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NEWS & CURRENT PROJECTS •
2024
I am currently composing the music for an upcoming Disney+ series with fellow composer Johannes Vogel. The series is scheduled to premiere in autumn 2025. More information will be shared soon.
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I have been commissioned by the Vienna State Ballet to compose a ballet with choreography by Robert Binet for the 2025/26 season opening of the Vienna State Opera’s new hall, NEST.
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My new album A BAG OF MARBLES featuring 13 pieces for solo piano, released by Soundcreation, is now available on all major streaming platforms. Exclusive animated canvases that accompany each piece are available on Spotify. Listen here.
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The Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Västerås Sinfonietta commissioned a violin concerto for violinist Ava Bahari. In addition to the music I composed a set of complementary scents and visuals scenes that will be projected during the performances. The concerto has been published by Universal Edition and will be premiered in September 2025 in Örebro, Sweden, by Ava Bahari and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Nicolas Ellis.
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Some of my artworks, including both - paintings and audio-visual works, were exhibited in Vienna at Künstlerhaus’ exhibition WUNDERKAMMER (28.06.-29.09.2024), curated by Günther Oberhollenzer.
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My String Quartet No. 1 was premiered by the Con Brio String Quartet at the National Institute of Music in San José, Costa Rica on June 4th. They performed the piece again on June 9th at the Museo del Jade.
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Violinist Mari Lee, who premiered Perpetuo in New York in 2022, performed the piece in Hingham, MA, on April 7th as part of Atlantic Symphony Orchestra’s 23/24 season program.
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A selection of my paintings were part of the exhibition Accrochage (06.03.-13.04.2024) at FORUM KUNST contemporary in Millstatt, Austria.
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Perpetuo (for solo violin) was performed by Laura Llozi on February 10th in Vienna, Austria.
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My composition Olfactospheres, a colourful catalogue of ten movements with complementary visual and olfactory components for large symphony orchestra, has been published by Universal Edition. More information here.
2023
Harp virtuoso Elisabeth Plank will be performing my rose-toned fragment in Berlin on November 29th.
Her performance of my piece in Gödöllö, Hungary on October 1st 2023 has been recorded by the Hungarian radio.
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I have been invited to do a keynote talk for Antwerp Symphony Orchestra’s symposium on Synesthesia in Classical Music. In my talk Aesthetic Alchemy - Transcendence of Artistic Spheres I shared my own synesthetic experiences and how they influence and shape my multidisciplinary art practice and music composition. The symposium took place before the orchestra’s performance of Promethée, le poème du feu by Scriabin in a spectacular version with a light installation by Antoine Goldschmidt on November 25th at the Queen Elizabeth hall in Antwerp, Belgium.
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For Your GRAMMY® Consideration
My album Kaleidoscope (performed by Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Johannes Vogel, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London) is up for: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Best Engineered Album (Classical), Best Immersive Audio Album
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My EP Olfactospheres for symphony orchestra has been released by Soundcreation on September 11th. Listen here.
The performance material has been published by Universal Edition. Get the music here.
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My album Kaleidoscope has been released by Soundcreation on July 14th. It features seven of my original compositions, two with my own playing and five performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Johannes Vogel at Abbey Road Studios in London.
All works are published by Universal Edition. Kaleidoscope is available on Spotify and various other streaming platforms.
Two very special mix versions (Dolby Atmos & Binaural) are released and available at the Soundcreation store.
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Five Miniatures for bassoon, string quartet and electronics, was premiered by Martin Kuuskmann and the Risør Festival Strings on July 2nd at Risør Chamber Music Festival in Norway.
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Last year I wrote a rose-toned fragment for harp virtuoso Elisabeth Plank. She premiered the piece in Tartu (Estonia) on July 10th and performed it in Saaremaa (Estonia), Vienna, Spielfeld (Austria) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) this summer.
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New York-based ensemble CreArtBox, who premiered Heart Meditation in NYC last year, will be going on tour with the piece in Spain this summer. More information here. They will be recording the piece for their upcoming album.
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Bergstrom Kollektiv performed Reset and Abstract Dualism (world premiere) in Erfurt on May 10th and 14th. More information here.
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I was commissioned to compose a duo for violin and cello by feet become ears, a contemporary chamber music series in Germany, for their 2022/23 season. Kontai Ensemble performed the piece Hall of Mirrors on April 23rd in Leipzig and April 27th in Munich. The Munich concert was recorded by BR Klassik. The piece is published by Universal Edition.
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Last year Norwegian violinist Ingerine Dahl commissioned Sei solo la Luce for violin and electronics. She premiered the piece with Nils Henrik Asheim on April 15th in Stavanger, Norway. She will be recording the piece for her upcoming album.
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Last year violinist Anne Akiko Meyers commissioned na brodu, a piece for solo violin and electronics. She will premiere it this year.
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A few of my paintings are part of the exhibition Illusion - Delusion, curated by Andrea K. Schlehwein, at FORUM KUNST contemporary in Millstatt, Austria. Opening is on March 5th 2023 at 11am with a performance of dancer Maria Mavridou to my music. The exhibition is going from 05.03. - 06.05.2023