Arifa Quartet (Special Guest from Kingdom of Netherlands)

Zhivko Vasilev (BG) Kaval

Bence Huszar (HU) Cello

Franz von Chossy (GR) Piano

Sjahin During (TR/NL) Percussion

Ancient musical traditions from the Middle East and Balkans are blended with jazz and contemporary improvised music through a Western frame of mind.

Arifa’s secret lies in the creative chemistry between its four members. Coming from Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkey, the Netherlands and Germany their music is just as diverse as their origins, moving from traditional Turkish and Balkan sounds to jazz and contemporary music.

Arifa was founded in 2010 by percussionist Sjahin During. Since then they have performed in 28 countries worldwide and 5 continents at international festivals and venues.

Their CD ’Beyond Babylon’ was released in 2010, ’Anatolian Alchemy’ in 2012, “Voices from the East” in 2014 and their fourth album Secret Poetry” in 2019.

They were consecutively awarded the title “best world music release” in the Netherlands to five star reviews and highly acclaimed internationally.

Indo German International Jazz Week

Oct 5 to 11, 2022

A Week of Jazz

Presented by The Consulate General of The Federal Republic of Germany in association with The Bangalore School of Music curated by the Jazz & Contemporary Dept .

Following up on this year’s highly successful International Jazz Day Bengaluru on April 29 & 30 – The Indo German International Jazz Week, an initiative conceived during the pandemic, aims to spread the footprint of jazz between the two countries Germany & India. Globally Jazz stands for unity in diversity, spirit of creativity, celebration of the human spirit, fostering peace, harmony, and goodwill, and to bring about a positive change in the environment. 

It will be a heady week of Jazz from Klaus Graf Quartet (Germany), Arifa Quartet (Netrherlands), Maarten Visser (Chennai), MoonArra World Fusion Ensemble, Gerard Machado Trio, Suvankar Ghosh Plus Other Stories, Vivek Santhosh Trio, Raman Iyer Quartet from Oct 5 to the 11, 2022.