Nov 08 2025 to Nov 08 2025 6 p.m.

Where

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

716, Chinmaya Mission Hospital Road, First Stage, Indiranagar, Bengaluru 560038

Event Description

We are celebrating music beyond borders!

The Bengaluru Jazz Fest in association with BOSCH is a 7-day extravaganza of Jazz, featuring a diverse range of artists and ensembles from across India and abroad, including the Bosch Big Band.

The festival opens at the Bhavan with ‘Indo-German Jazz Fusion’ featuring Stree Taal Tarang, an ensemble consisting exclusively of Indian musicians who play classical Indian percussion, and Magnus Dauner // Portrait in Rhythm Ensemble from Germany, accompanied by Karthik Mani, a renowned artist from Bangalore. 

Stree Taal Tarang Ensemble:
Sukanya Ramgopal – Ghata Tarang, Ghatam and Konnakol
Vani Manjunath – Flute
Lakshmi Rajsekar Iyer - Mridangam

Sukanya Ramgopal is an Indian carnatic musician from Tamil Nadu. She is best known as the first woman ghatam player in Carnatic music. She is also proficient in carnatic vocal, violin, mridangam and veena. She received several awards including Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Karnataka Sangeeta Nritya Academy Award and awards from Madras Music Academy, Chennai. Sukanya Ramgopal is best known as the first woman ghatam player in Carnatic music.

Magnus Dauner // Portrait in Rhythm Ensemble:
Magnus Dauner - Drums
Karthik Mani - Percussion
Andreas Schütz - Piano, Keys
Andreas Unterreiner - Trumpet
Kilian Sladek - Vocals
Lukas Pamminger - Bass
feat. Sinchan Dixit - Vocals and Jagadeesh M.R - Guitar

Magnus Dauner is not only a studied jazz drummer, but also a musical globetrotter. His passion for rhythm takes him all over the world and, for the last ten years, regularly to Bangalore in South India, where he studies the fascinating South Indian rhythm language Konnakol and Mridangam at the Karnataka College of Percussion. Over the years Dauner collaborated with many indian musicians like R.A. Ramamani, T.A.S. Mani, Karthik Mani, Dr. Suma Sudhindra, Amith Nadig, B.C. Manjunath and many others.

In Portrait in Rhythm, German percussionist Magnus Dauner weaves a sonic tapestry of stillness and movement, tension and release; embedded in lilting and rousing rhythms. Inspired by the artist’s time at the Karnataka College of Percussion in Bengaluru, the project explores the temporal flow of South Indian classical music while drawing from the vast reservoir of world music and contemporary sound.

The India tour of Portrait in Rhythm is supported by Goethe-Institut.

Entry to all concerts is free, but RSVP is mandatory.