Fee: 18€ / 15€ (disc.) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in presale: HERE!  www.ewerk-freiburg.de or BZ Karten-Service

The 20th Tamburi Mundi Festival Opens!

Murat Coşkun and Beatriz Picas are united by their great passion for the music that emerges between worlds and styles. What began two years ago at Tamburi Mundi as a first musical encounter has developed steadily and has now matured into a captivating duo program. 

Picas, whose voice immediately touches the listener with its unique timbre, forges her own path in the combination of cello and vocals. Coşkun, with masterful command of his instruments , enters into the shared music with what seems like pure intuition, creating a seamless connection.

This rare combination of world percussion, cello, and voice transforms into a breathtaking sound experience — singing through the cello, playing with the voice, and coaxing both laughter and tears from the percussion.

The lightness and freshness of their duo program clearly stem from an intensive musical exchange, where rhythmic precision effortlessly meets imaginative phrasing and intuitively absorbed impulses. Their Portuguese and Turkish roots resonate as a vibrant foundation for their shared compositions, evoking at times the melancholy of the sea and the exuberance of the mountains, both enriched with a soulful depth.

Murat Coşkun: Frame Drums, Percussion, Hang Drum, Voice
Beatriz Picas: Cello, Voice
with guests!

Fee: 12€ / 8€ (disc.) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal
Tickets in Presale:  HERE!  www.ewerk-freiburg.de or BZ Karten-Service

The federal youth percussion ensemble “bundesbeat” is back on tour! The group of top young percussionists (all of them prizewinners of “Jugend Musiziert”) was founded 14 years ago under the direction of Johannes Fischer. After a long break, the young ensemble was revived by Percussion Creativ e.V. and is inspiring us again: after a concert at the Cologne University of Music, “bundesbeat” is coming to the Tamburi Mundi Festival in Freiburg. The tour then continues to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in Schwerin.

Their new program is based on the French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2025. This has resulted in interesting and unusual pieces for percussion.

Tamburi Mundi stands for exchange and interaction and so the young talents will meet the Polish multi-percussionist Michał Pȩkosz, the tajik master drummer Khayrullo Dadoboev and the young world percussionist Yaschar Coşkun at the festival, and together they will build a musical bridge between the classical percussion repertoire and frame drums.

Ensemble „bundesbeat“:
Charlotte Kawohl, Katharina Stokklauser, Marielena Riek, Hanna Klara Putzke, Luise Magdalena Böhm, Vicent Etienne Baldauf, Maximilian Wallrap, Joshua Wössner, Hendrik Späth, Jaron Seyfarth, Lennart Pollmer, Taneli Rauhalammi
Director: Prof. Lukas Böhm

Michał Pȩkosz - frame drums, percussion
Khayrullo Dadoboev - doira, frame drum
Yaschar Coşkun - frame drums

Fee: 18€ / 15€ (disc) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in presale:   www.ewerk-freiburg.de or BZ Karten-Service

Sitartronic-Pekoslavsky is a unique duo that blends the sound of the traditional Indian
sitar with the handpan. The duo consists of Tomasz Orszulak (sitar, electric guitar) and
Michał Pękosz (handpans, frame drums). In May 2024, they released their first joint album titled “Ragas and Tales”.
Their main source of inspiration lies in classical Indian ragas, whose timeless beauty hasthe power to transport listeners to different places and eras, sparking the creation of rich,multi-layered musical stories. At the same time, the musicians describe their style asFuture Etno — a genre where Indian and ethnic influences, trance-like rhythms, andspacious electronics intertwine with ambient and jazz.

Michał Pękosz: Handpans, Frame Drums
Tomasz Orszulak: Sitar, E-Guitar

Fee: €18 / €15 (disc) / €5 (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in Presale: HERE!  www.ewerk-freiburg.de or BZ Karten-Service

Arezoo Rezvani: Santur (persian string instrument), Daf, Vocals
Liron Meyuhas: Handpan, Frame Drum, Percussion, Vocals

Two musicians go their own way...

 “Our story began in the summer of 2019 ... at the Tamburi Mundi Festival. We were both invited to teach our traditional music and perform on stage. It's a “typical” Tamburi Mundi story, because we met without knowing each other beforehand: We played together and immediately felt a deep connection, both musically and personally.”

They have remained in contact over the years and last year, out of a strong inner impulse, they decided to pick up the musical threads again and weave a joint program: Sound of the Earth, traditional Persian music meets music from the Mediterranean region.

Arezoo Rezvani comes from Isfahan (Iran) and discovered the Persian string instrument santur as a young woman. She won prizes, played in the “Scheyda” orchestra under the direction of Iranian master musician Mohammadreza Lotfi and conducted the women's orchestra in Isfahan. She left Iran in 2016 so that she could perform in public.
Rezvani is no stranger to Freiburg. Her expressive santoor playing is moving, she uses wooden mallets to elicit flowing melodies and percussive patterns from her instrument and finds her audience for her painfully beautiful, highly professional string playing.

Liron Meyuhas comes from Jaffa, Israel, and studied rhythm in West Africa, Jazz in Italy, music education in Tel Aviv and Arabic drumming in Egypt. Meyuhas has been performing her music projects for many years and collaborates with various musicians from the USA, Lebanon, Europe and Israel.

She composes music for dance performances and teaches percussion and handpan workshops worldwide.  In her current musical projects, Meyuhas is committed to peace in the Middle East with a message of humanity and spirituality.

The duo program of the two musicians is a matter close to their hearts: a lively exchange of stories, rhythm, sound and culture. They present their own compositions and traditional pieces and find many things in common.

Their project includes traditional Persian music, played with the Persian instruments santur and daf, as well as an original Hebrew composition, played with handpan and world percussion. They also include their own arrangements and compositions and the musicians' voices can be heard singing in Hebrew, Persian and English.

We are delighted about the premiere at this year's Tamburi Mundi Festival!

A rhythmic-musical interactive theater experience with "Die Traumausstatter"
Fee: €12 (Adults) / €7 (Children, ages 3+)
Venue: E-Werk, Freiburg

Tickets: Directly at the box office on the day of the event!
Reservation via email:  ingrid.kloos@dietraumausstatter.de

Susanne Lotz: Narration, Violin, Accordion
Ingrid Kloos: Percussion, Steel Drum
Roland Sproll: Piano

Tamburi Mundi guest musician: Kasia Kadłubowska (vibraphone, percussion)

Fee: 5€ (standard price)
Venue: E-Werk, Kammertheater
Tickets: Directly at the box office on the day of the event!

The four-year Tamburi Mundi FDA training program comes to an end with a big final concert. A very creative and colorful concert evening awaits us, because it's all about: Frame drumming! But not “only”, because the participants bring their own musical “background” and ideas with them. So sometimes it sounds jazzy, sometimes very classical, sometimes oriental, sometimes renaissance, sometimes meditative, sometimes funky and sometimes simply beautiful! You can see her own compositions for voice, cello, piano, violin, Guitarra Portuguesa, accordion and of course for a wide variety of frame drums.

With
Gudrun Herold - Frame Drum, Vocals
Anka Hirsch - Cello, Frame Drum,Vocals
Adrian Ils - Guitar, Frame Drum,Vocals
Christoph Nachtigall - Frame Drum, Vocals
Katrin Nitsche - Frame Drum, Vocals
Nataya Pipatpan - Frame Drum,Vocals
Christina Troeger - Violin, Frame Drum, Vocals
Thomas Wenk - Piano, Frame Drum,Vocals

Fee: 22€ / 19€ (disc) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in presale:  HERE!  www.ewerk-freiburg.de or BZ Karten-Service

The title of this Tamburi Mundi project describes what it is all about: dance and music that draws on the North African-Andalusian musical tradition and combines it with the flamenco art of Andalusia. This cultural region offers a wealth of musical impulses and opens up wide artistic freedoms. The rhythms of Andalucia form an essential interface for the evening: traditional and classical forms alternate with a creative approach to new ideas.

For this special project, three remarkable artists will come together in Freiburg to create this unique evening for the Tamburi Mundi Festival:

Bettina Castaño (flamenco artist from Seville) has already impressed Tamburi Mundi audiences many times with her dancing skills, whether with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, performing alongside master percussionist Sukkanya Ramgopal from India, or engaging in an intimate musical dialogue with Murat Coşkun.

Salim Beltitane (Algerian percussionist from Strasbourg) is well-known at Tamburi Mundi from many concerts, at least when it comes to the theme of “North Africa”. The Algerian specializes in North African rhythms and is a guest at many festivals around the world.

Juana Larreta (percussionist from Granada/Spain) is in Freiburg for the first time. Born in Argentina, she used to dance flamenco herself before 'switching sides' to focus on percussion in recent years. However, her flamenco background gives her playing a distinctive and unique touch..

Other guests include the Moroccan singer and violinist Taha Alami, Espina (flamenco guitar) and Murat Coskun on the frame drums.

With
Bettina Castaño: Flamenco Dance, Palmas, Percussion
Salim Beltitane: North-African Percussion
Juana Larreta: Frame Drums, Darbouka

Special Guests:
Taha Alami: Kamānja (North-African Violine), Vocals
El Espina: Flamenco Guitar
Murat Coskun: Frame Drums

Live Percussion on the Small Stage
Special guests: Ensemble Variabile (Musikschule Freiburg)
Venue: E-Werk, Foyer
Free entrance!

Fee: 12€ / 8€ (disc.) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in presale: HERE!   www.ewerk-freiburg.de or BZ Ticket Service

If you want to experience a crazy frame drum performance, you shouldn't miss Takashi Tajima's appearance! He is one of the world's most innovative frame drummers and is probably the most important and dazzling figure in the “frame drum world” of Asia.
For years, he has focused his work on the different frame drums of the world and has designed and built many new instruments himself.
Takashi Tajima, who recently published a book on “Frame Drums of the World”, has organized the world's largest frame drum exhibition in Japan and runs a frame drum festival there.
His concert at Tamburi Mundi is exclusively the only one in Europe, a special gift for the 20th anniversary! Not only because of his creative instruments and his special playing technique - it is also the multi-instrumentalist's very own playful and humorous musical world that breaks musical boundaries.

Takashi Tajima: Frame drums, percussion

Fee: 18€ / 15€ (disc.) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in pre-sale:  HERE!  www.ewerk-freiburg.de  or BZ-Kartenservice

The Norwegian percussion ensemble SISU and singer and harpist Øyonn Groven Myhren present their latest concert program, Vǫluspá, in Freiburg: A musical adaptation of a 9th century saga based on the Codex Regius, in which the old Norwegian frame drum plays an important role.

“Volva in Vǫluspá knows more than most. It was created before the world was created. She has experienced everything. She can see further than the furthest - far beyond Armageddon (Ragnarök).”

Vǫluspá was created shortly before the year 1000 - towards the end of the Viking Age. The oldest known version is performed, without omissions, without additions, without changes and in Old Norwegian. The performance uses a traditional Norwegian singing narrative style, with room for melodic fantasies and a lot of “here and now”.

The instrumentation is a mixture of instruments that were in use in the Viking Age and sound sources that were already to be found back then. Sounds such as “dripping ice”, “rustling leaves”, “birdsong” and “clinking coins” are used. And last but not least, the bell rod appears in the role of Odin...

Vǫluspá will be performed in the original language.

We are looking forward to this very special musical experience!

The production was made possible by funding from the “Norwegian Culture Fund and Fund for Performing Artists”.

Musik: Øyonn Groven Myhren
Stage Design: Tomas Nilsson

Øyonn Groven Myhren: Harp, Vocals
Tomas Nilsson (SISU): Percussion, Sound
Bjørn Skansen (SISU): Percussion, Sound

Fee: 8€ / 5€ (disc.)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in presale: office@tamburimundi.com

BEaT, the innovative solo project of Italian master percussionist Andrea Piccioni, is an exciting fusion of tradition and innovation. The full sound of the frame drums, the unmistakable tones of the scacciapensieri (jew's harp) and haunting vocals merge with state-of-the-art electronics and effects. The result is an impressive listening experience that transcends traditional musical boundaries.
In BEaT, Andrea uses instruments such as tamburello, riqq, bendir, marranzano, doromb, ribeba and handpan, which he seamlessly combines with modern electronic devices. In the dynamic interplay between acoustic and electronic elements, he creates an almost timeless sound.

Andrea Piccioni:  
Handpan, jew's harp, tamburello, frame drums, electronics, voice

Fee: 12€ / 8€ (disc.) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in presale: HERE! / www.ewerk-freiburg.de

Which rhythm suits me? Which groove goes through and through? The Drum-O-Mat doesn't give any tips, but lets you jump into the pleasure of experiencing passionate musicians live at work!
“Markus & Marcy” are not only permanent members of the Irish folk-punk band Restless Feet, but as a duo they create a rousing atmosphere with traditional Irish folk classics, wild jigs & reels and their own songs with just the right amount of pub charm! They are joined by percussion virtuoso Max Gerwien on the Irish bodhrán.
Khayrullo Dadoboev leaves no doubt that he masters his Tajik drums both artistically and technically with great musicality. Belgian percussionist Robbe Kieckens is a guest at Tamburi Mundi for the first time and arouses curiosity about Arabic-African rhythm combinations. Youssef Laktina with Syrian roots shines on the Arabic frame drum riqq and Francesco Magarò is a maestro who combines tamburello with South Indian solkattu and various frame drums.
Not decided yet? Then just be there!

- Khayrullo Dadoboev: Doyra, Frame Drum
- Robbe Kieckens: Frame Drum
- Youssef Laktina: Riqq, Percussion
- Francesco Magarò: Frame Drum
- Markus & Marcy - Irish Folk Duo Restless Feet
Markus Schillberg: Guitar, Vocals
Marcel Bühler: Violin, Backing Vocals
feat. Max Gerwien: Bodhrán
And other guests...

Live Acts, dance and drum sessions ...
Frame drums can be borrowed!

Venue: E-Werk, Foyer
Free entrance!

Ceremony of this year's award for young musicians, Frame Drum Award 2025, to the Spanish percussionist ANA NICOLÁS DE CABO.
With live percussion!

Venue: E-Werk, Foyer, free entrance!

Fee: 22€ / 19€ (disc.) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in pre-sale:  HERE!   www.ewerk-freiburg.de  or BZ-Kartenservice 

The combination of frame drums and voice has a magic all of its own.
Six international musicians take to the E-Werk stage and fill the evening's theme with their voices and musical stories:
Kasia Kadłubowska from Poland with classical percussion training and a great love of frame drum music. Sara Fotros, Iranian musician from London, with powerful percussion on the Persian daf. Emanuela Lodato, Sicilian musician in Belgium with a rousing stage presence. Gesine Bänfer from Freiburg, at home in early music with “wind and strings”. Isabel Martín from Spain traces the roots of Mediterranean musical cultures with her singing and the Iberian frame drum Pandero Cuadrado. Negar Bouban, Persian singer and oud virtuoso, whose songs bear witness to an ancient history.

A concert evening that will tell of a personal view of the frame drum and weave threads. Six musicians from different musical cultures will each bring something special from their own music, search for and find points of contact and celebrate “Drums and Voices” with us.

Kasia Kadlubowska: Rahmentrommel, Percussion, Stimme
Isabel Martín: Pandero Cuadrado, Rahmentrommel, Stimme
Emanuela Lodato: Tamburello, Tammorra, Stimme
Negar Bouban: Oud, Stimme
Gesine Bänfer: Gitarre, Flöten, Stimme
Sara Fotros: Persische Daf

Live Percussion on the Small Stage
Special guests: Percussion ensemble "Frame Drums London" (director: Murat Sığırcı)

Venue: E-Werk, Foyer
Free entrance!

Fee: 18€ / 15€ (disc.) / 5€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets in pre-sale: HERE!  www.ewerk-freiburg.de or BZ Karten-Service

P.O.P. Power of Percussion, for the second time!
Percusiano Fusion - a duo that packs a punch! Other bands and musicians from the Popakademie Mannheim's “Global Music Study Program”, plus powerful and witty trio percussion and, as the brilliant final act, the “Maghreb Folk Dance Beats” project by Algerian musician Salim Beltitane together with Tamburi Mundi frame drum guests!

After last year's enthusiastically received premiere, “P.O.P.” is back with a chilled, danceable and exciting rhythm: Percussion for listening, dancing, marveling, switching off, smiling, drifting off...

This evening is all about young music:
Percusiano Fusion: A musical spark when piano meets percussion, played by two exceptional young talents. Max Gerwien and Ilja Ruf have more in common than their time studying together in Mannheim. Their congenial duo with clarinet, piano and percussion promises a creative and captivating program! Two years ago, they were guests at Tamburi Mundi for the first time as a duo and swept everyone off their feet. We are eagerly waiting to hear them again!
Ilja Ruf: piano, clarinet
Max Gerwien: frame dum, percussion

Mariam Hail (oud and Arabic vocals) and Youssef Laktina (riqq, percussion) perform sensitive and delicate music together.

Duo Yaschar Coşkun & Azad Ҫiçek feat. Şeyda Aktaş and Jordi Doben
The duo reinterprets traditional Turkish and Kurdish pieces with bağlama and percussion. Special guests include multi-instrumentalist Şeyda Aktaş with her voice and various oriental instruments and percussionist Jordi Doben.
Yaschar Coşkun: frame drum, percussion
Azad Çiçek: Bağlama, Tanbur, Vocals
Şeyda Aktaş: Bağlama, Kaval, Duduk, Vocals
Jordi Doben: Drum set, frame drum, percussion

Salim Beltitane & “Maghreb-Folk-Dance Beats”
As the brilliant final act of the evening, the stage belongs to Algerian musician Salim Beltitane and his project ensemble “Maghreb-Folk-Dance Beats”.

This event is supported by BKM and Initiative Musik.

Live Percussion on the Small Stage

Venue: E-Werk, Foyer
Free entrance!

Fee: 26€ / 12€ (disc.) / 10€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Tickets presale:  HERE!  www.ewerk-freiburg.de or BZ Karten-Service

This is the 20th time we have had the pleasure of announcing this special evening at the Tamburi Mundi Festival: The Tamburi Mundi Special “Gala”, at which the festival and (almost) all participants present themselves, is now a firm tradition and the heart of the festival. An evening of percussion that could hardly be more musically contrasting, more colorful or more diverse. An evening on which the most diverse facets of the frame drum world come together: Drummers from Japan, Spain, Tajikistan, Italy, Ukraine, Poland, Belgium, Algeria, Turkey, Iran, Israel, the USA and Germany bring their rhythms and compositions with them.
The music of the evening is created over the course of the festival week. They present their own music to each other and get to know each other's music. This requires a great deal of openness and a willingness to embrace the new and the different. And last but not least, spontaneity and great improvisational skills, when musicians join in unplanned at the last minute... This really gets the hall and the festival grooving and is precisely what makes this evening so lively, so unique and also so unpredictable. Pulsating liveliness and joy that must not be lost, especially in this days and times!

The evening and the atmosphere are hard to put into words, but the only thing that can be said for sure is that there will be more musicians on stage than originally announced: There will be more musicians on stage than originally announced here. It's best to come to the concert and experience this evening for yourself!

Musical conception and direction: Murat Coskun

With
Glen Velez - Frame Drums
Andrea Piccioni - Tamburello, Frame Drums
Khayrullo Dadoboev - Doira, Percussion
Kasia Kadłubowska - Percussion
Emanuela Lodato - Tamburello, Vocals
Robbe Kieckens - Frame Drum, Percussion
Isabel Martín - Pandeiro Cuadrado, Vocals
Juana Larreta - Frame Drum, Darbouka
Takashi Tajima - Frame Drum, Percussion
Sara Fotros - Daf (Persian Frame Drum)
Michał Pękosz - Frame Drum, Percussion
Salim Beltitane - North-African Percussion
Lorenzo D`Erasmo - Frame Drum, Percussion
Francesco Magarò - Tamburello, Frame Drums, Vocals
Denys Vasyliev - Frame Drum
Max Gerwien - Congas, Percussion
Valentin de Montmollin - Frame Drums
Yaschar Coskun - Frame Drums, Percussion
…and more guests!

Live Percussion on the Small Stage

Venue: E-Werk, Foyer
Free entrance!

Fee: 26€ / 12€ (disc.) / 10€ (Student Ticket)
Venue: E-Werk, Saal

Reserve tickets in advance: office@tamburimundi.com

Welcome to the world of dreams!
In the state between wakefulness and sleep, the music of the last festival evening takes us to forgotten places, déjà-vus, absurdities, fears, longings and a world in which the laws of logic are turned upside down.

This complexity and contradiction that we find in our dreams is reflected in the evening's repertoire: the premiere of a piece by US percussionist and pioneer of modern frame drumming Glen Velez “Searching for a forgotten Place”, a world premiere „Cheeel Chae – Between layers of Dreams” by Murat Coskun and other pieces by, among others, Komitas Vardapet, Edvard Grieg, Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Marina Baranova, Gürkan Balkan and Annette Maye - as arrangements and compositions for string orchestra and frame drums or percussion.

The 20th Tamburi Mundi Festival will come to a brilliant conclusion with the Freiburg string orchestra Camerata Academica and a large line-up of excellent musicians on oud, harp, clarinets, accordion and frame drums!
We will not be able to capture the moment when the 20th festival comes to an end, it will vanish like a dream. Perhaps the taste, a sound and a small inkling will remain...

With:
String Orchestra Camerata Academica Freiburg
 

Solists:
Annette Maye - clarinets
Negar Bouban - oud, vocals
Doesjka van der Linden - harp
Vincent Noirent - double bass
Volker Rausenberger - accordion

Murat Coşkun, Michal Pȩkosz, Kasia Kadłubowska, Max Gerwien, Yaschar Coşkun -
percussion, frae drum, vocals

Special Guest: Glen Velez - frame drums, percussion 

Musical conception and direction: Murat Coskun