Compositions (Selection)
News:
- new composition videos on YouTube:
- Dialogues for guitar & double bass (or violoncello)
- Trombone Octet
- Transitions & Variations for trombone octet
- ... thoughts are wandering ... . Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano
- Metamorphoses. Variations for orchestra
- My "Variations on a Theme by Pergolesi" for oboe, cor Anglais, bassoon &
contrabassoon had their world premiere at the 47th annual conference of the
"International Double Reed Society" (IDRS) in Granada (Spain), on August 30,
2018.
In February 2019 they were played in a final exam of chamber music at
the Music College Karlsruhe (Musikhochschule Karlsruhe), Germany.
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Metamorphoses. Variations for Orchestra (9')
picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bs / 4 hns, 3 tr, 3 trb / timp, cymb, snare dr, woodbl, guiro / strings
→ YouTube
Chamber Music & Solo Pieces:
a) Wind
"... thoughts are wandering ..."
Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano (15') → YouTube
Just a Joke for clarinet & bassoon (3'30') → YouTube
Woodwind Quintet (fl, ob, clar, hn, bs) (3 movements, 13')
→ YouTube
Three Pieces for Woodwind Quartet (fl, ob, clar, bs)
(14') → YouTube
Variations on a Theme by Pergolesi for oboe, cor Anglais,
bassoon & contrabassoon (15') → YouTube
Moods for brass quintet (2 tr, hn, trb, tb) (4 movements, 12')
→ YouTube
Toccata capricciosa for woodwind octet → YouTube
(2 fl, 2 ob, 2 clar, 2 bs) (13') Original: piano four hands
Horn Quartet (also as trio version; commissionend work for
the horn class of Musikschule Balingen/Württ.) (3 movements, 14')
→ YouTube
Trumpet Quartet (3 movements, 10') → YouTube
Trombone Octet (ATTB - ATTB) (3 movements, 15') → YouTube
Transitions & Variations for trombone octet
(ATTB-ATTB) (9')
b) Strings, Guitar, Piano
Three Caprices for violin solo (10') → YouTube
(also as version for viola)
String Quartet (4 movements, 23') YouTube: → 1+2 , → 3+4
Five Miniatures for Violoncello & Double Bass (8') → YouTube
Dialogues for guitar und double bass (18') → YouTube
Double Bass Quartet (3 movements, 13')
Little Violin Trio for Advanced Learners (4 movements, 7')
Toccata capricciosa for piano four hands (13') → YouTube
Vocal works:
"Invictus" for mixed chorus & piano → YouTube
on a poem by W. E. Henley (from the same titled film about
Nelson Mandela). In memoriam Nelson Mandela. (8')
Five Musical Aphorisms by Wilhelm Busch
for mixed chorus & piano (11') → YouTube
Neruda Songs for baritone & piano
(songs on texts from "20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair"
by Pablo Neruda) (22')
Gloria for mixed chorus & organ or 3 trp + trb (7')
Motets for mixed chorus a cappella:
- Hohelied der Liebe (aus 1. Korinther 13) (8')
- Psalm 23 "Der Herr ist mein Hirte, mir wird nichts
mangeln" (6')
- Psalm 130 "Aus der Tiefe, Herr, rufe ich zu dir" (6')
Arrangements:
Five Beatles songs for woodwind quintet (fl, ob, cl, hn, bs)
Suite from George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess"
for cello sextet (25')