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17 September, 2025 – RTV Slovenia
PREMIERE: NEW WORK
for orchestra
18 May, 2025 – Buenos Aires
collective imaginary
for 8 musicians and electronics
17 May, 2025 – Buenos Aires
ARGENTINE PREMIERE: collective imaginary
for 8 musicians and electronics
16 May, 2025 – Maison de l'Ile-de-France, Paris
FRENCH PREMIERE: state of matter
for saxophone, accordion, piano, percussion, cello and electronics
21 March, 2025 – Gare du Nord Basel
colours are like memories of other colours II
for saxophone, accordion, violin & electronics
20 March, 2025 – Walcheturm Zurich
colours are like memories of other colours II
for saxophone, accordion, violin & electronics
20 March, 2025 – Musica Aperta Winterthur
RGBA
for saxophone quartet
19 March, 2025 – Musikverein Wien
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE: Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
19 February, 2025 – Close Encounters Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
GEORGIAN PREMIERE: free will generator
for solo cello
10 February, 2025 – Cafeteatret Oslo
NORWEGIAN PREMIERE: colours are like memories of other colours II
for saxophone, accordion, violin & electronics
10 February, 2025 – HSLU Lucerne
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello and electronics
Sascha Armbruster, Anne-Marie Hölscher, Emilio Guim
3 February, 2025 – SMC Lausanne
state of matter
for saxophone, accordion, piano, percussion, cello and electronics
24 January, 2025 – Neubad Lucerne
state of matter
for saxophone, accordion, piano, percussion, cello and electronics
17 January, 2025 – Walcheturm Zurich
PREMIERE: state of matter
for saxophone, accordion, piano, percussion, cello and electronics
9 January, 2025 – Poslušalnice, Ljubljana
presence, absence, degree
for accordion and electronics
13 November, 2024 – Raum 236 Zurich
free will generator
for solo cello
11 November, 2024 – Gare du Nord Basel
PREMIERE: free will generator
for solo cello
1 November, 2024 – PROGR Bern
the great silence
for chamber ensemble & electronics
31 October, 2024 – H95 Basel
the great silence
for chamber ensemble & electronics
20 October, 2024 – Curva Minore Palermo
RGBA
for saxophone quartet
19 October, 2024 – Tinni Tinni Arts Club Catania
ITALIAN PREMIERE: RGBA
for saxophone quartet
5 September, 2024 – Studio LOOS Den Haag
DUTCH PREMIERE: colours are like memories of other colours II
for saxophone, accordion, violin & electronics
3 September, 2024 – Ljubljana
SLOVENIAN PREMIERE: colours are like memories of other colours II
for saxophone, accordion, violin & electronics
21 August, 2024 – Basel
PREMIERE: colours are like memories of other colours II
for saxophone, accordion, violin & electronics
After neglecting this page for the past almost two years, I am now trying to keep it reasonably up-to-date.
If you are performing one of my works and would like me to add your concert to this page, please email me.
25 November, 2023 – Sound Plasma Berlin
RGBA
for saxophone quartet
3 September, 2023 – Hamburg
presence, absence, degree
for accordion & electronics
23 August, 2023 – Concours Nicati, Lucerne
feuille volante
for solo alto flute
Rebecca Blau
Hello world. I am not regularly updating this page at the moment--apologies to all the wonderful musicians who are performing my music.
4 March, 2023 – Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit
the sea isn't rising, the ground is sinking
for soprano, saxophone, piano, percussion & electronics
3 March, 2023 – TonKunst Konstanz
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
Jonathan Chazan // Ina Callejas // Eden Sekulović
20 February, 2023 – SMC Lausanne
Tombeau de Clément Ader
for 8 musicians and electronics
7 February, 2023 – Lucerne
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
20 January, 2023 – Nice
FRENCH PREMIERE: Radotements avec citation
for solo trombone
Benny Sluchin
11 December, 2022 – Basel
collective imaginary
for 8 musicians and electronics
4 December, 2022 – Bern
collective imaginary
for 8 musicians and electronics
1 December, 2022 – Boswil (CH)
PREMIERE: collective imaginary
for 8 musicians and electronics
18 & 19 November, 2022 – Sonic Ocean, Stuttgart
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
Nikola Lutz // Olivia Steimel // Céline Papion // Eveline Vervliet
12 November, 2022 – Live broadcast on France Musique at the Maison de la Radio France
FRENCH PREMIERE: RGBA
for saxophone quartet
29 September, 2022 – Ljubljana
SLOVENIAN PREMIERE: élan vital
for flute, clarinet, saxophone & piano
Ensemble Neofonía
24 September, 2022 – Ultima Festival, Oslo
NORWEGIAN PREMIERE: On the celestial hierarchy
for 7 musicians
28 May, 2022 – Geneva
Tombeau de Clément Ader
for 8 musicians and electronics
23 May, 2022 – Ljubljana
SLOVENIAN PREMIERE: Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
Ensemble Neofonía
25 April, 2022 – SMC Lausanne
turn me on, dead man
for mezzo-soprano, live electronics and video
Anne-May Krüger // Andreas Eduardo Frank
12 February, 2022 – Oslo
NORWEGIAN PREMIERE: The Grammar of Shadows
for electric guitar, harp, piano and cello
Ellen Fallowfield // Seth Josel // Gunnhildur Einarsdottir // Sanae Yoshida
28 January, 2022 – Basel
PREMIERE: The Grammar of Shadows
for electric guitar, harp, piano and cello
Ellen Fallowfield // Seth Josel // Gunnhildur Einarsdottir // Sanae Yoshida
16 November, 2021 – Bern
RGBA
for saxophone quartet
15 November, 2021 – Zurich
RGBA
for saxophone quartet
14 November, 2021 – Basel
SWISS PREMIERE: RGBA
for saxophone quartet
2 November, 2021 – Tel Aviv
ISRAELI PREMIERE: RGBA
for saxophone quartet
20 October, 2021 – Klagenfurt
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE: élan vital
for flute, clarinet, saxophone & piano
Ensemble Neofonía
11 September, 2021 – Midt i Marts Festival - Hjørring, Denmark
DANISH PREMIERE: Feuille Volante
for alto flute
9-19 September, 2021 – Zeiträume, Basel
For the duration of the Zeiträume Festival, a multimedia installation by Linus Riegger, Basil Huwler, Clemens Fiechter & Arev Imer based on material from Portal Fantasies (2019) will be open @ Feuerschiff Gannet am Klybeckquai.
9 September, 2021 – Festival Ensemble(s), Paris
FRENCH PREMIERE: élan vital
for flute, clarinet, saxophone & piano
28 June, 2021 – Close Encounters Festival - Georgia
GEORGIAN PREMIERE: Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
25 May, 2021 – St. Petersburg – ReMusik Festval
RUSSIAN PREMIERE: presence, absence, degree
for accordion & electronics
Sergej Thirkov&ndash // Nikolay Popov
29 April, 2021 – Basel
turn me on, dead man
for mezzo-soprano, live electronics and video
Anne-May Krüger // Andreas Eduardo Frank
27 April, 2021 – Zurich
PREMIERE: turn me on, dead man
for mezzo-soprano, live electronics and video
Anne-May Krüger // Andreas Eduardo Frank
31 March, 2021 – Klagenfurt CANCELLED
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE: élan vital
for flute, clarinet, saxophone & piano
Ensemble Neofonía
27 March, 2021 – Geneva
PREMIERE: Tombeau de Clément Ader
for 8 musicians and electronics
16 March, 2021 – Unerhörte Musik, Berlin
GERMAN PREMIERE: Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
14 November, 2020 – Rainy Days, Luxembourg CANCELLED
Shadow Art II
for flute, vocalist & electronics
13 November, 2020 – Neue und unentdeckte Musik Baden (CH)
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
8 November, 2020 – Geneva CANCELLED
PREMIERE: La Géometrie d'après Descartes
for orchestra
13 October 2020, Alte Feuerwache Cologne
GERMAN PREMIERE: the great silence
for flute, saxophone, piano, percussion & electronics
1 September, 2020 – Unerhörte Musik, Berlin
Shadow Art II
for flute, vocalist & electronics
September, 2020 – BIFEM, Bendigo (Australia) CANCELLED
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE: Colours are like memories of other colours
for string octet & fixed-media playback
Argonaut Quartet + Neo Quartet
6 July, 2020 – ReMusik, St. Petersburg LIVESTREAM
Shadow Art II
for flute, vocalist & electronics
29 May, 2020 – Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik LIVESTREAM
Shadow Art II
for flute, vocalist & electronics
29 May, 2020 – Neue und unentdeckte Musik, Baden (CH) CANCELLED
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
23 May, 2020 – Freiburg (DE) CANCELLED
GERMAN PREMIERE: Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
26 April, 2020 – Contra-Punkt Meilen (CH) CANCELLED
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
9 April, 2020 – Illzach (FR) CANCELLED
FRENCH PREMIERE: RGBA
for saxophone quartet
28 March 2020 – Centre Cultural Bernat, Sueca (Spain) CANCELLED
SPANISH PREMIERE: the great silence
for flute, saxophone, piano, percussion & electronics
1 March 2020, Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof Basel
PREMIERE: the great silence
for flute, saxophone, piano, percussion & electronics
SWISS PREMIERE: the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there
for flute, alto saxophone & piano
25 February, 2020 – Northwestern University, Illinois CANCELLED
duet/anagram
for two tenor saxophones & electronics
21 February, 2020 – Bowling Green State University, Ohio CANCELLED
duet/anagram
for two tenor saxophones & electronics
Landman/Stadler Saxophone Duo
1 January, 2020
Very happy to begin work with fellow jury members Dieter Ammann, Franck Bedrossian, Uli Fussenegger and Katharina Rosenberger on picking the
winner for the third edition neuverBand's Construct/Radiate Composition Competition. Results announced in late February!
9 November, 2019 – Theater am Gleis Winterthur (Switzerland)
On the celestial hierarchy
for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola & cello
Feuille Volante
for alto flute
Ensemble TAG
20 October, 2019 – La Voirie, Biel/Bienne
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
Trio Saetenwind
18 October, 2019 – Quba Basel
Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
Trio Saetenwind
18 October, 2019 – Tinguely Museum Basel
SWISS PREMIERE: Inhabiting the Vanishing
for flute, saxophone, piano, percussion, electric guitar, violin & cello
Ensemble Vertixe Sonora
21 & 22 September, 2019 – Zeiträume, Basel
PREMIERE: Portal Fantasies
– a musical, architectural and literary promenade for two actors, flute, clarinet, accordion, percussion, viola & electronics; created in collaboration with Barbara Piatti, Lukas Kubik & Mirjam Smejkal.
neuverBand Ensemble für Neue Musik Basel
16 September, 2019 – AFEKT Festival, Berlin
Shadow Art II
for flute, voice & electronics
Sirje Viise // Monika Mattiesen // Tammo Sumera
13 September, 2019 – Musikfestival Bern
PREMIERE: Astatine
for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
Trio Saetenwind
9 September, 2019 – ONO Bern
Shadow Art
for voice, recorders and electronics
Ums'n'Jip
8 September, 2019 – Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich
Shadow Art
for voice, recorders and electronics
Ums'n'Jip
5 September, 2019 – Unternehmen Mitte Basel
Shadow Art
for voice, recorders and electronics
Ums'n'Jip
4 September, 2019 – Zeughaus Kultur Brig-Glis
Shadow Art
for voice, recorders and electronics
Ums'n'Jip
23 June, 2019 – Faubourg 12, Strasbourg
PREMIERE: the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there
for flute, alto saxophone & piano
Ensemble l'Imaginaire
4 May, 2019 – World Music Days, Tallinn
ESTONIAN PREMIERE: Shadow Art II
for bass flute, vocalist & electronics
Sirje Aleksandra Viise // Monika Mattiesen // Tammo Sumera
16 April, 2019 – SONEMUS Festival 2019, Sarajevo
BOSNIAN PREMIERE: Third Station (1960)
for bass flute, accordion & trombone
SONEMUS Ensemble
14 April, 2019 – Sounding Now Festival 2019, Singapore
SINGAPORE PREMIERE: duet/anagram
for two tenor saxophones & electronics
Landman/Stadler Saxophone Duo
23 March, 2019 – Música y Vanguardia, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Spain
duet/anagram
for two tenor saxophones & electronics
David Delgado // Javier Rodríguez
15 February, 2019 – Klangraum Festival, Stuttgart
GERMAN PREMIERE: Shadow Art II
for bass flute, vocalist & electronics
radotements avec citation
for solo trombone
19 November, 2018 – Rdeči Dvorani Mestne hiše, Ljubljana
PREMIERE: V Prostranem Morju Sanj
for flute, violin & piano
Nina Prešiček // Anja Clift // Branko Brezavšček
15 October, 2018 – Santiago de Compostella, Spain
PREMIERE: Inhabiting the vanishing
for flute, saxophone, electric guitar, piano, percussion, violin & cello
Vertixe Sonora
27 May, 2018 – Faubourg 12 Strasbourg
PREMIERE: élan vital
for flute, clarinet, saxophone & piano
Ensemble l'Imaginaire
7 April, 2018 – Unternehmen Mitte, Basel
PORTRAIT CONCERT:
Radotements avec citation
for solo trombone
Presence, absence, degree
for accordion & electronics
Feuille Volante
for solo alto flute
Shadow Art II
for bass flute, vocalist & electronics
Third Station 1960
for bass flute, trombone & accordion
Anja Clift // Jon Roskilly // Olivia Steimel
1 January, 2018
Very happy to begin work with fellow jury members Liza Lim, Erik Oña, Marcus Weiss and Uroš Rojko on picking the winner of the second
edition neuverBand's Construct/Radiate Composition Competition. Results announced at the end of January!
19 December, 2017 – IBeam Brooklyn
radotements avec citation
for solo trombone
William Lang
19 December, 2017 – Santiago de Compostela -- CGAC concert series Music and Art: Sound Correspondences
PREMIERE: The sea isn't rising, the ground is sinking
for soprano, saxophone, piano, percussion & electronics
Ensemble Vertixe Sonora
18 December, 2017 – Musikwissenschaftlichen Institus der Universität Basel
Third Station (1960)
for bass flute, trombone & accordion
Ensemble Zone Experimental
22 November, 2017 – Ackermannshof Basel
Shadow Art
for voice, recorders and electronics
Ums'n'Jip
21 November, 2017 – Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
Shadow Art
for voice, recorders and electronics
Ums'n'Jip
20 November, 2017 – ONO Bern
Shadow Art
for voice, recorders and electronics
Ums'n'Jip
19 November, 2017 – Zeughaus Kultur, Brig-Glis (SWITZERLAND)
PREMIERE: Shadow Art
for voice, recorders and electronics
Ums'n'Jip
23 October, 2017 – Goldsmith's University, London
radotements avec citation
for solo trombone
Jon Roskilly
20 October, 2017 – Weisslich, London
UK PREMIERE: radotements avec citation
for solo trombone
Jon Roskilly
30 June, 2017 – International Trombone Festival – University of the Redlands, California
PREMIERE: radotements avec citation
for solo trombone
William Lang
15 June, 2017 – Longy School of Music of Bard College
PRE-PREMIERE: radotements avec citation
for solo trombone
William Lang
2 June, 2017 – Basel – Zeiträume Festval
SWISS PREMIERE: presence, absence, degree
for accordion & electronics
Olivia Steimel
24 May, 2017 – Toronto -- Keys, Wind and Strings Festival Concert
CANADIAN PREMIERE: presence, absence, degree
for accordion & electronics
Olivia Steimel
14 February, 2017 – Gare du Nord, Basel
the more perfect is the more immaterial
for ensemble
Ensemble Proton
13 February, 2017 – Dampfzentrale, Bern
PREMIERE: the more perfect is the more immaterial
for ensemble
Ensemble Proton
29 December, 2016 – Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
SLOVENIAN PREMIERE: Feuille Volante
for flute
Anja Clift
12 October, 2016 – Basel
duet/anagram
for two tenor saxophones & electronics
Duo Stadler/Landman
11 October, 2016 – Villa Sträuli, Winterthur
PORTRAIT CONCERT:
Feuille Volante
for solo alto flute
Hitoshizuku
for flute & piano
Action Painting
for solo piano
duet/anagram
for two tenor saxophones & electronics
1950C
for solo guitar
Périphérique
for fixed media
presence, absence, degree
for accordion & electronics
Kobe van Cauwenberghe // Anja Clift // Gilles Grimaître // Geoffrey Landman // Patrick Stadler // Olivia Steimel
10 October, 2016 – Biel/Bienne
duet/anagram
for two tenor saxophones & electronics
Duo Stadler/Landman
14 August, 2016
I will be on the jury for the 2017 edition of les Journées Informatiques Musicales at Collègium Musicae, Paris. Looking
forward to discovering some great mixed and acousmatic works by young composers!
16 June, 2016
Very happy to have been awarded a residency at Villa Sträuli in Switzerland, starting September of this year!
3 June, 2016 – Basel
PREMIERE: Objets à réaction poétique
for chamber ensemble (19 performers)
Ensemble Zone Experimental
22 May, 2016 – Fondation Suisse Le Corbusier, Paris
FRENCH PREMIERE: How do you express 'x'?
for flute, viola & harp
Trio Insight
12 April, 2016
Very happy to have been invited to represent Columbia University at University of California, San Diego, in a composer-exchange guest-lecture series.
23 February, 2016 – Unerhörte Musik Berlin
GERMAN PREMIERE: presence, absence, degree
for accordion & electronics
Olivia Steimel
22 January, 2016 – Weimar
PREMIERE: presence, absence, degree
for accordion & electronics
Olivia Steimel
10 November, 2015
Very happy to have been awarded a commission by the wonderful Ensemble Proton Bern
as part of their Protonwerk series. The new piece will be performed in late 2016.
1 & 3 October, 2015 – Expo Milano
PREMIERE: On the Celestial Hierarchy
for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola & cello
Sentieri selvaggi
12 July, 2015 – 17th World Saxophone Congress and Festival, Strasbourg
PREMIERE: Duet/anagram
for two tenor saxophones & electronics
Patrick Stadler // Geoffrey Landman
May 23, 2015 – Ljubljana
qui, dove mezzo son...
for flute solo & chamber ensemble
Anja Brezavšček // Steven Loy // Ensemble Nefonía
27 Febrary, 2015 – Pittsburgh Festival of New Music
1950-C
for solo guitar
Dan Lippel
27 February, 2015 – DiMenna Center, New York
PREMIERE: Colours are like memories of other colours
for string octet
JACK & MIVOS Quartets
8 February, 2015
CD LAUNCH: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe's outstanding release of works for solo guitar by New York City-based composers
Paul Clift, Taylor Brook, Aaron Einbond, Rama Gottfried, Alex Mincek & Christopher Trapani
Carrier Records
10 November, 2014
Very happy to be back at IRCAM to begin a six-month artistic residency. Beginning in February 2015, I will post some updates about my work there at www.paulclift.net/aas
17 September, 2014 – Athens - ICMC/SMC
GREEK PREMIERE: Le Détour Permet le Retour
for string quartet, live-electronics & video projections
AudioStrings Quartet
6 September, 2014 – Chicago–Constellation
Action Painting
for solo piano
Marilyn Nonken
1 August, 2014
I was selected to compose a new work for Sentieri selvaggi to be performed at the Milan Expo 2015 in May, 2015.
6 June, 2014 – Musik Akademie Basel, Grosser Saal
PREMIERE: qui, dove mezzo son...
for flute solo + chamber ensemble
Anja Brezavšček // Mike Svoboda // Ensemble Zone Experimental
18 May, 2014 – Ljubljana
PREMIERE: Orchestrations of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano n°s 11 & 20
for chamber ensemble
Neofonía // Steven Loy
15 April, 2014 – Basel–Chaotic Moebius
PREMIERE: Third Station, 1960
for flute, accordion & trombone
neuverBand Ensemble für neue Musik Basel
unternehmen mitte SAFE -- Gerbergasse 30, 4001 BASEL -- entry CHF20/10
12 April, 2014 – New York–DiMenna Center, Cary Hall
PREMIERE: Sous les pavés
for 13 instruments
Either/OR
Other works by Taylor Brook, Natacha Diels, Alec Hall, Yoshiaki Onishi, Christopher Trapani & Nina Young
23 February, 2014
Very happy to have been awarded a six-month research residency at IRCAM, during which I will further develop software & hardware for
Acoustic-Aggregate-Synthesis.