SONIQ meets Marie Daniels

Marie Daniels (vocals) Christina Fuchs (saxophone) Jarry Singla (piano) Ramesh Shotham (percussion)

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For ten years, the artist collective SONIQ has stood for musical encounters across cultural boundaries. During this time, they have initiated, developed and performed 13 very different programs. Founded by saxophonist Christina Fuchs, pianist Jarry Singla and percussionist Ramesh Shotham, SONIQ combines influences from jazz, contemporary music, improvisation, folk, electronics and sound traditions to create a joyful sound of the world's cultures.

For its anniversary, SONIQ now meets Cologne-based singer Marie Daniels, who works in the collectives hilde, PENG e.V. and The Dorf & Umland in NRW and opens up new sound spaces with her extraordinary voice and openness to improvised and experimental music. SONIQ meets Marie Daniels" creates intense musical dialogs full of surprises, energy and atmospheric beauty - far removed from genre boundaries and yet immediately accessible.

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Venue:

Stadtgarten

The first concert in the newly built Stadtgarten concert hall in the mid-1980s launched a program unlike anything Germany had seen: an independent, artistically driven concert series devoted to contemporary improvised music. It was guided neither by attendance figures nor by public subsidies, yet it guaranteed musicians minimum fees and was run on professional terms. The conditions mattered just as much: an acoustically optimized, street-level concert space offering a strong setting for audiences and performers alike. Operations were financed through the adjoining hospitality business, the Stadtgarten restaurant and beer garden, a model that drew attention well beyond Germany.

Today the Stadtgarten Köln ranks among Europe's internationally recognized venues for contemporary and improvised music. The American magazine Down Beat features it regularly in its listings; it has received Germany's federal APPLAUS venue program award several times, including "Venue of the Year" in 2016, followed by the German Jazz Prize in the same category in 2022. More than 400 events across the full spectrum of contemporary music now take place there each year. Its international standing rests above all on the high proportion of demanding, experimental programming.

A programming mission of this kind depends on reliable public support. The venue's 30th anniversary in September 2016 opened that prospect: through a partnership between the City of Cologne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, programming work is being substantially strengthened, and from 2017 onward the Stadtgarten Köln is being developed step by step into a "European Center for Jazz and Contemporary Music" – with the goal of becoming one of Europe's leading music centers.

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