Harald Kimmig

VIOLINE | IMPROVISATION | PERFORMANCE

Harald Kimmig is an improvising musician and performer. In his work he uses improvisation to explore sounds and artistic forms and their interdisciplinary interactions with other arts. In his ensembles he plays improvised music. In a virtuoso manner, he combines sounds generated on the instrument with conventional violin playing and has developed a distinctive sound and style over the years. In his performances he also combines his violin playing with dance and movement sequences, which makes his performances unique.

In these performances, Harald Kimmig uses a wide range of media to examine the mechanisms of action of the various genres and arts and their influence on the human self: the possibilities, challenges, problems, but also the joys of encountering the other, the foreign, the familiar. Multimedia stage plays and installations intuitively explore and playfully trace the respective regularities, the similarities and differences and the reflections in the other. What keeps the network of references intact – but how and when does it break apart?

In the past, he has worked with Peter Kowald, Cecil Taylor (CD ‘Corona’ Looking), John Tchicai, Steve Lacy, Anzu Furukawa, Hideto Heshiki, Michael Schumacher, among others. Numerous CD, dance, theater and radio productions.

Dance and Theater Prize 2019 of the State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Stuttgart for the performance ‘Interface’.