Introducing my new band: Vember

I am now the lead guitarist of an Indie pop band called Vember and it feels really good. We are currently composing and rehearsing before heading to the studio in April for the recording of an album that should be released this fall. More informations at http://vembermusic.de/

Première of “La Simplifiée” – Sonata for Violin and Cembalo

The French violinist Raphaëlle Pacault and the Finnish Harpsichordist Aura Visala will première my new piece “La Simplifiée” – Sonate pour violon et clavecin” on the 16th of February in the Kammersaal Friedenau in Berlin. This premiere will occur within the frame of a concert entitled “Upload II: Aus Alt mach Neu” consisting of only brand new pieces played on baroque instruments. This event is presented by the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), more informations at www.udk-berlin.de.

New recordings of my saxophone duets available

Christoph Enzel and Adrian Tully made a nice recording of my 2 saxophone duets, Le Malentendu (2010) for tenor saxophones and Le Consensus (2011) for soprano saxophones. Go to “The Composer” or just click on the players here below to listen to it.

Le Consensus

Le Malentendu

Currently working on Fritz Kalkbrenner’s new album

In 2009, I recorded some guitar and bass lines for 3 tracks of Fritz Kalkbrenner’s album Here today gone tomorrow. The album got released one year ago and was a success with a couple of singles getting quite a lot of radio airplay. A second album will be released in 2012 and I have been hired again to work on the project. It looks like my guitar and my bass should be featured on every track this time and we have just begun with a first 3-days session in the studio. I will keep you posted about this new project.

Première of a piece for Choir and Saxophone quartet

I am currently composing a piece for choir and saxophone quartet based on Psalms from the Bible. The première will occur on the 15th of October in Heilbronn in the Killianskirche, performed by the Vokalensemble Heilbronn and the Clair-Obscur quartet.

Solo show this Friday

I will play a solo-show for the finissage of Karen Linnenkohl, Sabine Linse and Alexander Laudenberg’s exhibit “Subterrania” this Friday at 08:30 pm at Scotty Enterprises (Oranienstr. 46) in Berlin.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital

I will accompany Guy Maddin’s movie “Tales from the Gimli Hospital” on next Friday at 08:30 pm in the RegenbogenKINO in Berlin, playing a smoky bunch of compositions and improvisations on the guitar.

More informations at http://www.regenbogenkino.de/

Premiere of a new piece for 2 soprano saxophones

I am currently working hard on a piece for 2 soprano saxophones that will be premiered on the 24th of May by Christoph Enzel and Adrian Tully in the BKA Theater within the frame of the Unerhörte Musik concerts. The show will start at 08:30 pm.

More informations at www.unerhoerte-musik.de

Premiere of “Germania an ihre Kinder” for 3 female voices

Lotta Hultmark, Kristina Elfversson and Sabine Eyer will perform “Germania an ihre Kinder” on the 2. of May in the Heinrich Böll Foundation to close a theater evening dedicated to Heinrich von Kleist. The work was commissioned by Miriam Sachs for the project Neunmalkleist wich celebrates the jubilee of the German writer and poet who died in 1811.

More informations at www.boell.de

“Bruxelles” – reaching rock music the other way

I haven’t released any guitar track since 2009 and there are two reasons for this. The first one is that “classical” composition and solo-gigs took most of my time, the second one is that I don’t believe in instrumental-rock anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I still do love guitar and rock and am very proud of every song I made but I had to find a way to make further songs that would be more personal, a way that would be closer to my work in the field of “classical” composition.

Bruxelles is basically a piece of experimental music I composed for Treffpunkte (see the composer page) and that I performed for the festival Ankunft: Neue Musik, I took a chance on trying to do something new that would suit me as a guitarist AND as a composer and hope you will like it. You can listen to the studio recording in the guitarist.