27 October 2022 | Deep Blue | Alter Face piano Ensemble | Teatre Principal Palma de Mallorca

Thanks to Tomeu Mol-Mas, the piano duo Alter Face, Tomeu and Albert Diaz, performs three pieces in Palma in the Teatre Principal. Tomeu plays Key Jack and the duo performs a new 4-handed version of Mach Sieben and a new piece called Deep Blue. Deep Blue is more an ongoing project than finished work. During the covid break I started programming a framework for 2 players sitting opposite each other like chess players, performing on a controller with 64 knobs. My plan is to give more responsibility to musicians without overwhelming them with too much impro. The players choose a set of eight videos, they can start to process image and sound. For each performance there will be a process of working together on a solution, fitting to the respective concert. In this case, with the permission of the other composers, the videos are related to the other pieces of the concert by François Rossé and Michael Maierhof.

27 October 2022 | Deep Blue | Alter Face piano Ensemble | Teatre Principal Palma de Mallorca

Thanks to Tomeu Mol-Mas, the piano duo Alter Face, Tomeu and Albert Diaz, performs three pieces in Palma in the Teatre Principal. Tomeu plays Key Jack and the duo performs a new 4-handed version of Mach Sieben and a new piece called Deep Blue. Deep Blue is more an ongoing project than finished work. During the covid break I started programming a framework for 2 players sitting opposite each other like chess players, performing on a controller with 64 knobs. My plan is to give more responsibility to musicians without overwhelming them with too much impro. The players choose a set of eight videos, they can start to process image and sound. For each performance there will be a process of working together on a solution, fitting to the respective concert. In this case, with the permission of the other composers, the videos are related to the other pieces of the concert by François Rossé and Michael Maierhof.

18 October 2022 | caravan + Key Jack | Black Page Orchestra | ISCM Koreaw.facebook.com/panmusicfestival/

Black Page Orchestra performs caravan and Key Jack again in Korea

05 October 2022 | along | Alex Tentor | Mixtur Festival Santa Monica Museum Barcelona

I am again guest at MIxtur Festival in Barcelone, but this time in person and not online only. Alex Tentor is playing along in Santa Monica Museum. And I am teaching for some days in Fabra i Coats.

18 September 2022 | Key Jane | Malgorzata Walentynowicz | ATM studio Warsaw Automn

Malgorzata Walentynowicz plays Key Jane in the amazing ATM Studio at Warsaw Automn Festival :)))

31 August 2022 | Key Jack / String Jack / Blackjack | Ensemble Musikfabrik | Strom im Carlswerk

Together with 3 pieces for two pianos by Brigitta Muntendorf, Ensemble Musikfabrik will perform all my “Jacks” in one concert in Cologne. It will be a challenge to manage three different live-video pieces in one concert, but we are all looking forward. The premiere of Blackjack in 2012 was one of the greatest concert experiences i had so far. I am extremely happy that Musikfabrik plays it again in this impressive location after exactly 10 years.

14 August 2022 | Key Jack | Ning Yu | Time Spans NYC

I am very happy that Ning Yu performs Key Jack at the time spans festival in New York. It will be a great version and the first (official) performance in the USA.

06 June 2022 | caravan | Ensemble Garage | Alte Feuerwache Köln

caravan for the first time live in my home town.

09 Mai 2022 | Die Zwei | defunensemble I frequenz festival Kiel

After the online-concert streamed from YLE Areena in Helsinki last year, Email Holmström and Hanna Kinnunen now play Die Zwei for flute and piano live in Kiel.

31 August 2022 | Blackjack | Ensemble Helix | Festival Wege der Wahrnehmung Luzern

Thanks to Emilio Guim and Eric Borgir the Ensemble fot contemporary musid at the HSLU in Lucerne played a great version of Blackjack.

06 Mai 2022 | Key Jane | Elisa Medinilla with Nadar Ensemble | frequenz festival Kiel

The first post-corona-performance of Key Jane, yeah!!

16 January 2022 | exit to enter | Ensemble OMN | Katowice

The OMN Ensemble plays exit to enter a second time because they enjoyed so much the first time in Wroclaw :)

26-28 November 2021 | Hide To Show | Nadar | Next Level Festival

Hide To Show will be performed 5 times during the next level festival in “Zeche Zollverein” in Essen.

19 November 2021 | caravan | Icarus vs Muzak/Agon | Spazio Musica Cagliari

Second performance of caravan by Ensemble Icarus vs Muzac/Agon. This time in Calgiari.

04 November 2021 | caravan | ensemble scope | Mehrklang Freiburg

A new version of caravan with Anna Stelzner, Paul Ebert, Lucia Kilger and Frederike Scheunchen.

10 November 2021 | Hide To Show | Nadar | De Singel Antwerp

Second performance of Hide To Show in Antwerp.

10 November 2021 | along | Alexy Potapov | Mutabor Club Moscow

Alexy Potapov plays “along” a third time, yeah!! And Batterie for drumset and tape with video by Veit Lup is also played.

07 November 2021 | Aus Eins Mach Zehn | Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra | Gaida Festival Vilnius

This is a highlight for me and I am so sad that I cannot be there for the concert. At least I will attend a rehearsal of the LNSO playing my orchestra piece from 2000. It was commissioned by the SWR orchestra for eclat 2001 and performed two times only. So this is the 3rd performance after exactly 20 years (OMG). It’s the #2 of my series of palindromic pieces after Mach Sieben in 1999.

04 November 2021 | caravan & Und Sechs | Synaesthesis | Gaida Festival Vilnius

Synaesthesis plays caravan and an older piece from 2000 called “Und Sechs”. This is an early piece I don’t have on my list in the net. It has been played rarely in the last decade. It’s with tape only, no video no live stuff. It was an important piece fro me, where I tried to deal with pop music for the time. It was a commission by Modern Art Sextett and they premiered it in Berlin.

03 November 2021 | exit to enter & Key Jack | NADAR | Gaida Festival Vilnius

NADAR performed the premiere of exit to enter and Nadar performs the first version with MaxMSP. For years this was the last piece I had to do with PD and an old firewire set-up. It’s the last piece I redid with Max. So I can happily say goodbye to PD (A great app with very lazy support for Mac unfortunately). Together with exit to enter, Elisa Medinilla plays Key Jack and Nadar play great pieces by Stefan Prins.

18 October 2021 | caravan | Black Page Orchestra | OPEN MUSIC GRAZ

Black Page Orchestra performs caravan and String Jack together with pieces by Brigitta Muntendorf, who is the featured composer in focus of the open music festival in Graz.

13 October 2021 | Hide To Show | Nadar | Concertgebouw Brugge

After an intense work of 2 years and after an amazing amount of rehearsals made possible by the incredible NADAR ensemble, my new piece “Hide To Show” will be eventually presented in Brugge. In this piece I push everything I was working on in the past to its borders. The piece revolves around hyperreality in its purest form, about everything a musician can do related to music and about trying to sync with the invisible others, trying to hide for showing oneself as an avatar. We had our first rehearsal in 2020, just when corona popped up. We had to wait for a year and during this time, trying to sync with others in isolation became the normal way of communication. It was really scary for me to see that the whole musical world around me was forced to confront impacts of isolation and communication via video, after I just had finished my research about exactly this.
The composition is also a journey into Belgian New Beat (acid) and a research about copying and covering on Youtube by following the history of Ievan Pollka form Russia to Japan. The glorious musicians of Nadar play and sing and dance and act like hell and all this by heart. You should not miss it.

09 October 2021 | caravan | Icarus vs Muzak/Agon | Aperto Festival in Reggio Emilia

First time Icarus vs Muzac/Agon and first time in Italy, I wonder if it is my performance in Italy since I won a contest in my 20s. (OMG) Anyway it’s a great concert with pieces by Alexander Schubert and Jakob TV.

07 October 2021 | Und Acht | Dariusz Mazurowski | Gdansk

I wonder where Dariusz got the score and if he played it with the video of Gerhard Scherer. But I am happy that it is played from time to time. Und Acht was my last piece with fixed video and my first piece with splitscreen.

01 October 2021 | caravan | Ensemble Garage | Festival Mixtur Barcelona

Garage shows caravan around the world :)

10 September 2021 | along | Alexy Potapov | Mutabor Club Moscow

Alexy Potapov plays “along” again in the famous and spacious mutabor.club in Moscow. Makes me proud a bit that my composition is presented there and I am quite sad that I cannot be there.

22 July 2021 | caravan | Ensemble Garage I Artheater Cologne

A video production of caravan by Ensemble Garage made as a corona baby in 2020 together with warpedtype is shown during a concert in Artheater in Cologne. In this version of the piece for video we tried to bring the live-feeling to the video by a moving cam.

27 June 2021 | Key Jane | Silvia Lucas I Virtuallyreality

Silvia Lucas made a very special online version of Key Jane using a watch in the background to prove the live situation. The video was premiered on the website of the virtuallyreality (Manchester) as part their online festival.

15 Mai 2021 | caravan | pulso ensemble | Resis Festival

During the Resis Festival in Galicia/Spain the pulso ensemble performs caravan. I hope, that it can take place live and with audience.

12 Mai | Key Jane | Vanesa Santanach I Festival Sonalgimia

Vanesa performs her version of Key Jane in Valencia again.

25 -28 March 2021 | Key Jack | Miquel Ausina | Sala Russafa Valencia

Miquel Ausina plays Key Jack in an interesting cross media program called metamorfosis in Sala Russafa in Valencia.

10 February2021 | Die Zwei | defunensemble I Helsinki

In a concert streamed from YLE Areena in Helsinki, Email Holmström and Hanna Kinnunen played Die Zwei for flute and piano with a very special video processed live during the stream. Thanks to Sami Klemola for organising this. In the stream the live-streaming guys made it possible to see the musicians play the piece in different speeds at the same time without in transparent video layers. It’s great, when the corona restrictions lead to new versions. For sure this one will find its way in a real concert hall one day. I like it very much.

29 January 2021 | along | Alexy Potapov | Moscow

Alexy Potapov shows an impressive version of along with multiple projections in a streaming concert out of the Rachmaninov-Hall in Moscow.

January 2021 | Doppel | Grau-Schumacher | WDR

Last year I had the great opportunity to make a video production of my composition Doppel for two pianos with live-video. Harry Vogt made it possible and invited Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher again, 13 years after the premiere, in the same hall. You can watch it here until December 2021. Afterwards it will be part of my Youtube channel.

25. January 2021 | caravan | Emilio Guim | Youtube

Emilio publishes his great solo version of caravan. I love it and I am looking forward to seeing it live soon.

18 January 2021 | caravan | conceptstore quartet | SMC Lausanne

La société de la musique contemporaine de Lausanne streams a concert with the conceptstore quartet. It’s the first live-stream of caravan and two other performances will follow.

11 December 2020 | swap | IEMA | HfMDK Frankfurt

Sugar, Maths and Whips is the name of the IEMA concert with pieces by Simon Steen-Andersen, Alexander Schubert, Malin Bang and, in this great context, my composition swap for three woods. Unique about this piece is the high speed swapping of instruments. This is a new kind of virtuosity and the reason for the name of my composition, but I still wonder which word in the name of the concert is meant for it :) Here are the streaming links on Facebook or Youtube.

19 November 2020 | caravan | Ensemble Tempus-Konnex | Ensemble Festival Leipzig

I feel honored, that caravan will be featured in the Leipzig Ensemble Festival 2020 by TempusKonnex.

(postponed)

31. Oktober 2020 | Key Jane | Elisa Medinilla with Nadar Ensemble | Albanova Festival

Despite coronna, Elisa will play Key Jane in a Nadar program in Belgium. Strange times and so great that this is possible

20-21 October 2020 | caravan | Ensemble Garage | Videoproduction

Together with warped type caravan will be produced as a one-take video with moving cam. Soon on YouTube :))) And in the future there will be a live version with moving camera.

14 October | Die Zwei | Manuel Zurria I Impuls Festival Halle

Manuel Zurria plays Die Zwei together with Stéphane Ginsburgh with a new video made in the hall. It’s in a programm with the significant name enter the void.

28 September | Key Jane | Haize Lizarazu I Phonos

This is the first concert after corona paralyzed culture. Haize plays Key Jane again. This time in an online concert @Phonos together with other pieces for pianist without instrument. A great program worth watching!

17 June 2020 | hide to show | Nadar | DeSIngle Antwerp

As expected the premiere of hide to show was postponed. Let’s see how long this “situation” goes on and when the concert halls will be allowed to open the doors again. We had one very promising rehearsal, it was actually more a tech tryout (see photo). I am looking forward very much to go on practising.

13 March 2020 | mimikry | EW-4 | Gare Du Nord Basel

this is maybe the last contemporary music concert before Corona. The trip to Basel was kind of weird already and after my return the lock-down came immediately. The concert was a very special experience. It was very intense in a positive way even though there was not really much audience due to Covid. I will never forget this event. The brave musicians played a great concert and a really amazing version of mimikry.

07 March 2020 | caravan | Spółdzielnia Muzyczna | Sala Kameralna

The ensemble for contemporary music with this – for me – unspeakable name is the ensemble of Martyna Zakrzewska in Warsaw (see photo). She performed a really wonderful version of caravan together with Barbara Mglej, Paulina Woś and Aleksander Wnuk. Piotr Peszat did the electronics. See the video here.

16 January 2020 | Key Jane | Elisa Medinilla with Nadar Ensemble | Esslingen

Eventually Key Jane comes back to South-Germany. The performance is in Esslingen, close to Stuttgart, where Gwenaelle Rouger played the first Key Jane version. I will update soon, where exactly the performance will take place.

10 January 2020 | caravan | Ensemble Decoder | Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

UUUuuuuh Elphie. Great concert with Emilio Guim, Andreas Eduardo Frank, Claudia Rohrmoser (visuals) and Mieko Suzuki. Looking forward a lot!

17-19 December 2019 | exit to enter | ensemble leminiscate | Zürich - Basel - Biel

The Basel based ensemble leminiscate plays exit to enter 3 times. And Andreas E. Frank managed to use the new 64bit PD on a Mac for the first time. Thanks Andy!!

15 November 2019 | Key Jane | Jenifer Hymer | resonanzraum Hamburg

Key Jane will be part of the toypiano-weekend in Hamburg, together with pieces by Eggert and Filidei.

13 November 2019 | caravan | Ensemble Garage | Dampfzentrale Bern

Great and matching venue for caravan #10 !

08 November | along | RADARensemble | Klangwerkstatt Berlin

Great to be played @Klangwerkstatt and great to see the festival alive and growing !!

03 November 2019 | Key Jane | Elisa Medinilla with Nadar Ensemble | Concergebouw Brugge

Elisa Medinlla goes on performing Key Jane in Brugge in the Doppelgänger-Program together with pieces by Simon Steen-Andersen and Jessie Marino.

15 October 2019 | caravan | Ensemble Garage | Gaida-Festival

Garage Eastern Tour also stops in Vilnius :)

28 September 2019 | exit to enter | NADAR | Musica Festival Strasburg

The exit to enter story goes on in Straßburg. Exit to enter is from 2013 and my last composition still running with PD. I hope my old laptop will never die :)

30 July | Key Jack | Frederik Croene | wonderfeel

Without Frederik, Key Jack wouldn’t exist. He is the guy who commissioned it and helped so much to realise my most successful solo composition. in July 2019 he performs the first outdoor version at the wonderfeel festival in Netherlands.

29 Mai | Key Jack | Magnus Loddgard | Komische Oper Berlin

With Magnus Loddgard, for the first time a conductor will play Key Jack. Actually it is an interestng question for me, if Key Jack has to be played by a pianist. Dear friends in Berlin, if you are interested to go, I would be happy to receive some news about this concert with other pieces by Moritz Eggert and Christoph Breidler.

24 Mai 2019 | caravan | Ensemble Garage | Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen

24 Mai 2019 | Die Zwei | Ensemble Garage | Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen

Ensemble Garage will play caravan and Die Zwei again in this very special concert in the famous chateau close to Hannover.

18 April 2019 | Key Jack | Ernst Surberg with Ensemble Mosaik | Sonemus Festival Sarajewo

Ernst is a perfect Key Jack! Don’t miss this performance if you are around.

27 March 2019 | Key Jane | Elisa Medinilla with Nadar Ensemble | Klarafestival Brussels

Elisa Medinlla goes on performing Key Jane in Brussels. This will the first time I will see her playing the piece. I am looking forward a lot!

The impression on the photo shows Gwenaelle Rouger performing Key Jane in Hamburg. Soon there will be brandnew photos with Elisa.

23 March | Key Jane | Haize Lizarazu I mediaestruch Barcelona

Yeah, Key Jane in Barcelona! Haize is presenting a very interesting program focussed on the hands of a pianist. Key Jane seems to match perfectly.

23 March | Die Zwei | Ensemble Garage I Kunstzentrum Hellerau

After a longer absence Die Zwei will be performed in Hellerau in a great program curated by Brigitta Muntendorf.

She calls it “Keep quiet and dance”. Here’s the complete program.

4 March 2019 | Key Jane | Elisa Medinilla with Nadar Ensemble | Festival DME Seia Protugal

Yes, that’s me trying Key Jack in my studio. In the concert fortunately you will see Elisa Medinilla performing :-)

14 and 15 February 2019 | caravan | Ensemble Container | Factoria Javon Badajoz

Ensemble Container performs caravan for the first time. There will be two performances on different days in the X Cyclo de Musica Actual.

17 January 2019 | String Jack | Spectra Ensemble | Zebrastraat Gent

The Spectra Ensemble curated the program Mémoires Vives. It’s about video in contemporary music presented in a very special place in Gent: Zebrastraat.

13 January 2019 | along | Radar Ensemble : Johannes Öllinger | Akademie der Künste Hamburg

Second performance of along by Johannes Öllimger in an interesting program with the Ensemble Radar called and about “Doubles”.

17 November 2018 | Key Jane | Malgorzata Walentynowicz | audio art festival Krakow

Malgorzata Walentynowicz is playing Key Jane again in Krakow in the famous audio art festival curated by Marek Choloniewski.

27 October 2018 | Und Sechs | Contemporary Ensemble | Neo Arte Gdansk

Und Sechs is a piece for six instruments with fixed media stereo tape. I composed Und Sechs in 2000. It was the 4th piece of the number series and the last one before I started to work with video. Beides it is the starting point of my approach towards pop music.

21 October 2018 | caravan | Ensemble d’Art & Neopercusion | Rafel Festival Valencia

Two spanish ensembles join to perform caravan in Valencia and in Madrid.

17 October 2018 | along | Kymatic Ensemble : Yaron Deutsch | Club Pluton Moscow

Yaron Deutsch, who commissioned my guitar piece along in 2011, will perform it in Pluton: Kymatic in Moscow. And the Kymatik Ensemble plays Karaoke Rebranng! Watch the trailer.

09 October 2018 | Die Drei | Neue Vocalsolisten | Theaterhaus Stuttgart

The concert in the Theaterhaus in Stuttgart will start again with Die Drei. It is one of my rare pices without electronics. The first performance with soprano instead of counter tenor in Barcelona has been a pleasure and the singers perform this demanding composition very very well! Pass by if you can!

09 October 2018 | Doppel | crossing lines | Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Together with transit and Die Drei, Lluisa Espigolé (photo) and Mireilla Vendrell, the pianists of Crossing Lines, perform Doppel for 2 pianos with live-av. They did a great job in Barcelona in March. I am very happy to see it again in the concert in Stuttgart.

15 September 2018 | String Jack | Dirk Wietheger | ICE Krakow Congress Center

Dirk Wietheger is playing String Jack again. This time in the huge congress hall in Krakow. 

Here you find a link to the program.

14 September 2018 | Key Jane | Elisa Medinilla with Nadar Ensemble | Kunstraum 34 Stuttgart

Finally Elisa Medinilla is playing Key Jane in the famous Doppelganger project of Nadar. And she is playing it in Stuttgart in the cellars of Kunstraum 34 where I had one of my first performances with electronics a much too long time ago.

03 March 2018 | Neue Vocalsolisten | auditori Barcelona 

The concert in Auditori in Barcelona will start with Die Drei. It is one of my rare pices without electronics and it has not been performed since 2003. So this will be a trip in the past for me. Actually it is also a first performance as the part for counter tenor will be replaced by soprano.