8:15 PM      :        Müller - Dehnhard Quartet (Germany/India)

 
Müller - Dehnhard Quartet

 
A platform to juggle the force of traditional & contemporary jazz , fusion music – coming alive with guitar virtuoso Matthias Muller, from Germany, Tilman Dienhart ( Flute & Saxophone), from Germany & 5 string Bass - Mainak Nag Chowdhury from Kolkata.

These musicians have individually played globally across all continents , in various Festivals , Clubs & Pubs of the world. Their debut collaboration happens in - The City Of Joy.

1984-87 College of Music Sulzbach-Rosenberg Study of Classical Guitar, Ensemble and choir Conducting, Diploma awarded
1988-90 Munich Guitar Institute ( MGI )Diploma awarded
1991-92 Grove School of Music, Los Angeles, C.A., USA
Study of Jazz and Fusion with Jeff Richman, Joe Daversa and Wayne Johnson
Composing and Arranging with Dick Grove Diploma awarded
1994-95 Study of Carnatic Music in Madras, India with Veena  Rajeswari Padmanabhan
6 weeks Course at the College of Music, Hamburg  
1985-90 Numerous Concerts with classical guitar trios, duos, solo and with choir
Studio theater Munich Guitarist at Leonce and Lena
1991-92 Many Studio sessions and Recordings in Los Angeles
1993 Composer and musical Director of " Nightshift Radio Mystery "Jazz and Poetry, Lyrics By P. Eichhammer
CD Production with the Band " Ruiz Says "
1995-97 Bar music in different Hotels in Hamburg (Crown Plaza, SAS etc.)
Guitar Teacher at the Music School Lippstadt Recordings and Concerts with Edgar Nuenning (Guitar)
Composer of a String Quartet for the Radio play " The Broken Heart"
1999 CD Production AHIMSA, 1st. Ahimsa CD released in India under Media-Dreams-rec.
2002 Tour in Europe/India with AHIMSA, Concerts with Dr.L. Subramaniam in India

 
Tilmann Dehnhard

Tilmann Dehnhard studied flute and saxophone at Hochschule der Künste Berlin.
Musical collaborations with Sam Rivers, Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach,
Terumasa Hino and others.
Tilmann Dehnhard works as a freelance musician and composer. He lives in Berlin.

Mainak "Bumpy" Nag Chowdhury, a bass player, music producer from Calcutta (Kolkata), India. In the years of his professional playing in studio and live sessions, he has played various styles ranging from Latin, Jazz, Pop, Rock to World music, with some of the most sought after performers of the country from the likes of Tanmoy Bose(Pandit Ravi Shankar's tabla player's project Taaltantra),Shilajit, to Amit Chaudhuri's This is not Fusion, to his own duo pop-rock chart-buster vernacular album with Rupam(Titled "RnB"),Time Travil ,to name a few. I've been a part of the pioneering process that today is titled Bangla-band movement initiating bands like Abhilasha,Paraspathar,Shahar,4WDetcI've also been one of the founder members of the only authentic latin-jazz setups of the country like the Orient Express and Los Amigos ,and singer songwriter projects like Project Nova! even trad jazz, with Lush. presently working freelance with various artists and band in the country,including renowned rock act Krosswindz. He’s releasing some of his crazy arrangement ideas and originals with his world music project "Just Us”.

 
Sanjay Gupta

A prominent sessions jazz drummer of Kolkata.