Paul Hanmer

Paul Hanmer ( born 1961 in Cape Town) is a composer and jazz pianist from South Africa.

Life and work

Hanmer studied at the University of Cape Town and moved to Johannesburg in 1987. Together with drummer Ian Herman and bassist Pete Sklair was a three -piece band, the Unofficial Language called. She brought her 1994 debut album move moves out, the Primal Steps followed.

Hanmer is also the keyboard player for the South African The Sheer All Stars, in which he appeared with Sipho Gumede, McCoy Mrubata and Frank Paco. Similar to the works of Keith Jarrett also builds his music on minimalist repetition as constant changes in the texture on, but is also " marked unmistakably by his native South Africa ."

Furthermore Hanmer for Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Jonathan Butler and Pops Mohamed has worked. In 2008 his Clarinet Quintet was first performed in the foyer musical of the Zurich Opera House. In 2009 he was artist in residence at the Künstlerhaus Boswil; In the same year he entered Switzerland in a duo with saxophonist McCoy Mrubata.

In January 2014 Hanmers were 7 Winter Episodes for solo basset horn and orchestra from JSAG ( Aargau Youth Symphony Orchestra ) premiered with Robert Pickup as a soloist.

Disco printing specifications

• Trains to Taung (1997)
• Window to Elsewhere (1998)
• Playola (2000)
• Naivasha (2002)
• Water and Lights ( 2004)
• Hanmer / Mrubata Boswil The Concert ( 2009)

• Move moves (1994 )
• Primal Steps (1999)