Non-Piano Ensemble – non-piano toy piano weekend

The Non-Piano Ensemble is a Hamburg-based ensemble with 4 pianists at its core. It was founded by pianist Jennifer Hymer at the same time as the Hamburg festival Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend in 2014 in order to have a group of outstanding solo pianists who can also play works for toy and other small instruments such as toy pianos, melodicas, kalimbas, toy and percussion instruments, balloons, typewriters, etc.

Schedule

Beethoven Piano Club
When: 14/06/2025
Where: Pantheon, Bonn
Ticket: https://beethoven-piano-club.com/konzerte/

Erhörtes Unerhörtes
When: 13/07/2025
Where: Kulturkirche Rahlstedt-Ost

Stimmungen — Mikrotonalität und besondere Stimmungssysteme
When: 10/10/2025
Where: Chiffren Forum für zeitgenössische Musik e. V., Kiel

Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend
When: 21/11/2025
Where: resonanzraum, Hamburg

The essence of the beauty that morning …
When: 20/02/2026
Where: NDR & Musik 21 Niedersachsen: Konzertreihe im Kleinen Sendesaal des NDR in Hannover

Repertoire

Christopher Adler

Title: The Toy Robot’s Mechanical Heart
for toy piano and glockenspiel
Year: 2015
Duration: 6'

Alessandro Anatrini

Title: Reloaded
for 2 pianists and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 7'

Mark Applebaum

Title: Echolalia: 22 Amplified and Signal Processed Dadaist Rituals
for 1 performer
Year: 2006
Duration: 6‘

Katherine Balch

Title: These Intervals Matter
for soprano, crystal glasses and gravel
Year: 2020
Duration: 7'

Rusty Banks

Title: Babbling Tower-to-Tower
for toy piano and 4 (or more) cellphones
Year: 2011
Duration: 8‘

Béla Bartók

Title: The miraculous mandarin
for Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 2017
Arrangement: Steven Tanoto
Duration: 20'

Michael Beil

Title: Key Jane
for live-video and playback
Year: 2019
Duration: 12’

Greg Beller

Title: Two scenes from The Fault: The Call, The Baby
for mezzo-soprano and Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 2023
Arrangement: Steven Tanoto
Duration: 10'

Ed Bennett

Title: Crazy Legs
for toy piano
Year: 2015
Duration: 4'

Annesley Black

Title: Songs of Syphilis
for singing/speaking toy pianist
Year: 2019
Duration: 10'

John Cage

Title: 4,33
for piano
Year: 1952
Duration: 4'
Title: Credo in US
for quartet (piano, tin cans, radio)
Year: 1942
Duration: 8'
Title: Music for amplified toy pianos
for 3 toy pianos and objects
Year: 1960
Duration: 8'
Title: Living Room Music
for 4 perfomers
Year: 1940
Duration: 10'

Lucie Cunningham

Title: As She Likes It
for puppet theater and Non-Piano Ensemble (Commission)
Year: 2020
Arrangement: Steven Tanoto
Duration: 20'

Roderik de Man

Title: Transports
for speaking toy pianist
Year: 2002
Duration: 12‘

Thierry de Mey

Title: Musique de Table
for trio
Year: 1987
Duration: 7'

Anthony De Ritis

Title: Vox Minima Nebulae
for toy piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2021
Duration: 6'

Dante de Silva

Title: Scratch Record
for 2 toy pianos and toy instruments
Year: 2011
Duration: 5'

Hector Docx

Title: Toccata (to touch)
for viola und toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 5'
Title: The Day the Earth Smiled
for toy piano, kalimba, typewriter, piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2019
Duration: 10‘

Moritz Eggert

Title: One Man Band II
for piano and toy piano
Year: 2009
Duration: 6'
Title: Luftküsse
for sextet
Year: 1997
Duration: 4'
Title: Advanced Kabuki
for piano
Year: 2004
Duration: 6'
Title: The Son of the Daughter of Dracula versus the Incredible Frankenstein Monster(from Outer Space)
for 2 keyboards, percussion, violin, cello, piano and electronics
Year: 2004
Duration: 8‘
Title: Melodie 1.0
for melodica, piano and typewriter
Year: 1998
Duration: 4‘

Reena Esmail

Title: Chuti Hui Jahah
for voice and piano
Year: 2015
Duration: 10'

Karlheinz Essl

Title: Bricolage
for Schoenhut table top toy piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 7'
Title: Miles to Go
for 4 prepared and amplified toy pianos
Year: 2012
Duration: 8'

Denis Fargeton

Title: Tschinntschinn
for juggler and toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2018
Duration: 6'

Jan Feddersen

Title: Ujoforyt
for toy piano
Year: 2012
Duration: 4'

Francesco Filidei

Title: Esercizio do pazzia
for ballon quartet
Year: 2012
Duration: 8‘53

Julius Fučik

Title: Entry of the Gladiators, Opus 68
for Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 2018
Arrangement: Steven Tanoto
Duration: 4'

Dai Fujikura

Title: Breathless
for violin and toy piano
Year: 2014
Duration: 4'

Peter Gahn

Title: Bewegen Sie die Störung
for 3 toy pianos (Commission)
Year: 2014
Duration: 5'

Erik Griswold

Title: Down the Rabbit Hole
for toy piano
Year: 2015
Duration: 5'

Taleja Grossmann

Title: So are You
for voice and Non-Piano Ensemble (Commission)
Year: 2021
Duration: 7'

Peter Michael Hamel

Title: Om Namo Buddhaya
for mezzo-soprano and Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 1974
Duration: 5’

Mats O Hansson

Title: Fuoco
for toy piano, electroncis and video (Commission)
Year: 2020
Duration: 5'
Title: Papyeon
for piano and toy piano
Year: 2022
Duration: 7'

Jonathan Harvey

Title: Homage to Cage, à Chopin (and Ligeti ist auch dabei)
for keyboard and playback
Year: 1998
Duration: 5'

Benjamin Helmer

Title: Nowhere
for soprano, percussion and 3 toy pianos (Commission)
Year: 2015
Duration: 8'

Gustav Holst

Title: Venus
for Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 1914-1917
Arrangement: Steven Tanoto
Duration: 7‘35

Jeeyun Jang

Title: Too Smart to be a Dog
for performer and Non-Piano Ensemble (Commission)
Year: 2021
Duration: 7'

Guy Klucevsek

Title: Sweet Chinoserie
for toy pianos and toy instruments
Year: 1995
Duration: 5'

Tonia Ko

Title: A Night of Fight by Noises
for toy piano quartet and playback (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 10'

Jo Kondo

Title: Caccia
for toy piano
Year: 2016
Duration: 6'

Peter Köszeghy

Title: Alchemy II: crystal and bones
for 3 toy pianos (Commission)
Year: 2014
Duration: 10'
Title: La grotte de Lascaux
for voice, violin, toy piano, melodica and playback (Commission)
Year: 2011
Duration: 10'

Thomas Kotcheff

Title: Death, Hocket and Roll
for 2 toy pianos
Year: 2014
Duration: 6'

Bernhard Lang

Title: DW31 Loops for Edgar Froese
for piano duo and playback
Year: 2013
Duration: 15'
Title: Three Little Pigs
for Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 2010
Duration: 7'

Mauro Lanza

Title: Barocco
for soprano and toy instrument ensemble
Year: 1998-2003
Duration: 8'

Sascha Lino Lemke

Title: ID…a
for four pianists, grand piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 18'
Title: AKKORDeONoff
for pianist, electronics and video (Commission)
Year: 2014
Duration: 15'
Title: Lo ferm voler
for recorders, soprano, piano and electronics
Year: 2014
Duration: 8'
Title: Arnautz tramet sa chanson
for piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2017
Duration: 5'
Title: Alone
for tap-dancing show master
Year: 2015
Duration: 5'
Title: Albumblätter(er)
for piano four-hand and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2018
Duration: 15'
Title: The Dark Side of the Moon
for 3 vacum cleaners, midi-toy piano, melodica, fader-ballet (Commission)
Year: 2023
Duration: 15'
Title: Rapunzel
for pink plastic recorder and pink midi-toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2020
Duration: 15'
Title: Toilette Royal
for for soprano, midi-toy-cembalist and 3 court musicians (Commission)
Year: 2020
Duration: 15'
Title: Les petits riens
for 5 bar pieces for solo performer and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2021
Duration: 15'
Title: kalimBAO
for kalimba and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2007
Duration: 7'
Title: Parvati Plurabelle or: …a deluge of times…
for percussion and electronic (Commission)
Year: 2019
Duration: 8‘

Lin-Ni Liao

Title: Time of Trees
for gestures of 2 pianists and shadows
Year: 2016
Duration: 6'

György Ligeti

Title: Continuum
for arranged two toy pianos
Year: 1968
Duration: 4'
Title: Three Bagatelles for David Tudor
for piano
Year: 1961
Duration: 5'
Title: Selbstportrait mit Reich und Riley
for piano four-hand
Year: 1976
Duration: 10'
Title: Play Addict
for toy piano and samples
Year: 2013
Duration: 7'

Laura Livers

Title: Saudade de Cendrillon
for voice, sampler, melodica and piano (Commission)
Year: 2020
Duration: 7'

Annea Lockwood

Title: Gone
for music box and helium balloons (Commission)
Year: 2006
Duration: 6'

Minzuo Lu

Title: Forest Capriccio
for piano and toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2017
Duration: 5'

Juan Manuel

Title: Cranberry Sauce
for 3 toy pianos (Commission)
Year: 2023
Arrangement: Jaramillo Lleras
Duration: 8'

Linda Marcel

Title: Her Judgements
for toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2020
Duration: 5'

Chad Martin

Title: Andante Balinese
for 3 toy pianos
Year: 2009
Duration: 5'

Silvia Matheus

Title: Hands
for piano, video and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2002
Duration: 7'

Missy Mazzoli

Title: A Thousand Tongues
for viola and electronics
Year: 2011
Duration: 7'

Julia Mihaly

Title: Baby spin to Superman Reverse Variatons
for pink midi butterfly toy piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2017
Duration: 7'

Daniel Moreira

Title: Safety Procedures
for soprano, viola and electronics
Year: 2012
Duration: 7'
Title: Rhyhtmic Study 4: Ludvan ven Beethowig
for 2 toy pianos
Year: 2009
Duration: 4'

Ewelina Nowicka

Title: Cinderella
for violin and 3 toy pianos (Commission)
Year: 2020
Duration: 10'

IeDon Oh

Title: I’m a toy piano
for toy piano
Year: 2020
Duration: 4'

Diana Ortiz

Title: Toctoctoc
for bass recorder, toy piano and electronics
Year: 2024
Duration: 10'

Ruta Paidere

Title: Plenum
for 8 pianists and 1 piano
Year: 2013
Duration: 7'
Title: Talea
for toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2013
Duration: 7'

Adrian Pertout

Title: Estrellita
for 8 toy pianos
Year: 2012
Duration: 7'

Tam Thi Pham

Title: Dark Alleys
for performer, ampflied objects and electroncis
Year: 2019
Duration: 8'
Title: What is behind?
for piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2023
Duration: 7'

Enno Poppe

Title: Rad
for 2 keyboards
Year: 2003
Duration: 20'

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Title: Little Red Riding Hood, Op. 39, No. 6
for 3 toy pianos and 3 melodicas
Year: 1916-1917
Arrangement: Steven Tanoto
Duration: 5'

Maurice Ravel

Title: La Théière et la tasse chinoise
for Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 2018
Arrangement: Steven Tanoto
Duration: 4'

Steve Reich

Title: Music for Pieces of Wood
for 5 performers
Year: 1973
Duration: 10'

Benjamin Scheuer

Title: Borstige Ballad
for toy piano and samples (Commission)
Year: 2020
Duration: 7'
Title: moé
for soprano and otamatone
Year: 2019
Duration: 7'
Title: Merkwürdige Metamorphosen
for toy quartet and samples (Commission)
Year: 2023
Duration: 15'
Title: Quartett
for 4 performers with kitchen supplies (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 5'

Aigerim Seilova

Title: Unseen
for toy piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 8'

Jacob Sello

Title: Pink Magic
for toy piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2023
Duration: 7'

Sebastian Sprenger

Title: A Dog’s Life in Seoul
for erhu, accordion and toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2017
Duration: 6'

Manfred Stahnke

Title: Sentimental Journey
for toy piano and gadgets (Commission)
Year: 2006
Duration: 4'

Simon Steen-Andersen

Title: Rerendered
for pianist and 2 assistants
Year: 2003
Duration: 10'
Title: Difficulties Putting it Into Practice
for 2 amplified performers
Year: 2007, rev.2014
Duration: 10‘

Lisa Streich

Title: Matrioshka
for Paetzold, pump, melodica, and egg slicer
Year: 2022
Duration: 10'
Title: Safran
for violin and motorized piano
Year: 2017
Duration: 8'
Title: Créche
for motorized piano
Year: 2019
Duration: 3'
Title: Cadenza from Laster
for motorized piano and assistant
Year: 2018-2019
Duration: 7'

Fabian Svensson

Title: Grunt Work
for piano and toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2021
Duration: 8'
Title: Toy Toccata
for toy piano
Year: 2009
Duration: 5'
Title: Melodica Madness
for 8 melodicas, high-hat and bass instrument
Year: 2004
Duration: 15'
Title: Symphony of Toy Instruments
for 10 musicians
Year: 2013
Duration: 20'
Title: Clip Clop
for 3 stylophones, toy piano, bass melodica and percussion (Commission)
Year: 2019
Duration: 8‘

Steven Tanoto

Title: Recipe for a Perfectly Fine Domestic Housewife
for soprano and 2 toy pianists (Commission)
Year: 2014
Duration: 7'
Title: Kal-empong
for 3 kalimbas (Commission)
Year: 2016
Duration: 10'
Title: The Stranger
for contertenor and Non-Piano Ensemble (Commission)
Year: 2019
Duration: 4‘

Manuel Rodrigues Valenzuela

Title: Toccata á l’Acte
for piano and samples
Year: 2015
Duration: 5'
Title: T(t)-blocks version D
for 3 electric typewriters with pitch-shift pedals, accessories and video
Year: 2014
Duration: 4’

Sergio Vásquez Carrilllo

Title: Mar der Fuegos
for toy piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2016
Duration: 8'

Frederic Verriéres

Title: Evening Harmony
for midi-piano, pianist and 3 assistants
Year: 2017
Duration: 20'
Title: Four Note Waltz
for 2 toy pianos
Year: 2006
Duration: 7'

John Williams

Title: Main Title from Star Wars
for Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 1977
Arrangement: Steven Tanoto
Duration: 6‘

Steffen Wolf

Title: Dort Oben
for dancer and toy piano (Commission)
Year: 2020
Arrangement: Lara Hahnel
Duration: 10'
Title: The Cut
for hairdresser, baritone, toy piano and hair model (Commission)
Year: 2021
Duration: 10'

Shuang Wu

Title: Apple Green
for toy piano and electronics (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 5'

Pamela Z

Title: No Baggage
for performer
Year: 2010
Duration: 3'
Title: Notice of Baggage Inspection
for piano and tape
Year: 2007
Duration: 3'
Title: Dr. Melfi
for voice and Non-Piano Ensemble
Year: 2007
Duration: 6'

Ruben Zahra

Title: The Worm Crawl
for toy piano and soundtrack
Year: 2021
Duration: 5'

Dong Zhou

Title: Go Cut Your Foot
for performer and shoes (Commission)
Year: 2020
Duration: 6'
Title: Not my Qipao
for performer and amplified Qipao
Year: 2019
Duration: 4'

Albrecht Zummach

Title: Leise Rufe 2
for toy piano and ukulele (Commission)
Year: 2024
Duration: 7'

Bernhard Fograscher

Daria-Karmina Iossifova

Steven Tanoto

Jennifer Hymer