Drift [I] (The Elements in Review) for violoncello (2017)

Duration: ca. 14-16 Minutes Commissioned by Matthias Lorenz with kind support of Kunstraum geh8 (Dresden) WP: Dresden, 24.11.2017 (Matthias Lorenz) Further performances: Oldenburg 26.11.2107, Bremerhaven 27.11.2017, Berlin 6.11.2018, Prague 8.11.2018 (Czech premiere), Bremerhaven 30.6.2019, Oldenburg 1.7.2019, Dresden 4.7.2019 Publisher: Schott music Introduction (North polar ice drift. Source: Wikimedia commons) Linguistics has adopted the concept of…

Dob és tánc for piano (2011/12)

Besetzung: Piano Duration: ca. 5‘ Publisher: Schott Music WP: 19.6.2012, New York, The Julliard’s School Paul Hall Michael Brown, piano Video on Youtube Introduction   Dob és tánc (Drum and Dance) is the title of a famous poem by the Hungarian writer Sándor Weöres. The beginning of this poem („csönd béke“) with its elastic rhythm…

Brummen. Kreiseln for accordion with choral top (2011)

Instrumentation: Accordion and choral top (1 player) Duration: ca. 5‘ WP: 4.11.2011, Klangwerkstatt Berlin (Susanne Stock) Further performances: a.o. Weimar 17.11.2012, Heinrichsruh 24.11.2012, Brandenburg/Havel 20.3.2013, Berlin 7.5.2013, München 8.6.2013, Dresden 12.3.2017 Introduction: A partly improvisational duet for one player in space notation where the sounds of the accordion are combined with the spinning noise and…

maverick II [murmuring] for bass flute (2009)

Instrumentation: subcontrabass flute (or contrabass flute or bass flute) Duration: ca. 12 minutes Publisher: Schott Music (in preparation) Commissioned by the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik with support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation WP: May 1, 2010, Weimar (Carin Levine) Further performances: May 3, 2010, Würzburg Introduction: maverick II [murmuring] is the second…

hidden tracks for accordion (2008-09)

Duration: ca. 15‘ Publisher: Schott Music WP: March 7, 2009, Heinrichsruh (Susanne Stock) Introduction: The title hidden tracks is amibiguous. First of all, the piece is almost throughout imagined as „multi-track“, with layers (in the sense of sound tracks) that partly overlay each other, partly suddenly appear from the background. The composition deals with „hidden“…

maverick I [noise] for contrabass clarinet or bass clarinet (2008)

Duration: 9‘ Publisher: Schott Music FP: August 24, 2008, Ahrenshoop (Theo Nabicht) Further performances: Dec 13, 2008, Ratzdorf, “Kajüte” July 30, 2013, Bamberg April 22, 2018, Tolstefanz April 24, 2018, Berlin Radio broadcast: May 25, 2009, Nordwestradio (Radio Bremen), musica nova Jan 26, 2011, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg CD: edition zeitklang (Theo Nabicht) Introduction: maverick I [noise]…

Pop Goes the Weasel for violin solo (2002)

Publisher: Schott Music Duration: ca. 11′ FP: Sep 26, 2002, Berlin (Ekkehard Windrich) Further performances: April 4, 2003, Stein am Rhein (Swiss premiere, Ekkehard Windrich) June 3, 2015, Tirana/Albania (Albanian premiere, Ekkehard Windrich) Introduction: 1. “Sarasate, whose first concert I missed, performed Mendelssohn’s Violin concerto last Saturday. Personally, I would have been all right with…

Pits & Pendulums for bassoon and tape (2002)

Instrumentation: bassoon, 4-channel-tape Duration: 13′30 FP: Chemnitz, 16.10.03 (Thomas Eberhardt, Bassoon) Further performances: Leipzig, 17.Oct. 2003 Dresden, Sept. 28, 2005 Introduction: Pits & Pendulums was composed in the studio for electronic music of the Dresden Music Academy, supported by a grant of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. While examinating the vast…

Studies on Pits & Pendulums for two-channel tape (1999)

Duration: 8′ (#1: 5′, #2: 3′) FP: 18.5.1999, Helsinki Further performances: Jun 18, 2003, Dresden (German premiere) Apr 27, 2006, Magdeburg Radio broadcast: SFB 15.4.2002 (#2), MDR 3.4.03 Introduction: Studies on Pits and Pendulums was produced in the SACMUS-Studio of the Sibelius academy. The two movements, which are actually skteches for the project Pits &…

Palimpsest for piano (1998, rev. 1999)

Publisher: Ms. Duration: ca. 5′- ca. 14′ FP: April 26, 1998, Dresden (Sibylle Wolf), FP: (revised version) March 15, 1999, Helsinki (Benjamin Schweitzer) Further performances: May 6, 1998, Dresden Oct 22, 2002, Berlin Oct 24, 2002, Berlin Feb 23, 2003, Basel (Swiss premiere, C.R. Hirschfeld) April 4, 2003, Stein am Rhein June 3, 2003, Berlin…

Am Wegesrand für Violoncello solo (1998)

Publisher: Ms. (score upon request) Duration: ca. 9′ FP: October 12, 1998, Leipzig (Juliane Gilbert) Further performances: Dec 11, 1999, Dresden May 13, 2000, Dresden Sept 15, 2001, Annaberg Sept 19, 2001, Frankfurt/Main (Matthias Lorenz) Nov 21, 2003, Berlin July 20, 2005, Würzburg (Graham Waterhouse) Jan 30, 2009, Dresden Sept 10, 2011, Leipzig (Marika Gejrot)…

Tractus for two-channel tape (1997)

Duration: 8′ FP: Nov 12, 1997, Dresden Further performances: a.o. Nov 13, 1998, Helsinki (Finnish premiere) Introduction: The word ‘Tractus’ is of Latin origin, meaning an ‘even, permanent motion’. The composition is based on a permanent structure, consisting of thirteen overlapping layers which are related to prime numbers between 5 and 47. This structure is…