2024

05-03-2024. Gesprächskonzert in der Nationalbibliothek, Palais Mollard, Musiksalon.

At the  concert in the music salon of the Austrian National Library in cooperation with the IMAGO DEI Krems festival and the Loisiarte, the piano trio "Do Snowflakes Get Colder When They Touch Each Other?" was performed by Platypus as well as the piano composition "SIEBEN, SINNEN" and an excerpt from "Darkness, unveiled" - the violin  cadenza - Benedikt Lodes also moderated the evening and I was allowed to talk about myself and  the pieces.

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2023

02-07-2023. Small is Beautiful.

As part of the international ekmelic music society's symposium "Small is Beautiufl" I gave a lecture at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg about Arabic maqam music as inspiration contemporary music  e.g. in Cerha's string quartet No. 1 "Maqam" and generally about quarter-tone systems, e.g. that of Alois Hába.

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2022

12-12-2022. Big Band Event. Austrian Jazz Composers Orchestra alias Nouvelle Cuisine. Porgy & Bess.

The musical year 2022 ended brilliantly with the Big Band Event by the media composers of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Porgy & Bess, organized by Christian Mühlbacher, interpreted by the Austrian Jazz Composer's Orchestra aka Nouvelle Cuisine. It was my first composition for Big Band and it was a lot of fun to conduct the piece "12 Blind Monkeys Eating A Poem" with such a great Big Band.

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09-05-2022. Begegnung Neue Musik.

The premiere of my work for large ensemble "Listen, my dearest, hear the sweet night march" took place in May 2022 as part of the concert "Begegnung Neue Musik" at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. The concert was directed by Jaime Wolfson.

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2021