Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend

20/02/2026

05/12/2025

A big thanks to all the participants and audience that helped make Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend 2025 happen!

21/11/2025

Get your tickets here: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/
Join us today and tomorrow 8 pm at .pauli for the Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend 2025!

Serve! Backhand! Counterattack! Forehand! Topspin! Block! Smash!

Fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight! Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend 2025 is stepping up the pace: not only with a virtual ping-pong match featuring sensors and invisible players, but also with two quartets for toy pianos and blenders, music boxes with perforated strips, iPhone cooling fans, talking instrumentalists and a whole lot of fun!

Frederike Möller Margaret Leng Tan Moritz Eggert Jennifer Hymer Daria-Karmina Iossifova-Molier Steve Tanoto Mats O Hansson Huihui Cheng Raphael Brandstäter Karlheinz Essl Erik Griswold Phyllis Chen Genoël von Lilienstern

18/11/2025

Kiloh Lee- an avid ping pong player, Kiloh’s In Cue requires the performers to learn all the basics of ping pong playing as they navigate a mock match where their balls trigger electronic sounds.

21 + 22 November, 8 pm at resonanzraum
Get your tickets here: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/

17/11/2025

In Mats O Hansson's spectacular quartet ‘Blending In’ for four rebuilt food blenders the performers play bartenders who manipulate changes of color, produce chords between the blenders and yield overtones with pitch wheels. A percussive tapping movement yields a coordinated light show.

21 + 22 November, 8 pm at resonanzraum
Get your tickets here: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/

16/11/2025

We eagerly await the premiere of Karlheinz Essl's T.U.M.P. - The Ultimate Melodia Piece. If we think of the organ as a giant mountain, then we can think of the melodica as a kind of shrunken-down version of that - a tump.
In his new piece, Karlheinz Essl gives this weak and humble instrument a powerful voice so that it can match with her great ancestor, the organ.

21 + 22 November, 8 pm at resonanzraum
Get your tickets here: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/

14/11/2025

We'd like to thank our friends at Pianomovers UG for once again doing the literal heavy lifting for us! They have helped us safely get our instruments from point A to point B for years now and we have yet to find a tight spot they couldn't squeeze a piano through.

Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend 2025
21 + 22 November, 8 pm at resonanzraum
Get your tickets here: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/

12/11/2025

Our featured student composer for a toy piano piece this year is Niko Yin who is in the masters program of composition studying with Gordon Kampe in Hamburg. Her piece ‘Alice is not here’ for toy piano, music boxes and film is a fantasy letter in which ‘Alice’ has a dual identity- that of ‘Elise’ from Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ who transcends gradually into Alice in Wonderland. With Yuwen Huang - film.

21 + 22 November, 8 pm at resonanzraum
Get your tickets here: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/

09/11/2025

A creative powerhouse, Moritz Eggert is one of the most virtuosic pianists and prolific composers of (piano) music that pushes the boundaries for performers. He is also an important and active advocate for musician’s rights.

His piano cycle ‘Hämmerklavier’ which he began in 1994 now encompasses 33 works. Simultaneous to celebrating his 60th birthday at the Non-Piano/Toy Piano Festival he will perform the 33rd piece.

21 + 22 November, 8 pm at resonanzraum
Get your tickets here: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/

04/11/2025

One of our most busy toy piano bees, Frederike Möller plays, performs, creates, conducts, writes moderates and is the director of the International Düsseldorf Organ Festival and founder of the Düsseldorf Toy Piano Festival.
She will be this year's festival moderator for talks with Margaret Leng Tan and Moritz Eggert as well as performing her own composition with toy piano, water and samples as well a piece by Genoël von Lilienstern.

21 + 22 November, 8 pm at resonanzraum
Get your tickets here: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/

16/10/2025

The Queen of Toy Piano is coming to Hamburg! A long awaited dream come true for the Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend!

There’s not enough words to describe what Margaret Leng Tan has done for the success of establishing the toy piano as an important instrument. From her early close collaborations with John Cage to making his toy piano piece internationally known, she has gone on to commission countless pieces, touring all around the world with her theatrical toy piano performances.

We are thrilled and incredibly honored that she is now coming to Hamburg to celebrate her 80th birthday with us with works by Phyllis Chen, Erik Griswold and our youngest composer ever - 11-year-old Anastasha Suchin.

21 + 22 November, 8 pm at resonanzraum
Get your tickets now at: https://toypiano-weekend.de/en/2025-3/