2023-01-21

We celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year with an old traditional chinese string instrument, the Guqin, played by Xu Zhen.

The 39th Baithak (intimate house concert) features the international trio Danae Estrela (vocals, guitar) from Cape Verde, Hans Bilger (double bass) from New York, and Raimund Engelhardt (Tabla, Percussion).

Time: 21 January 2023, 19:00 hrs
Location: Kiefholzstr. 21, 12435 Berlin
Entrance: Donation

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2022-12-02

The 38th Baithak (intimate house concert) features a vocal performance by Sumeet Anand supported on pakhavaj by Raimund Engelhardt. Sumeet was born into a musical family and received tutelage from Abhay Narayan Mallick in the Darbhanga tradition. Raimund studied tabla and pakhavaj in the Benares tradition in India, where he spent more than a decade.

Time: 2 December 2022, 19:00 hrs
Location: Kiefholzstr. 21, 12435 Berlin
Entrance: Donation

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2022-08-13

On 13 August 2022 starting 19:30 hrs Diptesh Bhattacharya (sarod) and Sanjib Kumar Pal (tabla) will perform an intimate house concert at Kopernikusstraße 19, 10245 Berlin. Entry: donation.

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2022-07-07

The 37th Baithak on 7 July 2022 starting 18:00 hrs in Kulturbund Treptow, Ernststr. 14/16, 12437 Berlin, features Sumeet Anand (dhrupad vocal) and Raimund Engelhardt (pakhavaj). Entry: donation.

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2022-06-12

The 36th Baithak on 12 June 2022 starting at 11:00 hrs in Wagenburg Lohmühle in Alt-Treptow (Lohmühlenstraße 17, 12435 Berlin) features Sumeet Anand Pandey (dhrupad vocal), Sebastian Dreyer (sitar), and Raimund Engelhardt (tabla/pakhavaj) for an open air summer concert of morning ragas. Entry: donation.

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2021-12-05

The 35th Baithak on 5 December 2021 in Alt-Treptow features Ashraf Sharif Khan (sitar) and Raimund Engelhardt (tabla) for an evening with classical music from Pakistan. Also featured: intro performance by Mahmood Ramzani from Iran (setar). 2G+. Entry: donation.

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Welcome to the blog of Berlin Raga Tribe (BRT).

This is the Facebook group description: "Berlin Raga Tribe (BRT) is a loose and open group of musicians and students of classical Indian Raga Music based in and around Berlin. BRT is interested in exchanging and spreading that beautiful artform and is activly arranging intimate house concerts and the like."

The purpose of this blog is to describe past and future events connected to this association.

Please feel free to join our Facebook group and check out the BRT-YouTube-Channel. Or contact berlinragatribe@gmail.com for information.

CANCELLED! 2020-03-14

The 35th Baithak on 14 March 2020 in Alt-Treptow features Prabhat Rao (khyal), Pulkit Sharma (tabla), and Roy Sunak (flute). Entry: donation.

Prabhat Rao is a Hindustani classical singer based in London. He is a disciple of Ojesh Pratap Singh of the Gwalior, Agra and Jaipur gharanas. He previously trained under Chandrima Misra at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London.

Pulkit Sharma is a tabla artist - a soloist and accompanist - who trained under Sarvar Sabri.

Roy Sunak has learned the bansuri and has been trained in Hindustani classical music by Sameer Rao. Prior to his studies in India, he learned Jazz in New York and Israel. He is based in Berlin.

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2020-02-02

The 34th Baithak on 2 February 2020 in Alt-Treptow features Carnatic musicians Aarti Swaminathan (vocals), Vijay Kannan (flute), and Balakrishna Rao (mridangam). Entry: donation.

About Carnatic music:

Carnatic music is the art music of South India. Purandara Dasa is considered the father of Carnatic music. Carnatic music has primarily been associated with Bhakti although as a music form it is quite diverse and complex. It has evolved over the centuries thanks to different composers (vaggeyakaras) and performers which include the Trinity of Carnatic music: Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar, and Shyama Shastri.

About the artists:

Vocal: Aarti Swaminathan

Aarti Swaminathan was initiated into Carnatic vocal music at the age of five at Trivandrum, India. After her initial training under Sri Padmanabhan and Smt. Chithra Sureshkumar, she took up advanced lessons from Karur Sri Krishnamoorthy and Smt G. Seethalakshmi, a senior disciple of Semmangudi Sri Srinivasa Iyer. Apart from being associated with Carnatic vocal music for the past 22 years, Aarti has also learned Carnatic violin from Smt. Padma and Sri Easwara Varma. She has been regularly giving concerts from a very early age and has won awards and prizes including the prestigious G N Balasubramaniam Memorial Award. Aarti moved to Berlin in 2015 to pursue her PhD in Biology from Göttingen where she had completed her Master's degree. She has been a regular contributor to and performer for the Göttingen and Berlin Indian music scene. Currently she is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Charité university hospital in Berlin.

Flute: Vijay Kannan

Vijay Kannan has been associated with music from the age of six. Having been trained in Carnatic singing, he took up the flute out of a fascination for the instrument and learned to play on his own. His passion for music has resulted in collaborations all over the world. He has released four albums in a series titled "Haunting Bamboo", which contains improvisational Indian ragas rendered on the bamboo flute with an emphasis on aiding meditation and relaxation. He's a regular in the jazz, world music, and improv scene in Berlin and Germany and also regularly dons the role of a music advisor and session musician in the Indian film industry. Also a composer and music producer, he has had his works featured in the BBC and used in independent films and documentaries. He completed his PhD in electrical engineering and lived in Berlin for the past nine years.

Mridangam: Balakrishna Rao

Born in a musical family, Balakrishna Rao started to learn mridangam at the age of eight, from his father Soorali R Ganesha Murthy, a renowned mridangist from Karnataka. He was later attracted to the playing style of Kalaimamani Srimushnam Sri V Raja Rao and moved to Chennai to take up advanced training from him under the gurukula system for three years. Balakrishna has won several prizes and accolades in mridangam competitions and has been part of various concert series in music festivals in India and abroad. His musical tours have taken him to various countries in Europe and China where his mridangam accompaniment has been well received and appreciated. He has completed his PhD in physics at Saarland University, Germany, in 2016 and is currently working as a research scientist for Daimler in Stuttgart.

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2019-12-03

The 33rd Baithak on 3 December 2019 in Alt-Treptow features khyal vocalist Anagha Bhat and Laura Patchen on tabla. In the second part of the event, the project Yatra project will present a musical fusion of Persian and Indian music and other cultural influences with Mahmoud Ramzani on setar, Doron Furman on oud, Sogul Livani on vocals, Vijay Kannan on bansuri, and Raimund Engelhardt on tabla. Entry: donation.

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2019-11-30

The 32nd Baithak on 30 November 2019 in Alt-Treptow features dhrupad vocalist Sumeet Anand Pandey, exponent of the Darbhanga tradition, and Raimund Engelhardt accompanying on pakhavaj. Entry: donation.

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2019-11-15

The 31st Baithak on 15 November 2019 in Alt-Treptow will feature Ustad Irfan Khan on sarod, Matyas Wolter on sitar and surbahar, Markus Schlaffke on rubab, and Sanjib Pal accompanying on tabla and pakhavaj. Entry: donation.

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2019-08-30

The 30th Baithak on 30 August 2019 in Alt-Treptow will feature Ashraf Sharif Khan Poonchwale on sitar, Matyas Wolter on surbahar, Beate Gatscha will sing dhrupad and accompany on pakhavaj and Raimund Engelhardt plays tabla. Entry: donation.

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2019-07-17

The 29th Baithak on 17 July 2019 in Alt-Treptow will feature Alexander Konanchuk on sitar and Amir Khan with vocals and tabla. Entry: donation.

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2019-06-30

A concert on 30 June 2019 in Niederschöneweide will feature performances by Carsten Wicke on rudra vina and Raimund Engelhardt on pakhavaj, and Derya Takkali on bağlama.

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2019-05-26

A concert on 26 May 2019 in Niederschöneweide will feature performances by Roy Sunak on bansuri and Laura Patchen on tabla, and Milad Khawam on duduk und trumpet and Saleh Katbeh on oud.

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2019-04-28

A concert on 28 April 2019 in Niederschöneweide will feature performances by Matyas Wolter on surbahar and Beate Gatscha on pakhavaj, and Larry Porter on rubab and Solayman Alizo on tabla.

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2019-04-14

The 28th Baithak on 14 April 2019 in Alt-Treptow will feature Ashraf Sharif Khan on sitar, Sebastian Dreyer on surbahar, Hanna Pashkevich with vocals and on pakhavaj, and Raimund Engelhardt on pakhavaj and tabla.

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2019-03-31

A concert on 31 March 2019 in Niederschöneweide will feature performances by Doron Furman on oud, Raimund Engelhardt on tabla, Mahmoud Ramzani on setar and Alexander Konanchuk on sitar.

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2019-03-22

The 27th Baithak on 22 March 2019 in Alt-Treptow will feature violin player Madhuri Chattophadhyay accompanied by Cornelius Hogeweg on tabla, sitar player Alexander Konanchuk and violin player Tove Waldemarson. The evening is being opened by piano player Wolf Geisler. Entry: donation.

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