Eltamin première!
Some impressions from the première of my piece Eltamin by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on May 28 and 30, conducted by their musical director Ryan Bancroft.
Read the review here
After the first performance of my piece Eltamin by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ryan Bancroft on May 28, 2026, Konserthuset, Stockholm (pics below by Yanan Li)
Pre-concert presentation for the première of my piece Eltamin with Konserthusets chef Susanne Rydén (pic by J Decrock)
Gigs April-May 2026
We’ll start with fantômes, a piece I wrote for Disklavier (a self-playing grand piano) and electronics – we’ll watch a video of the premiere last year in Stockholm (no pianist was injured at the performance!)
fantômes for prepared disklavier by Aurélie Ferrière >>
Then Snømaskn (chimera) which I wrote for the Acoustic Atlas, in a version for 8 speakers and video. The commission included a music piece in 3D-format, but also the acoustic space in which it should be performed (as an impulse response, that is the “signature” of the space which can be loaded into a convulsion reverb). More info about my piece, and the story of the imaginary space I created here
This work is also a study on the Buchla from Studio 4 at EMS, together with drums played back and forth and some unedited interviews from the sixties which I found on analog tapes in the bin somewhere.
Artwork Snømaskn (chimera) by Aurélie Ferrière
Last, we’ll watch the second part of the piece filigrane (part II: all that could have been), premiered by the amazing ensemble Names whom I wrote it for, as filmed by the Austrian television at the Limina Festival 2025.
Names ensemble Salzburg performs filigrane at Limina festival 2025, photo Fabian Schober>>
Actually Names ensemble will perform filigrane again in its entirety at the Suena festival 2026 at Westbahnstudios on May 9. Make sure to catch this if you’re in Vienna!
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There are some tickets left for the premiere of my orchestra piece Eltamin by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm on 28 and 30 May, but catch them while they last. It’s the closing concert of the season at the philharmonic, and conducted by the orchestra’s musical director Ryan Bancroft: not to be missed!
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In the next few months I will be in the first stages of a brand new piece…. which has actually been with me for some years already. But its development hadn’t been initiated yet, so I’m very glad for this concretisation which will take me to Rome, Lisbon and Prague among other places, along 2026 and 2027. Stay tuned – – –
hoping to see lots of you on Wednesday already (no advance booking)
Orchestra premiere 2026
Next year the Stockholm Philharmonic will perform my piece Eltamin, conducted by their musical director Ryan Bancroft. That’s on May 28th and 30th, 2026, at Konserthuset in Stockholm; these will be the closing concerts of the orchestra’s season.
Tickets go on sale this Thursday: book yours here.
More info about the piece here!
Disklavier performance
My piece fantômes for prepared Disklavier (a self-playing piano), electronics and echoes of different things just premiered in Stockholm on June 10!
I missed it as I spent my spring at the Mozarteum in Salzburg but the music video will be soon available on my “new works” page.
Cikatri$ US-tour 10 years!
This spring marks 10 years since the Southwest-USA tour of my band CIKATRI$!
We were booked in the official SXSW Music Programme 2015 as part of the Swedish delegation, and I combined this with some dates through a wide part of the South.
Impressions of this tour & road trip are found in the music video for La Lumière below, more videos here.
To celebrate, I will throw in “The Texas EP” cassette for free (while supplies last!) in all orders passed on Bandcamp until this summer, enjoy!
…then I was invited again to perform at SXSW in 2019 with my underwater 3D piece Musicomexp – more on that very soon!!
Chamber opera premiere
I wrote the second act of the chamber opera Clavigo, a project made possible by the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation after a workshop this spring.
The opera premiered at the Budapest Music Center on 7/12, and was performed again at the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin on 9/12. Impressions from the first performance below!
Featuring:
Marie: Márta Murányi – soprano
Sophie: Anna Molnár – mezzosoprano
Beaumarchais: Sztojanov Georgi – tenor
Clavigo: Zsombor Cserményi – bariton
and the Classicus Quartet: Eszter Kökény – violin, Alíz Gál-Szabó – violin, Péter Tornyai – viola, Tamás Zétényi – violoncello
Obras residency 2024
Summer in Portugal
I finished writing the chamber opera act Clavigo during a residency period at Obras in Portugal – a place I always love going back to and work at, after all these years.
In my artist talk (below) I told the story of my string orchestra piece Futur/scènes, read about it here.
— pics by Ludger van der Eerden —
Upcoming new pieces
Upcoming premieres! // Calendrier des créations de mes nouvelles pièces… // Snart uruppföranden:
6 May, Kungasalen, Stockholm
Duell för horn och inspelad sång
– a piece for horn and electronics, written as a duel between a live horn and a recorded soprano voice singing a few words by Kierkegaard (two Sørens are involved… as the piece is dedicated to, and premiered by hornist Sören Hermansson)
17 May, Futur Scènes for string orchestra, written for Musica Vitae, Nygatan6, Växjö, Sweden. This piece was inspired by periodic acoustic patterns I heard in the Pacific during my Musicomexp journey, telling of scenes from an upcoming music theatre piece (the title is made of two French nouns in a foreign grammar!)
…a bit later but very much looked forward to:
7 December, Budapest Music Center, Hungary
Act II of Clavigo, a chamber opera creation made possible by the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation in Budapest.
More info very soon…
A chamber opera in the making
In February I was part of a chamber opera workshop at the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation in Budapest, where I had the chance to meet György Kurtág when my piece was discussed.
I was then selected as one of the composers for the next phase of the project: Clavigo, a chamber opera after the play by Goethe.
Very sadly Peter passed away in March as you know; the project is still on though and the chamber opera will premiere in Budapest in December, with more dates planned in Berlin and Köln. So right now I’m writing act II of this Clavigo!
Late summer residency at Obras
After a summer filled of music festivals and courses including Montpellier, Bayreuth and Darmstadt(!), I started composing again in Stockholm, only making an exception for a late-summer creation residency at Obras in Portugal in October.
Here’s a pic from my artist talk; have a look at the map I drew for my colleagues on the wall behind me: it pictures the developments of my composition plans and adventures, showing why music theatre is what I’ve come to in the past few years, as much as how I had been aiming for it from the start.
….a quick stop in Weimar between Bayreuth and Darmstadt (the guard in charge cautioned the taking of this picture!)
