Jonathan Tshimbombo

Jonathan Thimbombo Mbayi is a drummer and percussionist living in Kinshasa. For more than ten years he has worked with Kojack Kossakamvwe and toured extensively with him throughout West and Central Africa. He has been on stage in many of his projects – including an adaptation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with an ensemble of Congolese musicians at the Institut Français in Lubumbashi and in REQUIEM 242, an adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem in Brazzaville.

Photo: Anja Köhler