Voice and vibraphone: atmospheric sound paintings and dreamscapes, inspired by poems by various authors. Supported by the JazzStiftung München; part of the Unheard series.

UNHEARD: Kateryna Kravchenko & Arthur Clees Duo

Einstein Kultur

The Lucky Punch Comedy Club brings the city's best comedians to the Einstein Kultur in Haidhausen. At our mixed shows, 4-5 comedians take the stage and perform their strongest material! The lineups are usually a surprise, but whether they're well-known stars or handpicked newcomers, expect a super funny and authentic stand-up comedy show. Doors open 30 minutes before showtime. The show runs about 2 hours, including intermission. Free seating.

Lucky Punch Comedy Mixed Show

Tango workshops (WP9 – The 4 Elements, WP10 – Playing with Sacadas) followed by El Milongón München and a live show with Nansy Louzan & Carlos Paredes.

Tango Workshop inkl. Milonga

Halle 02 | Halle 03

Comedy by Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Presented by Heiglhoftheater.

Don't Pay!

Heiglhoftheater

As diverse as the talents we support is the music of this year's benefit evening. Seven outstanding young musicians present their artistry on soprano, piano, cello, clarinet and trumpet. The program moves from Handel through the Romantic sound world of Brahms and Schubert to Strauss and Gershwin. A dazzling highlight is Leonard Bernstein's virtuosic coloratura aria "Glitter and Be Gay."

MUSIC THAT MOVES - 7 EXCEPTIONAL TALENTS – 2026 Benefit Concert of the Norbert Janssen Foundation

Double concert as part of the Swing Manouche meets Gypsy Jazz Days at Einstein Kultur.

Swing Manouche meets Gypsy Jazz Days: Sébastien Giniaux & Joris Visquenel // Aurore Voilqué Trio

A networking evening for young Irish students and professionals in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, with free professional headshots for attendees.

Professional Headshots and Networking Evening

Hoamgeh-Suite — Hoagartn with folk music, contemporary composition and literary miniatures, performed by ensemble aDevantgarde under Johannes X. Schachtner.

The New Hoagartn

Schumann's song cycle "Frauenliebe und -leben", a charged dialogue between Romanticism and the present. The trio reinterprets the cycle, set to texts by Adelbert von Chamisso, in a timeless way, with arrangements for voice, hammered dulcimer and zither, improvised intermezzi, contemporary pieces by Munich composers, and a new work by Alexander F. Hooper with live electronics.

Dream of One's Own Days

We're celebrating our 7th anniversary at Einstein Kultur! We invite you to share this milestone with us on stage: we'll look back on seven years of shared stories, experiments and unforgettable moments, as we open the next chapter of our history. We'll be joined by international artist Diego Ingold (Spain), a leading figure in improvisation and physical theatre, who will enrich the show with his visual poetics and physical expressiveness.

Improfest – Impro Experience

By candlelight, well-known French and French-language melodies by Édith Piaf, Joe Dassin, Céline Dion, Indila and other artists are performed in exclusive arrangements for string orchestra.

French Music by Candlelight in Munich

Theater in der Au

Live composition for image, sound and body. German-French project by Manuela Hartel (media art, performance) and Alexandre Dupeyron (photography, art), with Gunnar Geisse, Verena Marisa, György Kurtág jr. and Chris Martineau. A multimedia live composition in which photography, performance, multimedia and music merge.

SCORE OF THE VISIBLE - PARTITION DU VISIBLE Live Composition for Image, Sound and Body

Lucky Punch Comedy Mixed Show: 4-5 comedians performing their strongest material in a stand-up comedy show. Approx. 2 hours incl. intermission. Free seating.

Lucky Punch

Bassist Susi Lotter met the members of her quintet while studying at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. Years of playing together and living together built a familiarity that can also be heard in the music of this band. Effortlessly, they move through the full range of emotions in original compositions that are as exciting as they are accessible. There are grooves bursting with joie de vivre and a love of playing, but also passages carried by a moving melancholy.

UNHEARD: Susi Lotter Quintet

Afro-German Young Talent: a creative theater project for children and young people with acting, dance, singing, rap and movement. Theme: Journey – a voyage to oneself.

Younique Kids – Stage for Diversity

Seven friends gather for dinner and take on a game: all cell phones go on the table, and for the rest of the evening every message is shared with the group and every call is put on speaker. Will the couples present pass this test of trust? Will the friendships survive the evening?

More than one secret comes to light, and relationships are put to the test.

This daring challenge turns out to be a fast-paced comedy that shines a light on stereotypical gender roles and gets long-married couples laughing.

The Perfect Secret

The duo Percusiano, featuring Ilja Ruf (piano and clarinet) and Max Gerwien (percussion), presents percussion instruments, rhythms from various cultures, and a distinctive treatment of the piano. Part of the Unheard series, curated by Unterfahrt and mucjazz e.V. in collaboration with the Münchner JazzStiftung.

Unheard: Percusiano

Improvised music concert. Izumi Kimura (piano), Barry Guy (bass), Gerry Hemingway (drums & vibraphone) performing as a trio with extended techniques and free improvisation.

Izumi Kimura Trio with Barry Guy, Gerry Hemingway

Improvisation duo of Camila Nebbia (tenor saxophone) and Chris Corsano (drums).

Camila Nebbia & Chris Corsano Improvisation Duo

The young sextet Sounddrift purposefully drifts between different sonic ideals of modern fusion jazz. Supported by the JazzStiftung München; part of the UNHEARD series.

UNHEARD: Sounddrift

Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda — improvisation duo performing a hybrid of classical, contemporary, progressive rock and jazz rock.

Yoshida & Takeda

Swing Manouche concert featuring Eva sur Seine and Harry Diplock Quartet, blending French chanson, swing and jazz manouche. Supported by the Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München.

Swing Manouche: Eva sur Seine & Harry Diplock Quartet

As part of the 2026 Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert (German National Youth Music Competition), Ju[mb]le, the Youth Ensemble for New Music Bavaria, presents a program of approximately one hour featuring music from the late 20th and 21st centuries. Performed by a selected ensemble of former and current Ju[mb]le members, the program aims to spark curiosity and invite listeners to explore the often still unfamiliar paths of new music.

SEHNSUCHT: VON WALZERN UND ZAHNBÜRSTEN

Evening of conversation with Irish novelist and journalist Audrey Magee, funded by the Consulate General of Ireland, Munich.

An Evening with Audrey Magee

On Saturday, April 25, at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., Munich's multicultural English-Speaking Music Ensembles (ESME) invite you to their annual Spring Showcase. With a varied concert program, the ensembles attune you to the season and bring the new season to life. Musicians from ESME Singers, ESME Orchestra and Resident Alien Big Band present a wide stylistic range, from classical and jazz to folk and pop.

The ESME Spring Showcase

Hemisphere – Johansson, Jarret, von Martens. Music deeply connected to nature, unfolding in constant motion and change; improvisation, free jazz and contemporary music.

Hemisphere

Nöel Coward's "Hay Fever", a comedy of bad manners, presented by Entity Theatre e.V. Retired actress Judith Bliss, her author husband David and their spoilt children Simon and Sorel each invite a guest for the weekend without telling one another, leading to misunderstood flirtations and party games.

Hay Fever

Unheard series concert featuring Swedish jazz vocalist Irma Neumüller with David Weissglas (piano), Lena Lorberg (double bass) and Lenny Rehm (drums), supported by the JazzStiftung München.

Unheard: Irma Neumüller

Gypsy Swing trio concert featuring Joscho Stephan (solo guitar), Raffael Müller (rhythm guitar) and Julia Hornung (double bass), presenting new songs from their joint album. Supported by the Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München.

Swing Manouche: Joscho Stephan Munich Connection

Improvisational concert by pianist Eli Wallace, bassist Pablo Vazquez and drummer Vasco Trilla, funded by the Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München and the APPLAUS-AWARD of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Wallace, Vazquez, Trilla

Light, shadow and the sounds in between: texts by and about the Hungarian writer Sándor Márai – excerpts from his diaries, reflections and episodes from his moving biography.

Sándor Márai – Reading with Music

Contemporary jazz. The Pablo Struff Trio (Pablo Struff, piano; Ida Koch, double bass; Jakob Marsmann, drums) presents as part of the Unheard series, supported by the JazzStiftung München and curated by Unterfahrt and mucjazz e.V.

Unheard: Pablo Struff Trio

Feminist performance and discussion evening with the interactive workshop FRAU* (Kelly Cavalcanti) and the political dance performance fem:me by DIPHTHONG.art e.V., followed by a moderated discussion. Funded by the Social Welfare Department of the State Capital of Munich.

Fem:me – A Political Dance Performance

Gypsy Swing (Jazz Manouche) concert featuring guitarist Adrien Moignard with bassist Julia Hornung and rhythm guitarist Giangiacomo Rosso.

Swing Manouche: Adrien Moignard Trio

Initiated by the Graz-based pianist Elisabeth Harnik back in 2019, the first European tours in 2020 and 2021 were put on hold by the pandemic. In May 2022 the time had finally come, and the result could be heard on an Aerophonic CD in early 2023.

Earscratcher

Duo performance by Phil Minton and Carl Ludwig Hübsch exploring breath and voice as sound sources, with trumpet and tuba, in free improvisation.

Metal Breath

One life, half a life. A person stands at the midpoint of their life, looking both forward and back. A woman of the affluent Western society in 2025 is embodied by three performers: her present-day self, her earlier self, and her masculine aspects.

Midpoint!

Everything makes noise, everything generates racket - a fascinating spectacle! The performance captivates above all through its flawless musicality. There are no repetitions, no licks, no routines. From the scraping, scratching and tearing, underscored by a drum, emerges an unwavering energy with a deeply breathing drone.

Otomo Yoshihide * Emilie Skrijelj * Tom Malmendier

Cash, Rare – and Gone!

Performance followed by a milonga. A musical and choreographic exploration of the various forms of tango.

FRAGMENTANGO

A solo piano series of Einstein Kultur. Shuteen Erdenebaatar presents new solo piano pieces and works from a recently released duo album with bassist and multi-instrumentalist Nils Kugelmann.

Einsteins Piano: Shuteen Erdenebaatar – solo piano

The major participatory project from Opera semplice brings together amateur choirs of diverse backgrounds with professional musicians. Together with several community choirs, a children's choir and professional soloists, a special version of Puccini's masterpiece "Turandot" is presented.

Turandot for Everyone!

Konzert-Lesung-Performance: an evening dedicated to flowing, with compositions by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, J. S. Bach, Kengyo Yatsuhashi and Masako Ohta (world premiere, a performative composition-installation) and readings by Gunna Wendt and Siegfried Völlger. Part of the Bachfest München 2025.

RIVER - Ein Fluss

A concert series of contemporary music featuring new works, international collaboration, and a focus on young women composers.

Sonus Novus Concert Series

Edwards-Ward-Gennaro Trio. Free improvisation with Alex Ward (clarinet, guitar), John Edwards (double bass) and Mike Gennaro (drums).

SPINDRIFT

A comedy by Flavia Coste. A philosophical and burlesque comedy about a man who decides to live in a world without money.

Non to Money!

Théâtre de l’Escapade

Conference of the Birds II – Internationale Poetry Biennale München. Festival of poetry, performances, crossover and translation projects, workshops and encounters with over 50 poets from more than 20 countries.

8. Schamrock-Festival der Dichterinnen 2026

Concert & performance with lecture elements, music, dance, speech and scent; part of the supporting program of SENSING SITES – Decolonial Memory Search (October 23 – November 29, 2026). Stories of migration, colonialism, exploitation, displacement and resistance.

Rights to Rites – Songs of Memory and Resistance

Free improvised music trio: Isabelle Duthoit (voice, clarinet), Soizic Lebrat (cello), Yuko Oshima (percussion). Presented by Offene Ohren e.V., funded by the Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München.

ROUGE

Polish duo Emilia Gołos (piano/synthesizer) and Zuza Jasinska (vocals) present experimental jazz and song-form music, blending tonality and atonality, acoustic and electronic sounds, jazz and folklore, singer-songwriter aesthetics and avant-garde. Part of the UNHEARD series curated by Unterfahrt and mucjazz e.V., supported by the JazzStiftung München.

Einstein Kultur

Nov 5, 2026

Non to Money!

Nov 13, 2026

8. Schamrock-Festival der Dichterinnen 2026

Nov 14, 2026

Rights to Rites – Songs of Memory and Resistance

Nov 24, 2026

ROUGE

Oct 30 - Dec 6, 2026

Don't Pay!

Nov 4, 2026

UNHEARD: Kateryna Kravchenko & Arthur Clees Duo

Nov 1, 2026

Lucky Punch Comedy Mixed Show

Einstein Kultur