Apart from spontaneous JAM sessions, Vincent Peirani's quintet “Living Being” was the largest eastPLUGGED® band to date.

This pole position is now taken by Norwegian pianist Kjetil Mulelid, who expanded his already excellent quintet with two great musicians to a septet: Trygve Seim will play the second saxophone alongside Sissel Vera Pettersen and trumpeter Mathias Eick will complete the wind trio. Together with percussion [Lars Horntveth], bass [Bardur Reinert Poulsen] and drums [Andreas Winther], all this results in a maximum Norwegian sound for the septet's German premiere. The AGOJA project comprises both melodic and rhythmic compositions by Kejtil, in which the Norwegian roots can be identified at their best, and perhaps you will become inspired by this music to plan your next trip to this wonderful country with its more than 30,000 kilometres of coastline.

40€/pp [incl. drink]

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Changes in line-up possible. Exchange and return of reserved seats excluded.

To avoid rubbish, we do not use paper tickets. Access just by name as booked. Free choice of seats.

NO BOX OFFICE

The concert is fully booked. However, you are welcome to add your name to the waiting list below. If any seats become available, you will be notified. Please refrain from making individual enquiries.

The rumors are no longer rumors: Randy Brecker, 5-time Grammy winner, plays at eastPLUGGED®!

SIMON OSLENDER, just 28 years old, has been shaking up the music scene in recent years as a pianist, organist, keyboarder and composer. After his debut in Wolfgang Haffner´s band, his own music is becoming increasingly influential. He tours with his own trio, with Nils Landgren, Steve Gadd, Thomas Quasthoff, Bill Evans, Gregory Porter and many others across the continents.

It's brilliant that, in addition to his performances in international concert halls, he is coming back to Ratingen on 3 June for his third eastPLUGGED® concert, and the fact that this time he is bringing the legendary US trumpeter RANDY BRECKER with him is even sensational.

To kick off their European tour, the quartet, which includes Claus Fischer on bass and Jérôme Cardynaals on drums, will present a completely new and exciting programme, including many pieces exclusively composed by Simon for this project.

You can look forward to another unique eastPLUGGED® concert.

40€/p (incl. drink)

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Changes in line-up possible. Exchange and return of reserved seats excluded.

To avoid rubbish, we do not use paper tickets. Access just by name as booked. Free choice of seats.

NO BOX OFFICE

Due to high demand, there is currently a waiting list, which you are welcome to join. If seats become available, you will receive a message. Please refrain from making individual enquiries.

"Let's have a nice evening" („Da woll´n wir uns mal ´nen schönen Abend machen“)

Sunday, 30 August 2026, is the perfect opportunity to do that. Jürgen Becker, creator of this slogan, founder and 28-year presenter of the German tv-show ‘Mitternachtsspitzen, will present his current programme ‘DIE URSACHE LIEGT IN DER ZUKUNFT’ at the Friedenskirche in Ratingen. He will look to the future with his own sense of humour, based on his observations of everyday madness and in the tradition of Karl Valentin (‘The future used to be better too’).

As is customary at eastPLUGGED® events, music plays a major role, this time performed by Vladyslav Sendecki, long-time pianist of the NDR Big Band, who will host the evening together with Jürgen Becker.

Cabaret with words and music, satirical and improvisational – it promises to become an entertaining and exciting evening.

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Changes in line-up possible. Exchange and return of reserved seats excluded.

To avoid rubbish, we do not use paper tickets. Access just by name as booked. Free choice of seats.

NO BOX OFFICE

Reservations soon and only via this website.

Amazing!:

The Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra is performing in the amazing acoustic space of the Friedenskirche together with the band of Berlin trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky. It will be a great evening of music when piano, trumpet and drums unite with the orchestra's string instruments.

The Rheinische Post wrote: "What the Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra has to offer is impressive almost anywhere in the world. Such precision in string arrangements is rarely heard. It is even rarer for a large orchestra to play with such balance of timbres, even in the wildest moments." This fits perfectly with our eastPLUGGED® concept.

Look forward to the first eastPLUGGED® concert with orchestral accompaniment . €40/person including drink.

This concert is also intended to express our solidarity with the cultural creators in Ukraine, who have been severely restricted for years in practicing their profession. We further do hope that the war has come to an end by November at the latest

If you are interested in this concert, you can register your name and eMail online hereinafter and you will automatically receive an email message when online reservation starts.