Tongue of the Land (2026)
I recently finished composing Tongue of the Land, a concerto for orchestra with carnyx. Commissioned by Roche as the 13th Roche Commission for Lucerne Festival, the ...
I recently finished composing Tongue of the Land, a concerto for orchestra with carnyx. Commissioned by Roche as the 13th Roche Commission for Lucerne Festival, the ...
I had a truly lovely day today, taking in the news that I’ve won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, for my cello concerto A Sutured ...
Hot on the heels of the BR-Klassik CD, NMC Recordings have released a wonderful album collecting together some of my key pieces for string quartet and ...
I’m intensely grateful to all at Musica Viva Munich: Winrich Hopp, Pia Steigerwald ❤️, Giovanni Michelini; to photographer Astrid Ackermann; all at BR-Klassik including Thomas Becker; ...
a favourite poem by Hafez… All the Hemispheres Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance ...
‘Sonorous Body’, a composition that is brought to life by the wild adventures of the solo clarinet. Physiology meets soul and tone meets color as the piece ends in consummate splendor. Raul D’Gama Rose, All About Jazz ‘Wild adventures of the solo clarinet’ – I like to think of instruments as personages in some way – characters ...