While frequently used in ethnic music, the kalimba is yet to be established as a vital new music instrument.  The goal of Kalimba! is to anchor it  more firmly in the new music repertoire as a solo instrument. 

 

Jennifer Hymer's first experience playing the kalimba was in her husband Georg Hajdu's piano piece "Light Blue" where the kalimba is integrated into the first movement. Becoming more intrigued, she commissioned new pieces for her project 'Piano, Toy Piano, Kalimba & Gadgets", receiving works for toy piano and kalimba by Manfred Stahnke, piano and kalimba by Peter Hamel with Sascha Lino Lemke writing a solo  for kalimba and electronics.  

 

With Kalimba! a new program will be presented in September 2009 for kalimba solo (and electronics)  - with world premieres by Anthony De Ritis, Karlheinz Essl, Annie Gosfield, Lukas Ligeti and Oliver Schneller alongside pieces by Sascha Lino Lemke, David Lang and Manfred Stahnke.

 

The premiere concerts of  Kalimba!Kontained will be sponsored by the Hamburg Netzwerk Project "Klang" in the "Klang!" Container on September 12th and 13th 2009: Kalimba!Kontained: a tiny, portable instrument for Hamburg's tiniest portable concert hall.

_{Jennifer Hymer    Telefon: 040/23517610     mail(at)jenniferhymer.de}