Gert Kilian

Biography Gert Kilian

percussionist - balafonist - composition

* At the age of twelve, Gert Kilian started playing music as a rock-and blues drummer.

* Classical music studies in Stuttgart and Nuremberg.

* From 1976 to 1986, he recorded six LPs with the world music group OREXIS.

* "German Record Prize/Newcomer 1978" for their first album.

* Tours in Europe and Asia (Goethe-Institut).

* Musical studies in Australia, Papua New Guinea, India and Africa, Trinidad & Tobago.

Balafon

* 1983, Kilian forms the percussion group DRUMPACT.

* Three LPs/CDs and tours in Europe and Africa. Tours in Europe and Cameroon with DRUMPACT & BAOBAB, African dance theatre from Yaounde.

* Documentary record «afro percussion», music from Mali and Senegal.

* 1994 - 2000 Kilian works with LES ZOULOUSAINS, an ethno jazz group.

* Two CDs and tours in France, Spain, Great Britain.

* 1998, solo-CD and ethno pop group LOVE BREEZE with musicians from Holland, Germany and France.

* 2000 Formation of the group LOOPING - melodic percussion.

* 2001 publication of "balafon beat" (publisher: Verlag Zimmermann).

* 2002 CD LOOPING live

* Besides his artistic work, Kilian works as a teacher in percussion-workshops and teachers' training.

* 2005 CD LOOPING multitude

* 2006 creation of the trio "ALY KEITA & magic balafon"

* 2008 DVD "The Balafon" with Aly Keita and Gert Kilian

2009 workshop tour in Australia & New Zealand

2010 concert tour with PANDEMONIUM (NZ) in New Zealand

2011CD VOYAGES AFRICAINS

2013 CD afropean project

2014 DVD afropean project "Live in Toulouse"

2015 CD KÂLA ethno groove

2016 ALY KEITA & Kâla ethno groove

2017 "Integrationsprojekt "wir klingen zusammen" mit 40 jugendlichen Flüchtlingen in Hamburg