2025
2024
21-09-2024. International Symposium. The Village Trip Festival.
For the Symposium of the International Ekmelic Music Society andThe Microtonal Village, organized by Águstin Castilla-Ávilla, as part of The Village Trip Festival in New York City I researched ancient tuning systems and the application of the Kirnberger#2 temperament in Lou Harrison's Piano Concerto.
17-04-2024. Khyma Duo. Laboratorio Electrónico.
"Cold Welding" for Oboe, Saxophone and Electronics, was premiered in April 2024 in Alte Schmiede Kunstverein, Wien. Further performances in May 2024 in Zurich and in Bern.
15-03-2024. Festival Imago Dei Krems. Klangraum Minoritenkirche.
For the Imago Dei Krems festival I created a composition for a large ensemble, playback and live video. It was premiered on March 15, 2024 in the Minoritenkirche in Krems.
05-03-2024. Gesprächskonzert in der Nationalbibliothek, Palais Mollard, Musiksalon.
At the concert in the music salon of the Austrian National Library in cooperation with the IMAGO DEI Krems festival and the Loisiarte, the piano trio "Do Snowflakes Get Colder When They Touch Each Other?" was performed by Platypus as well as the piano composition "SIEBEN, SINNEN" and an excerpt from "Darkness, unveiled" - the violin cadenza - Benedikt Lodes also moderated the evening and I was allowed to talk about myself and the pieces.
23-02-2024. Do Snowflakes Get Colder – Alte Schmiede, Wien, Platypus Ensemble.
The first concert in 2024 was with Platypus Ensemble and the premiere of the Piano Trio “Do Snowflakes Get Colder, When They Touch Each Other” as well as another performance of my piano composition “SIEBEN, SINNEN”, interpreted by Jaime Wolfson.
2023
02-07-2023. Small is Beautiful.
As part of the international ekmelic music society's symposium "Small is Beautiufl" I gave a lecture at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg about Arabic maqam music as inspiration contemporary music e.g. in Cerha's string quartet No. 1 "Maqam" and generally about quarter-tone systems, e.g. that of Alois Hába.
03-05-2023. Palimpsest. Monochrom. Music and Painting. Ensemble N.
The premiere of the commissioned work for Ensemble N took place on May 3rd, 2023 at Mi Barrio in Vienna. Further performance on November 30th, 2023 in the Kaisersaal (piano gallery) in Vienna.
2022
12-12-2022. Big Band Event. Austrian Jazz Composers Orchestra alias Nouvelle Cuisine. Porgy & Bess.
The musical year 2022 ended brilliantly with the Big Band Event by the media composers of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Porgy & Bess, organized by Christian Mühlbacher, interpreted by the Austrian Jazz Composer's Orchestra aka Nouvelle Cuisine. It was my first composition for Big Band and it was a lot of fun to conduct the piece "12 Blind Monkeys Eating A Poem" with such a great Big Band.
26-11-2022. Crossroads Festival 2022. Ensemble Chromoson.
In 2022 I was selected for the Crossroads Festival and Ensemble Chromoson. The premiere of my work "Mania" took place on November 26th in Salzburg, another performance on November 27th in Innsbruck.
09-05-2022. Begegnung Neue Musik.
The premiere of my work for large ensemble "Listen, my dearest, hear the sweet night march" took place in May 2022 as part of the concert "Begegnung Neue Musik" at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. The concert was directed by Jaime Wolfson.
11-03-2022. 12 Ton. Dialog der Generationen.
My journey with works of graphic notation and improvisation began with the concert as part of the 12 Ton series, curated by Schayan Kazemi, together with the former Ensemble Mobile Wien. The concert took place on 11.03.2022 in Brick-15, Vienna.
2021
25-09-2021. Makula. Stimmgold Vokalensemble.
In 2021 with "Makula" I recieved a prize at the "Unternehmen Gegenwart" composition competition for vocal ensemble. The composition was performed by Stimmgold Vokalensemble during the Regensburger Chamber Music Festival.