Biography

Flutist Hans Balmer was born in Berne, Switzerland, in 1964. After passing the university-entrance diploma (matura), he attended the Conservatory there as a student of Christian Studler and was awarded the performance certificate “with distinction” in 1990. He attended masterclasses by Aurèle Nicolet, Renate Greiss, Harrie Starreveld, Felix Renggli and Carin Levine (International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt) amongst others. He received important musical influences from Siegfried Palm, Jörg Ewald Dähler, Urs Peter Schneider and many more.

He gives solo and chamber music concerts, does radio recordings with contemporary music and works as a freelance orchestra musician and teacher.

CDs:
1994 with Edwin Peter, organ: Music by C. Ph. E. Bach, F. Martin, Isang Yun
2004 Charles Koechlin: «Les Chants de Nectaire» for solo flute, 2nd series
2008 «Tempus loquendi…»: Music for solo flute by Jacob van Eyck, Edgard Varèse, Franco Evangelisti, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Urs Peter Schneider
2009 «minimal flute»: Music by Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Terry Riley