Gert Kilian - Percussion Unlimited

Biography Gert Kilian

• 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.

• 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".
• 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.
• 2010 balafon workshops in Italy, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
• 2011 concert- and workshop tour with PANDEMONIUM in New Zealand.
• 2013 CD Voyages Africains.
• 2013 CD "afropean project", tour in Germany,Czech Republic, and France.
• 2014 balafon workshop in Burkina Faso.
• 2015 CD KÂLA ethno groove.
• 2016 Tours in Poland, France, Germany.
• 2017 Integration Project for Refugees "wir klingen zusammen" / Hamburg.
• 2020 Workshops, concerts with KÂLA ethno groove.
• 2022 Creation of the group MAGIC MALLETS Percussions from another World.
• 2023 Guest of honour at the AFPercu "Association Française pour la Percussion" Convention / Paris.