Ketan Bhatti

Ketan Bhatti (* 1981 in New Delhi ) is a German composer , drummer and music producer of German-Indian descent .

life and work

Bhatti, who grew up in Bielefeld , learned the piano and drums as a child . He was active in the German jazz and hip-hop scene at an early age and studied jazz drums at the University of the Arts in Berlin , where he has lived since 2002. Bhatti crosses the border between different genre and cultural worlds. He moves between new , electronic and popular music and researches transcultural contemporary musical languages.

His works range from contemporary chamber music, experimental music and dance theater, stage and film music , to electronic, hip-hop-based productions, with subcultural currents and the interaction of acoustic and electronic sound design playing an essential role.

From 2010 to 2012 Bhatti was a scholarship holder of the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences of the UdK Berlin under the supervision of Daniel Ott (composition) and Gunter Gebauer (philosophy). In this context, he worked with various ensembles and with scientists on experimental, music-theatrical mixed forms of concert and scientific discourse.

As a drummer, Bhatti played in various bands such as Cyminology , who translated Persian poetry into chamber music jazz, with which he released several CDs, and the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble , which plays techno with classical instruments. With his long-standing band Formelwesen , he worked at the interface between audio, video and performance until 2011 and released an album produced by the Berlin guitarist Frank Möbus .

In 2013, Ketan Bhatti and Cymin Samawatie initiated the Divan der Continenten chamber orchestra , which is made up of instrumentalists from the Berlin Philharmonic as well as musicians from Syria , Japan , China , Israel , Lebanon , Siberia and Turkey , and which performed at the Jazzfest Berlin 2015, among others . The ensemble translates the concept of the big band into contemporary and hybrid, post-migrant forms that are characterized by cultural diversity and the breaking up of identities.

Ketan Bhatti's close collaboration with the Berlin-Icelandic ensemble Adapter led to a series of world premieres as part of the 2015 Wien Modern Festival on the subject of groove and new music.

Ketan Bhatti has been a member of the jury for the Capital Cultural Fund since 2015.

Theatrical compositions

As a composer of theater music, Ketan Bhatti and his brother Vivan Bhatti have been working regularly since 2003 for productions by the director Nuran David Calis at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , Schauspiel Köln , Thalia Theater Hamburg , and the Nibelungen Festival in Worms, among others .

Since 2009 the Bhatti brothers have been producing and composing the music for the productions of the internationally touring Berlin breakdance group Flying Steps . The joint production Flying Bach , for which they produced hip-hop arrangements of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier , was awarded the 2010 Echo Klassik Special Prize.

Ketan and Vivan Bhatti's musical theater pieces are based on collaborations with authors such as Feridun Zaimoglu or Roland Schimmelpfennig . They ask questions about integration and exclusion. B. performed at the Neukölln Opera or the joinery of the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

In the dance theater sector , Ketan Bhatti worked with the choreographers Davide Camplani ( Sasha Waltz & Guests ) for an inclusive dance theater with people with Down syndrome and with Kadir Amigo Memis for a piece about today's youth culture in socially disadvantaged areas .

Film compositions

Ketan and Vivan Bhatti made their feature film music debut in 2010 with the film music for Spring Awakening with Wilson Gonzales Ochsenknecht , followed by the Woyzeck film adaptation with Tom Schilling in 2013.

Prizes and awards

Bhatti looks back on grants and awards from the German Music Council , the Berlin Senate and the Goethe Institute . As the composer of a concert for jazz and new electronic music performed with Simon Stockhausen , Bhatti was awarded the Karl Hofer Prize in 2008. In 2017 Ketan Bhatti received a scholarship from the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul

Web links

• Web presence
• Review of the black water ( the daily newspaper )
• Divan of the Continents (website)
• Ketan Bhatti at Discogs (English)
• Ketan Bhatti in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graduate school at the Berlin University of the Arts begins. In: miz.org. German Music Information Center (MIZ), June 11, 2010, accessed on April 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Radio Arty with Ketan Bhatti. In: archiv.fluxfm.de. October 18, 2012, archived from the original on February 26, 2017 ; accessed on April 13, 2018 . 
3. ↑ rateyourmusic.com
4. ↑ Divan of the Continents / Louis Moholo-Moholo Quartet / Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet + Theo Bleckmann. In: berlinerfestspiele.de . 2015, accessed April 23, 2020.
5. ↑ wienmodern: wienmodern> Home> Event. Retrieved February 24, 2017 (Austrian German). 
6. ↑ Ketan Bhatti - Capital Culture Fund. Retrieved February 24, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Nibelungen Festival 2017
8. ↑ neukoellneroper.de ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ deutscheoperberlin.de
10. ↑ sophiensaele.com
11. ↑ hebbel-am-ufer.de
12. ↑ Ketan Bhatti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
13. ↑ Tarabya Istanbul Culture Academy - Ketan Bhatti. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 25, 2017 ; accessed on February 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.