Oct 6 Thu 2022 Featuring:

1. Raman Iyer Quartet
2. Suvankar Plus Other Stories
3. Gerard Machado Trio

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.

Oct 6 Thu 2022 Featuring:

Suvankar Plus Other Stories

Lineup

Suvankar Ghosh- Guitar 

Avinash Srinivas- Drums

Akshay- Bass

Bio

We will be performing our originals.

 Our music is mix of many different styles. Swing , funk, blues with some overdriven guitar.We play pan genre, unbiased, guitar music but certainly improvisation and interaction between bandmates are the huge part for every compositions.

Gerard Machado Trio

Lineup

Gerard Machado- Guitar

Jeoraj Stanly George- Drums

Joshua Costa- Piano

Bio

Masters in their own right, the Trio known for delivering the best to Jazz enthusiasts and connoisseurs of music. Their music is a blend of Bebop jazz, blues, Funk and Latin elements.The band comprises of Gerard Machado on Guitar, Jeoraj Stanly George on Drums & Joshua Costa on Keyboards. Gerard Machado based in Bangalore is one of India’s most accomplished Jazz guitarists and has represented India at several international Jazz festivals. Besides being a virtuoso Jazz guitarist, he is also a prolific composer & music producer with original music albums to his credit.

Raman Iyer Quartet

Raman Iyer – Sax/Flute

Victor Francis – Drums

Ignatius Daniel – Keyboards

Mario Naveen Steven - Bass

Saxman Raman is considered by many to be the best saxophonist in Bangalore. He is a prolific performer and has 3500 live performances in the past 22 years. He performs at concerts, club shows, wedding reeptions, parties corporate events, pubs and restraunts and recordings, playing Jazz and Western and Indo Fusion and Popular music.

He has performed all over India and in Nepal, Srilanka, Vietnam, Malaysia, England, Scotland, Dubai, Muscat, Maldives, Thailand, Maurutius, Wales and Ireland with different bands and as a solo act.