OMA’s Jam — Thursdays at the OMAcafé

Every Thursday: a new series at the OMAcafé. OMA’s Jam.

8 pm, no entry fee


Students from the University of Music invite you to a shared jam session.
It always starts with a short opener concert — then we open the floor.

If you’ve got your instrument under your fingers: join in.
If you just want to listen: come by, hang out, enjoy the café vibe.

Every Thursday | OMAcafé
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OMA CONCERT + WORKSHOP MAKAM: Arsava / Hatipoğlu

Thursday, 19 February | Doors: 17:00 - 19:00 | Entry: €20 (including the concert)

INTRODUCTION TO TURKISH MAKAM MUSIC: THEORY AND PRACTICE
By Zeynap Ayşe Hatipoğlu

In this workshop (English/German), Hatipoğlu introduces the fundamental principles of Turkish Makam music. Participants will learn Makam through vocal and instrumental practices.
Musicians of all backgrounds and instruments are welcome!
Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu is an Istanbul-born, Berlin-based cellist, composer, and improviser. Her main musical interest is the freedom to move between genres, including Turkish makam, free improvised music, European classical music, and contemporary, electroacoustic, and experimental music.
Hatipoğlu holds a PhD in Music from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Advanced Studies of Music (2022), where she researched collaborative improvisation and the concept of play as a method of creative practice. She also holds a Master’s degree in Music Theory and Composition from the ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory, where she worked as a research and teaching assistant.
www.zeynepaysehatipoglu.com

Thursday, 19 February | Doors: 19:30 Concert: 20:00 | Entry: €15/€10

The new duo project of Zeynep Ayse Hatipoglu & Max Arsava connects musical material & practices from the axis Berlin-Istanbul. They reimagine diverse instrumental traditions from European improvisation to Makam, Berlin Echtzeitmusik to tape fragments of Turkish classical music.

Lineup:
Max Arsava: Tapes, Electronics 
Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu: Violoncello, Voice

                                                                                                           

OMA CONCERT: DUMAI DUNAI

OMA Eastern-European Concert Series
Tuesday, February 24 | Doors 19:30 Concert start: 20:00 | Entry: €5/€10/€15

Please register for the concert via: esc@othermusicacademy.eu

Slavic dub-punk missionaries Dumai Dunai have been winning the hearts of audiences all over the world since they first burst onto the scene in 2022. With members from Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Canada, the multi-lingual seven-piece combines the deep grooves of dub with the energy of punk rock, the raw ecstasy of the blasting horns of Balkan wedding brass bands, and the joys and sorrows of Ukrainian village polyphony.

Their debut album “Sometime Between Now and Never”, released in June 2024, received excellent reviews and a nomination for Global Roots Album of the Year from the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Dumai Dunai has performed across Canada and in a dozen European countries, including at Colours of Ostrava (CZ), Robmy Swoje (PL), Tallinn Music Week (EE), Pop Montreal (CA) and BLOK Toronto (CA).

Featuring past and present members of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Boogat, and Bad Uncle, Dumai Dunai exists somewhere between the underground scene of their beloved Montreal and the mountains and valleys of their Slavic homelands.

Lineup:
Natalia Telentso: Vocals
Eli Camilo: Trumpet and vocals
Julian Selody: Sax
Kevin Moquin: Guitar
Eric Dubé: Trombone
Jordan Markov: Drums
Kaloyan Mihaylov: Bass

Jazz concert


Linde Tillmanns Trio // OMA

25.02 — 20:00

no entry fee, donation recommendation 10 € or more

keys on fire.
free music with a pulse.
songs like snapshots:
a story, a colour, a momentum —
sometimes wide + meditative,
sometimes lyrical,
sometimes contained,
sometimes beautifully disjointed.
Linde’s sound: unmistakable. expressionist. fearless

Linde Tillmanns (1998) is a pianist, improviser and composer. She makes modern jazz with the personal touch and intimacy of a singer/songwriter. Always exploring, she continually searches for new musical worlds and concepts. She is attracted by both the minimalistic and the very dense.

Linde graduated from the Utrecht Conservatory on the 19th of june 2021 in Cloud Nine, TivoliVredenburg. She studied in the department of ‘music performance artist’, an education which entails finding one’s musical voice, working with other disciplines and thinking conceptually. In 2019/2020, she went on an exchange to Aalborg, Denmark to study Jazz piano.

After releasing her first EP ‘In Sight’ in 2022, Linde’s debut album, titled ‘Stillness, Chaos, Thoughts, Feelings’, was released with ZenneZ records in december 2024. The record contains both trio and sextet pieces.

 

                                                                                                           

OMA CONCERT: KAPELA KOTRA

OMA Eastern-European Concert Series
Wednesday, March 4 | Doors 19:30 Concert start: 20:00 | Entry: €5/€10/€15

Kapela Kotra is a Vilnius-based Belarusian-Australian folk trio (violin, cello, cimbal) performing traditional instrumental and vocal music from Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland, for listening and dancing. Kapela Kotra works with repertoire from early 20th century field recordings, arranging these old melodies in a manner that retains historical authenticity while presenting a fresh, vibrant interpretation.

The band’s current project is the research, arrangement and performance of Litvak music from present-day Belarus, recorded in the ethnomusicological collections of Sofia Magid, Susman Kiselgof and Ina Nazina. Kapela Kotra seeks to rediscover the string-based music of the northern Pale of Settlement; an arguably lesser-known soundscape within the wider body of Yiddish instrumental music.

Kapela Kotra is also active in Vilnius’ energetic traditional music scene, reflecting the diverse cultural history of the city. The band regularly performs at dance events, and leads workshops in regional folk dance and traditional singing.

Despite having formed only in January 2025, Kapela Kotra has already performed throughout Europe, from dance nights in Latvia to street festivals in Hungary. Kapela Kotra was Artist-in-Residence at Yiddish Summer Weimar 2025, the world's largest summer program for the study and performance of Yiddish music and culture. Within Lithuania, Kapela Kotra has performed at numerous festivals and celebrations including Skamba Skamba Kankliai, the European Day of Jewish Culture, and the Pokrov Bells International Folklore Festival.

 

Lineup:
Morgan Maruthiah (AU) - Violin
Alena Kandyba (BY) - cello
Katsiarina Hil (BY) - cimbal

                                                                                                           

GOLESLIDER

Concerts
Thursday, May 7 | 19:30 @ Häselburg (Gera)
Friday, May 8 | 19:30 @ mon ami (Weimar)
Saturday, May 9 | 19:30 @ Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt)
Sunday, May 10 | TBA @ exploratorium (Berlin)

Goleslider is a new project that combines newly-composed Yiddish songs with klezmer improvisation and live electronics.

Artistic directors Francesca Ter-Berg (cello/voice/electronics), a pioneer of combining experimental electroacoustic music with klezmer, and Daniel Kahn (multi-instrumentalist/voice), a leading Yiddish songwriter of the 21st century, explore the concept of goles, a Yiddish word that means both exile and diaspora.
The program explores many forms of “exile,” from migration and historical exclusion to cultural and linguistic ruptures. Through new songs that set existing and newly-written Yiddish poetry, Goleslider reconsiders the broad concept of goles in the context of rising nationalism.

Lineup:
Daniel Kahn (voice, accordion, piano, guitar)
Francesca Ter-Berg (cello, live electronics, voice) 
Anna Lowenstein (violin)
Malik Schilling (percussion)
Pieter Sint Nicolaas (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Rosamond van Wingerden (voice)

Music samples from Daniel Kahn & Francesca Ter-Berg