Concert
Bosque Magico

Thu, 30.08.2018
6:30 PM Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Two languages and 2000 kilometres separate their cultures. But this distance melts away in the face of Bosque Magico's musical level. We are happy to host a concert featuring our partner and one of Bangalore's well-known musicians Karthik Mani AND German guitarist Ralf Siedhoff, along with Mykyta Sierov.

Bosque Magico lineup:
Ralf Siedhoff (Germany): Guitar
Karthik Mani (India): Percussion
Mykyta Sierov (Ukraine): Oboe

The music of Bosque Magico, composed by Ralf Siedhoff, is inspired by flamenco, jazz, world and classical music. Mykyta Sierov's oboe, centred around melody and improvisation, appears atypical in this non-classical context. Improvisations in classical, Indian, Balkan and pop music-inspired compositions are novel for this instrument and open up a relatively unknown sound universe.The guitar voice, provided by Ralf Siedhoff, has orchestral elements with bass, harmony and rhythmic function. And the inclusion of the marvellous percussion by Karthik Mani adds a special piquancy.

Ralf Siedhoff was born in Weimar. After 1988 he specialised in acoustic guitar and started performing with the well-known Edwin Sadowski.

During this time, he gained repute as one of the greatest talents of the former GDR (East German) jazz scene. In 1990, he founded his own trio, performing and jamming all over Germany together with Eberhard Weber, Markus Stockhausen, Trilok Gurtu, Agnes Buen Garnas, Ramesh Shotham, Thomas Alkier, Prof. Ademola Onibonukuta, Kirstin Braten Berg, Chris Jarrett, Manuel Delgado, Sebastian Herzfeld, Wolfram Dix and many others.

In 1994 he organised the festival "One sky, one rhythm" in Weimar. Other projects include the Indian music trio Ganpati with Tunji Beier and Zoltán Lantos, resulting in the first album "Silkroute".

Ralf´s flexibility in connecting different styles and rhythms are the result of his studies with Ramamani in classical South Indian music at the Karnataka College of Percussion in Bangalore, and of his work with oriental musicians like Mohamed Zinelabidine, Jorgos Psirakis and Michalis Klapakis.

From 1996 to 1997, he worked as musical director of the Thalia Theater in Halle, Germany, mainly composing and producing theatre music,which he continues to do freelance for theatre and film.

In 1998, he founded "The Guitar Duo" with flamenco-guitarist Maunel Delgado and they made two records and played many concerts in Europe, India and Tunisia.
In 2002, he released his own album "worldbeat" and in 2011, he released "Sin Distancia Trio", the album "Soleado"with Manuel Delgado and Ernest Martinez,.

Karthik Mani hails from a family of musicians – his father, T.A.S. Mani is a renowned percussionist of "The Karnataka College of Percussion", and his mother R. A. Ramamani is a reputed ground-breaking Carnatic vocalist who has performed all over the world and has pioneered the genre of Carnatic-jazz fusion.

Karthik has performed in various prestigious festivals in India, China, Spain, Germany, USA, Turkey, Malaysia, Morocco,UK, Bangkok,Thailand, Canada, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Indonesia and Australia to name but a few.

He has performed with musicians like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Hariharan, Dr M. Balamuralikrishna, Padmashree Dr L. Subramaniam, Padmashree Kadri Gopalnath, Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonza, Louis Banks, Padmashree Kavita Krishnamurthy, Carnatic Maestro Mandolin U. Sreenivas as well as international artists such as Kai Eckhardt, Ronan Guilfoyle, Okay Temiz, Ramesh Shotham, Mike Herting, African singer Mory Kante, Tunisian singer Dhafer Yousuf, Afro-Cuban percussionist Mokhtar Samba, Paul Shigihara, Lucas Niggli and trombonist Nils Wogram, to name a few.

Karthik has worked extensively in the field of traditional Indian dances, contemporary dance, movies, folk rock, jazz, Carnatic, Hindustani, advertisements, percussion ensembles, theatres plays, bollywood projects and many more.

He has been giving concerts throughout India as well as abroad and has performed in various international music festivals all over the world. He is the first Indian percussionist to win the Independent World Music Award for world fusion with “Lehera”.

Mykyta Sierov was born in Kiev (Ukraine) and received his first music lessons at the age of six. From 1993 to 2004, he attended the Central Special School of Music in Kiev and subsequently moved to the National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music of Ukraine.

Early awards include1st prize in the International Competition of Young performers "XXI Century Art" in 2002, Vorzel, Ukraine (solo score) and in 2005 the Grand Prix at the same competition. Even as as student he was solo oboist in the  "National Children's Opera" and later in the "Presidential Symphonic Orchestra" of the Ukraine.

He graduated in 2014 with a master's degree.
from the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar in 2007 (Prof. Matthias Bäcker).

As an orchestra musician, he played several concerts under the direction of Christian Thielemann together with students, professors of the music school and city orchestra in Weimar. He gained further experience in the classical field, in the "Kammerphilharmonie Leipzig", the "Philharmonic Orchestra Gera", the "Kammerphilharmonie Wernigerode" and at the Erfurt Opera under conductors Marek Janowski, Georg Biller and others, who were also associated with numerous guest appearances in Germany and abroad. These were partly documented by Radio Germany and the MDR.

Mykyta not only plays classical music, but also jazz and pop as well as his own compositions, with various chamber music groups. As a soloist, he gives concerts regularly in Germany and abroad.