Musical Activities


2022 India: Concerts in Delhi, Darjeeling, Sikkim, Bangalore
France: Video production „Rainer Pusch Quartet 22“ (Montpellier)
feat.: Jean -Marie Frédéric, Eric Breteau, Gabrielle Koehlhoefer “

2021 Mannheim Moves, Audio-visual Project, feat. compositions by rainer Pusch and visual impressions by Lutz Berger.

2018-2020 Member of the „Pianoman House Band„, New Delhi (India)
Concerts in Bombay, Bangalore, Goa (India)

2017 Concert with Pianoman Allstars at the „Magnetic Fields Festival“ (Rajasthan, India)

2016 Concerts with Ganesh & Kumaresh, Arun Kumar, Bangalore (India)
Lalitha & Nandini at the „Nishagandhi Festival“ (Kerala, India)

2015 Creation of the jazz- fusion band „Die Üblichen Verdächtigen“

2015 Concerts with Rainer Pusch’s „Horn Please“ feat. Michel Marre, Gabrielle Koehlhoefer, Dirik Schilgen (Germany), Joël Allouche (France) organised for the 13ème Semaine Allemande (Montpellier, France)

2014 Member of the Seaburn Cruise Boat Band (Pacific Ocean)
Concerts with Sonam Kalrat, Vasundra Vee, Think Floyd New Delhi, Bangalore, Pune(India)
Solo concerts for the 12ème Semaine Allemande in Montpellier (France)

2013 Concerts with Rainer Pusch Trio with Ander Garcia & Miguel Benito, Madrid (Spain)

2012 Concerts with Ma Faisa, Arati Rao-Shetty, Tarun Balani, New Delhi (India)
Tour coordinated by the German Goethe Institut with KARUNA Kshetra feat. Manickam Yogeswaran (India)

2011 Concert Rainer Pusch Quartet at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (Germany)
Opening concert for the „Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis“ in Mannheim with KARUNA Kshetra feat. Manickam Yogeswaran (Germany)
Concert with Rajat Prasana at the „World Flute Festival“, New Delhi (India)
Concerts with SOS

2010 Concerts with Ganesh & Kumaresh, New Delhi (India)
Rainer Pusch Quartet, Bangalore (India),
Shivanova, New Delhi & Bombay (India),
Yuvraj Viku Chhetri, Marcus Dengate, Kathmandu (Nepal)
Concert with the Rainer Pusch Quartet feat. Ranjit Barot, Sanjay Deveja, Karl Peters, Bangalore (India)

2009 Concerts with Mrigya (New Delhi), Dr. Mysore Manjunath, Hampi, Mysore, Bangalore (India)
Concerts with Sanjay Deveja, Adrian D’Souza, Amit Heri Bombay (India)

2008 & 09 Concerts with Karuna feat. Manickam Yogeswaran at the Kultursommerfestival Ludwigshafen (Germany)

2008 Tour with the Rainer Pusch Quartet (Estonia)
Concert and live recording (WDR) of Carnatic Sax with Ramnat Gopalnat, Mainz (Germany)

2007 Concerts with the Rainer Pusch Quartet (Germany)

2006 Concert of the Rainer Pusch Trio at the Birstonas Jazz Festival (Litonia)

2005 CD production “Indian Song Book” (France)

2004 Concert with Rainer Pusch Quartet at the YvP Festival, Ulm (Germany)
Concert with Karuna at the Ouaga Jazz festival, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

2003 Concerts with his Carnatic-Jazz-Fusion Band „Karuna“ (France)

2002 Composition “Marga” for a symphonic wind orchestra for the Bayerische Landesakademie (Germany)

2000-01 Concerts with Siegfried Kessler, Philippe Petrucciani, Philippe Renaud, Michel Barrot, Benoît Paillard, Didier de la Guila (France)

1998-99 Concerts with Ganesh Kumar, V. Selvaganesh, Ranjit Barot, Sivamani, Dr. Balamuralikrishnan, Louis Banks, Karl Peters, Amit Heri, Mumbai, Bangalore & Chennai (India)
Studio musician in the Indian movie industry Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai (India)

1997 Recordings for A. R. Rahman in Chennai & Bombay (India)
CD & tour “The Beginning & the End” withJean-Marie Frédéric, Michel Bismut & Patrice Heral (France),
Tour of the Rainer Pusch & Mario Stantchev Duo (Germany & France)

1996 Tour of the Rainer Pusch & Horace Parlan Duo (Germany)

1995 CD & tour “Jo” with the Gilles Trial Quartet(France)
Duo with Peter Kowald (Germany)

1994 CD & tour „In Between Those Changes“ of the Rainer Pusch & Horace Parlan Duo (Germany)

1993 Tour of the Rainer Pusch French Quartetwith Benoît Paillard, Michel Bismut & Patrice Heral (Germany)

1992 Tour of the Rainer Pusch Trio (Russia, Baltics)
Tour of the Rainer Pusch Quartet coordinated by the German Goethe Institut (Indonesia)

1991 Scholarship of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
CD production with the „Süd Pool Ensemble“ directed by Bernd Konrad feat. Karl Berger (Germany)
Concert of the Rainer Pusch Sextet feat. Art Farmer & Emil Mangelsdorff (Germany)

1990 Rainer Pusch Project Band with Johannes Weidemüller, Claudine François & John Betsch, Heidelberg & Mannheim (Germany)
Radio production of the Rainer Pusch Quartet at the Jazzfestival Baden-Württemberg (Germany)

1989 Tour & CD of the Rainer Pusch Quartet „Rainer Pusch meets Horace Parlan“ (Germany & France)

1988 Composition of the music for the poem “Die Dunkelheit ist da” by Elisabeth Alexander for a jazz sextet & speaker (Germany)

1987 Creation of the Rainer Pusch Trio feat. Allan Blairman (Germany)

1986-87 Composer & musical director for many theatre productions at theStädtische Bühne Heidelberg (Germany)

1986 Radio production with the Rainer Pusch Big Band feat. Art Farmer at the Studiobühne, Heidelberg (Germany)
Concert of the Rainer Pusch Big Band at the Mannheim Jazz-Festival under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer (Germany)
Tour of the Rainer Pusch Big Band (France)

1985 Composition for the ARD television show Löwenzahn (Germany)

1984-86 Weekly concerts of the Rainer Pusch Big Band at Cave54, Heidelberg (Germany)

1984 Creation of the Rainer Pusch Big Band (Germany)

1982-83 weekly concerts at the Ryles Jazzclub, Boston (USA)

1980 First record with the Rainer Pusch Quartet „Journey Agent“ (Germany)
with Thomas Stabenow, Michael Kersting & Klaus Wagenleiter
Concert at the Jazzfestival San Sebastian (Spain)

1979 Tour with the Frederic Rabold Crew coordinated by the German Goethe Institut (Romania)

1978-82 Concerts with the Rainer Pusch Quartet (Germany)

1977 2nd prize at the Jazzfestival San Sebastian (Spain)