score & ensemble works

compositions.

my compositions have been performed by leading ensembles throughout europe, asia, and the us, including ensemble mosaik, auditivvokal, hand werk, apartment house, alter ego, ensemble modern, musikfabrik, neue vocalsolisten, and the berliner philharmoniker.

performances at festivals including acht brücken cologne, ultraschall berlin, and donaueschinger musiktage. broadcasts by hr, wdr, swr, deutschlandfunk, and bbc radio 3. portrait cd "nearly-fast" with ensemble mosaik on coviello; further releases on cybele records, müzik hayvanı, and wergo.

recordings · worklist (systematic) · worklist 2015–present

instrumental & ensemble works

1999–2002 / 2026The SelfComposer for sight-reading oboist with laptop. premiere 19.2.2002, festival audible interfaces, kulturbrauerei berlin, simon strasser; new version 2026 for mobile devices on all platforms.
2019devil’s triangle for oboe, saxophone, speaker and playback, 11′30. commissioned by ensemble mosaik, premiere 7.12.2019, acker stadt palast berlin; broadcast deutschlandfunk kultur 7.5.2020.
2016ciascuno avrà i suoi cinque minuti, concertino for piano and ensemble, 5′. finalist in the composition competition of the music biennale zagreb; premiere 26.4.2017, music biennale zagreb, filip fak, piano, biennale ensemble, cond. aleksandar kalajdžić.
2015articolarsi for alto saxophone, 6′30. commissioned by contempohr, universität mozarteum salzburg; premiere 4.6.2016, festival aspekte salzburg, martin losert.
2015I Fiffari for bird-call whistles, flutes, recorders, clarinets, double-bell horn and playback, 24′14. commissioned by raumklänge 2015, premiere 12.6.2015, pulheim-stommeln.
2015Beethovenamstück for piano. contribution to susanne kessel’s “250 piano pieces for beethoven”, premiere 21.6.2016, arp museum rolandseck.
2014aldiladellaldiqua for alto flute, clarinet, violin and violoncello. commissioned by festival acht brücken köln, premiere 30.4.2014, ensemble hand werk.
2012/13Raus auf die Straße! Luft! ¡A la calle! ¡Fuera! for voices, ensemble and playback, evening-length, texts: florian neuner. commissioned by kammerensemble neue musik berlin, premiere 20./22.6.2013, villa elisabeth berlin; argentinian premiere 28.11.2013, teatro san martín, buenos aires.
2011/12stein-sum for mezzo-soprano, viola d’amore and microtonal keyboard, text after gertrude stein. premiere 1.2.2013, kampnagel hamburg, trio scordatura.
2010/11fein … auflösend for flute, clarinet, violoncello and piano. commissioned by kunststiftung nrw.
2008–11SCHLÖSCH for large orchestra.
2009data compression for violin and accordion.
2008nearly – fast for bass clarinet, piano and marimba. commissioned by kölner gesellschaft für neue musik; title piece of the portrait cd with ensemble mosaik, coviello contemporary cov 61117, 2012, studio production hr2-kultur after the portrait concerts 2011 in cologne, frankfurt and berlin.
2006schönes klavierstück for piano. ian pace at the transit festival and the iscm world music days, leuven, 27.10.2012, official contribution of the german section; paris, conservatoire frédéric chopin, 1.2.2014.
2006/07dietro V avanti for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion. commissioned by westdeutscher rundfunk, premiere 3.3.2007, großer sendesaal köln, ensemble alter ego rome; italian premiere festival trattorie, parma 2008, ensemble mosaik.
2005/06… con dolcezza … for flute, clarinet, harp, violoncello, double bass, piano and live electronics. premiere 29.11.2006, festival audible interfaces, kulturbrauerei berlin, ensemble mosaik, cond. enno poppe.
2004dissieme for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and live electronics. commissioned by istituto italiano di cultura köln, premiere there 30.11.2004, ensemble alter ego rome, live electronics harald muenz, recording wdr 3; emufest, conservatorio santa cecilia rome 2009; xviii cim, teatro vittoria turin 2010; selected by an international jury, harvard university studio for electroacoustic composition 2005.
2002articulated strings for harp, guitar, violoncello and live electronics. commissioned by apartment house, recording deutschlandfunk.
2001ope-seynsu. (k)eine Klanginstallation for piano and random cd. commissioned by deutschlandradio, premiere 19.1.2002, festival ultraschall berlin, sfb-sendesaal, hwa-kyung yim.
2001ariche for bass flute and random-controlled cd player, after a text by amelia rosselli. 30 years feedback studio köln, 11.10.2001, carin levine; recording wdr 3.
1995–2001miniaturen for variable chamber ensembles. performances in perugia 1999; festival emergenze, istituto svizzero rome 2000, alter ego, broadcast rai radiotre; spaziomusica cagliari 2003; iic köln 2008.
1999/2000BACH-Maschin’ for two violoncellos, organ and accordion. commissioned by expo 2000 hannover.
1998writing for two players on bass drum and playback. leipzig 1999; feedback cd 3, cybele 960.303.
1996/97ausPlaste in memoriam Franco Evangelisti for clarinet, trombone, violoncello and piano.
1984/85tre schizzi per orchestra. premiere 27.11.1985, philharmonie berlin, forum junger deutscher komponisten der gema-stiftung; berliner philharmonisches orchester, cond. reinhard peters; recording rias berlin.

vocal works

2025merzbus, -a, -um – mit much schmerz, polyphonetic poeTexts for three voices, 15′25. premiere 26.9.2025, festival fragment, kristiansand, sprechbohrer.
2025qarreler, praktigüeß, polyphonetic poeTexts for solo voice, 20′29. artist’s book, verlag klingental, basel; premiere 27.6.2025, basel, harald muenz, voice.
2025dreizehn liebesfuesze, polyphonetic poeTexts.
2024İST – poesie polifonetiche, artist’s book published by kunststiftung nrw in its series “residency workbooks” for the artist residency atelier galata istanbul.
2021normal.zustand for ten voices, text by the composer, 11′30. for auditivvokal dresden, written during a fellowship at künstlerhof schreyahn.
2021» phersu « [ˈpʰeɾsu], melodrammetto per soprano e pianoforte, 8′30. commissioned by klang köln e.v. and kulturamt köln, premiere 15.12.2021, loft köln; anna herbst, stefan thomas.
2019[fundaˈmen defiˈnit] for ten voices, texts from the german constitutional law and the eu charter of fundamental rights, 11′. commissioned by auditivvokal dresden, cond. olaf katzer; premiere 13.9.2019, kreuzkirche hannover; recording deutschlandfunk kultur, 9.11.2019, kulturpalast dresden.
2019Comme vous savez … for five masked vocalists, 10′30. stationen iv – stimmen aus nrw, premiere 29.3.2019, oetker-halle bielefeld.
2017sprech-sage-rede-raum for four spatially distributed groups of speakers and tape. commissioned by kölner musiknacht 2017, premiere at oberlandesgericht köln.
2017des volkes weise. ein spottchor for mixed choir, 2′15. commissioned by auditivvokal dresden for vox populi, premiere 15.9.2017, orchesterzentrum nrw, dortmund.
2016Das kleine Da-da-da for three phonetic voices, 6′30. premiere 21.6.2016, sprengel museum hannover, sprechbohrer.
2007–16Das Zungenbuch, cycle in five movements for three phonetic voices, texts by the composer, florian neuner, christian filips, monika rinck. premieres 2007–2016 in cologne and berlin, sprechbohrer and members of the singakademie berlin.
2014allo studio con Nicola for mezzo-soprano, viola, bass clarinet ad libitum and microtonal keyboard, 4′30. commissioned by trio scordatura, premiere 1.10.2014, orpheus instituut ghent; dutch premiere 29.11.2015, muziekgebouw amsterdam.
2011/12stein-sum for mezzo-soprano, viola d’amore and microtonal keyboard, text after gertrude stein. premiere 1.2.2013, kampnagel hamburg, trio scordatura.
2004 / 2026gedankendzüge – ein polyphonetischer poeText, printed in neue zeitschrift für musik 3/2026, mainz (schott), p. 39.
2001–03SprachProben. Ästhetisch-phonetische Feldnotizen for vocalists, instruments and electronic sounds, ten combinable pieces based on the composer’s own fieldwork on arbëresh and istro-romanian. supported by the forschungspreis nrw; premiere 2003, kunst-station sankt peter köln, broadcast by wdr 3.
2001il filosofo for soprano, clarinet, trumpet and percussion. commissioned by ensemble freon, rome, german-italian exchange sixpack.
1996parkfiguren for singing and speaking voice, text: róža domašcyna. commissioned by deutschlandradio berlin.
1995discAntico for eight voices, texts by francis of assisi and andrea pieroni. selected at the competition praxis der neuen vokalmusik, stuttgart 1996.
1993 / 2026deChiffrAGE for speaker with random-controlled live text generator, software by the composer; versions for two (de[ux]ChiffrAGE) and three speakers (d(r)e(i)ChiffrAGE, 2017 at festival acht brücken köln, sprechbohrer); new version 2026 for mobile devices on all platforms.