Get ready for the inaugural weekend with 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝘀!
The Sound Trip programme is an India concert tour, a project by PART-Ensemble and Meta Arts. The ensemble will perform concerts of compositions written by four women composers from India and Germany through Female Affairs. Female Affairs is an international music development project that aims to look at gender and equity in music composition. The PART-Ensemble comprises Srijanee Banerjee on the sitar, Evelin Degen on the flute and Rie Watanabe on the percussions. The ensemble will perform compositions of Katharina Roth, Veronica Reutz Drobnic, Pavithra Chari and Noni Mouse.

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 21 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 | Saturday
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 7.𝟬𝟬 PM – 8.00 PM
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗮 Goa, 273, Nachinola, Goa – 403508
Evelin Degen, Flute

Evelin is a flutist and since 2021 director of the Essen-based PART Ensemble, which specializes in contemporary music and interdisciplinary projects. From 2011-2023 she directed the E-MEX Ensemble (Record Critics’ Award 2023 for chamber music). Concerts have taken her to the relevant festivals in various European countries (including Warsaw Autumn, Nymusikk Oslo, BEAST Birmingham, NOW Festival Essen, 8Brücken Cologne), as well as to North and South America and Asia. As a soloist, she is interested not only in the traditional repertoire but also in contemporary music, as documented by numerous premieres of pieces dedicated to her, radio recordings and CD recordings. Together with her duo partner Matthias Geuting she is working on an expansion of the repertoire for flute and organ (recently released: CD Elliptic Curves). Another focus of her work is interdisciplinary projects with representatives from dance, acting and visual arts. Evelin Degen has been teaching at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Dusseldorf since 1997, where she was awarded the title of honorary professor in 2011. She gives master classes and workshops all over the world and has repeatedly been a lecturer at the College of Music and Art Montepulciano.

Srijanee Banerjee, Sitar

Srijanee is a music and recording artist based in Kolkata, India. She is a trained Hindustani Classical Music artist trained under the Late Pandit Ravi Sen and Dr. Niladri Sen. Srijanee later joined the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in 2014 and is currently a Senior Scholar under Guru Pandit Partha Chatterjee at the same institute.
Srijanee continues to receive accolades and recognitions from festivals and platforms such as the Dover Lane Music Competition. She received the first concert prize for “Sitar Kesari”, Sangeet Piyasi, Murari Smriti Sangeet Sammelani. She was awarded national scholarships for both Junior and Senior categories by the Ministry of Culture Govt. Of India.
Her international collaborations have been with the Swar Mangesh Festival in Bangladesh (2021) to honor Sheik Mujibur Rahaman’s centenary birth celebrations. She was part of Across the Land (2023) a jazz-contemporary music incubation project produced by Meta Arts, Puy & Co (Barcelona) and supported by AECID and Embassy of Spain in India. In 2023 and 2024, she was part of the Female Affairs music composition project produced by Meta Arts (India) and PART-Ensemble (Germany).

Rie Watanabe, Drums & Percussions
Rie is a percussionist for contemporary and improvised music based in Cologne, Germany. Since 2009, she has worked as a freelance artist in the field of contemporary and improvised music with various ensembles of new music and composers such as Musikfabrik, Ensemble Resonanz, Nicolaus A. Huber, Enno Poppe, Annesley Black, and Oxana Omelchuk. Watanabe is a member of Duo Vertige with Mirjam Schröder and DEHIO, an ensemble for contemporary music from North Rhine-Westphalia, PART-Ensemble.
In 2014, she initiated the “TRAVEL MUSICA” project and the “Honda Yuya Archive” to explore different ways of updating and making available the musical heritage of Japanese composer Yuya Honda and his music in general.

The project is made possible entirely by the International Co-production Fund, Goethe-Institut, Kunststiftung NRW, NRW Kultursecretariat, City of Essen, Arthshila, Rajasthan International Center, Bengal Biennale, Embassy of Spain in India and the Instituto Cervantes.