Born in Siegen in 1983, Katharina Hoffmann received her classical cello cello training with Klaus-Dieter Brandt (Musica Antiqua Cologne), Katharina Troe (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne) and Juris Teichmanis in Freiburg i. Brsg. In 2016 she published her dissertation in musicology on the Italian composer Luigi Nono composer Luigi Nono (1924-1990) at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar.

Franz Liszt in Weimar. For several years now, her main interest has been in contemporary compositional processes and the modal musical structures and improvisation and improvisation techniques of oriental music cultures. This is reflected in her own musical repertoire: the music of the Duo Neshan, which she founded in 2019, the Scott Fields Ensemble or the Duo Celsant. Her concert appearances and CD productions have taken her to other European countries as well as to La Réunion and Madagascar.

Katharina Hoffmann

Hindol Deb

Hindol Deb, sitarist and composer, has explored the infinite combinations in the crossover of Indian music with various other genres such as contemporary western classical, jazz, flamenco and Nordic folk music. After playing many concerts of classical Indian music and participating in crossover projects, he pursued a Masters in Jazz Improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, Germany to find his own individuality and sound. He is involved in several projects including Essence of Duality, a jazz crossover quartet; Northlight, an Indo-Nordic quartet; the Ensemble Migrantis Aves, which plays traditional compositions from various countries. Hindol has been invited for artist residencies by the Academy of Carnegie Hall, Recollets and Goethe Institut. He has collaborated with some artists and musicians like Marina Abrahmovic, Markus Stockhausen, Sebastian Gramss, Mattias Perez, Uma Dogra, Daksha Mashruwala and others

Simon Tressin

Simon Tressin is a percussionist and drummer who is working on a fusion of both instruments. From 2009 to 2013 he studied oriental percussion at Ritm Hanesi Istanbul with Grandmaster Misirli Ahmet (AKA Ahmet Yildirim). He went on study trips to Egypt and Bulgaria as well as Hungary and took part in numerous master classes in frame drums with Zohar Fresko and Yshai Aftermann (Israel). In Cairo he learned darbuka from local greats such as Hani Morgan and traveled to Sinai to play music with Bedouins and international musicians and to explore the natural acoustics of the rocky gorges in the silence of the desert. He took tabla lessons with Debasish Bhattachajee and explores the depths of North and South Indian rhythms. The fusion of oriental or eastern rhythms and jazz as well as various folklore and the respective progressive trends is the focus of his work.Write your text here...

Ronas Sheikhmous

Write your text hRonas Sheikhmous was born in the Syrian city of Kahtania, which has a predominantly Kurdish population. He learned the Kurdish flute and also Arabic nay, especially from Muslim Rahhal and over the years he developed his musical knowledge further. Due to his origins in the border region, he has a large traditional Kurdish, Arabic and Aramaic/Arminian repertoire.

In 2014 he came to Germany, where he continued his artistic work and took part in many different projects, as a Dudukist with Asambura Ensemble, Dudukist, Bilûrist(Kurdish flute) in Danûk Band (Kurdish music group) the first album (Morîk May 2023 released). As a Ney soloist he has performed in Denmark, Belgium and France. He learned instrument making from a number of leading ney makers in the Arab world. He is also a composer for film music, Currently active as Ney, Duduk and other oriental instruments at Orpheus xxi NRW.