Rolf Harris, Thomas [...]
Daniel Düring (guitar)
Daniel Düring has been active for many years in the music scene of the Ruhr. Stylistically he moves between rock, jazz and Global Pop. In his appearances to the instrumental project "Guitar Comics" the sound [...]
Eric Peachey – percussion
Eric Peachey Eric Peachey is drummer and percussionist. His musical journey goes from R & B, blues, progressive rock, jazz, Impovisation, Latin, tabla and flamenco, where he absorbed the essence of musical styles.Since [...]
Jatinder Thakur – tabla
Jatinder Thakur - Master living in Vienna - is one of the best Indian tabla players in Europe. He has a name not only in the traditional role as companion of high level Indian soloists, [...]
Edmund Held – trumpet
Edmund Held was born in Russia, where he grew up in a musical family. Since 1992 he lives in Germany. He studied classical trumpet at the Folkwang University in Essen and played in numerous orchestras [...]
Fethi Ak – Virtuosic Percussion
Fethi Ak, who was born in Germany, started to play at Turkish weddings on darbuka when he was a child. Meanwhile, he is one of the most virtuosic darbuka players in Germany and he is [...]
Javier Paxariño – saxophone, flute, among others
Javier Paxariño Javier Paxariño plays soprano saxophone, bass flute, bass clarinet, Turkish clarinet, shakuhachi and Ti-Tze. His music mixes folk sounds and rhythms from Spain, India, Turkey and China in his personal and [...]
Jorge Pardo – flute
In 2012 Jorge Pardo was awarded for his lifetime achievements by the Academia du Jazz - with the Prix du musicien europeen. More information here! Download picture (3 MB)
Jens Pollheide – flute, bass
By almost everything what has to do with world music and mixing of various forms of improvisation, is Jens Pollheide a welcome musician in the Ruhr region - as a flutist or bassist. Jens [...]
Jho Kaufmann – piano, accordion
Jho Kaufmann Jho Kaufmann is a pianist and accordionist. After classical education in Darmstadt (main subject - bassoon, piano and counterpoint/composition), he worked as a bassoonist with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. Since 1970, [...]
Kilema – Multi-Instrumentalist
Kilema is a charismatic performer, multi-instrumentalist and a songwriter. Born in Madagascar and immigrated through adoption to Andalusia, he is one of the most popular representatives of his native country. By working with Peter Gabriel [...]
Jim Galakti – trumpet
Although the Russian trumpet player and composer first proposed initially a classical direction during his military service and later at the music academy in Kiev, he was more and more influenced by Jazz music. It’s [...]