Media
Below is a collection of videos that showcase the range of my musical adventures. I rarely have a video camera running, so most of my favorite moments simply have to remain only in memory, but the following categories offer a decent sampling of what I am capable of.
Choral Conducting
I have been conducting choirs since I was a junior in high school. These videos are from schools I taught at as well as my senior recital aty Texas Wesleyan where i assembled a chorus of about 40 of my friends and colleagues especially for the recital.
Daemon and Light Out of Darkness - FWAFA Singers - Nov 2018 - Hans Grim conductor
Opening Sequence from my Senior Recital
March 6, 2012 - Blackbird and Waternight
Edward Elgar's "False Love" from my Senior Recital
March 6, 2012
Alvarado HS Choir UIL Concert Performance March 27, 2024
O Magnum Mysterium
Senior Recital March 6, 2012
Miserere
FWAFA Christmas Concert 2018
Give Me Jesus
Senior Recital March 6, 2012
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
Senior Recital March 6, 2012
Say Something
2nd year of teaching High School at an inner city school.
"O Love" - My High School Choir the first year I directed them. (I'm at the piano)
Glow
FWAFA Christmas Concert 2018
As a senior in high school in 1994, I had the great honor of conducting my high school choir on a piece in our year end concert.
Musical Theatre
The first show I music directed was a production of West Side Story with a pit of 3 people! It was insanely challenging, but I was able to make it work with the resources I was given. It remains one of my absolute favorite shows to MD. Over the years I've been blessed to work with some exceptionally talented casts and assemble much larger orchestras at regional theatres and colleges. I'm most at home in the pit.
In the summer of 2022 I spent a week at NYU studying musical theatre conducting with an absolute legend of a maestro - Ted Sperling as partof a summer intensive.
Due to copyright restrictions - some additional musical theatre videos are only available view private link to potential clients.
Promo for SMU Production of Beautiful City
"Whatever" - Hans Grim MD for SMU's Musical "This Beautiful City" - 2012
Note: we synced up the video using a click track w/count off.
Colaborative Pianist
The very personal experience of making music with another performer is something that drives me. Any opportunity I have to provide piano support to a vocal or instrumental artist feeds my creative spirit.
Theme from Schindler's List
Marina Dichenko
Stars and the Moon
Hans at Piano, Mary Grim on vocal
Piano/Vocalist
Breeze off the River
Hans vocal and piano
Zueignung and Love to Me Senior Recital March 6, 2012
Organist
The Lord Bless You and Keep You
Freut Euch
@ the Jesuit Church Bratislava, Slovakia
Cantique
Extended practice and voicing session
Pianist
During the pandemic I helped produce several videos that needed short underscoring. This is a bank of some short 'ditties' I used as a source when I needed something. I didn't realize when I filmed it that you can see the strings vibrating. How neat! These recordings were made using a pair of Audix SCX25A large diaphragm condenser mics. Most of these short pieces are from choral pieces I love.