Upcoming and recent performances

: Letter Pieces performance by Shila Anaraki and Tomma Wessel

Letter Pieces 2007+ Open-score pieces for performer (e.g. dancer, live-artist, actor) and musician (vocal or any instrument).

Manuel Zurria and Paolo Ravaglia

Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio, Vorno, Italy 22 November 2025

Explorations in Polytonality and other Musical Wonders, Volume 3 2022 21 minutes For 7 instruments: piccolo/flute, soprano/tenor saxophone, accordion, synthesiser, violin, cello and double bass. For Hashtag Ensemble

Commissioned by Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik

Arc-en-Ciel

Zurich, Switzerland 13 November 2025

Etudes and Impromptus 2025 13 minutes 5 etudes for one recorder, 5 impromptus for two recorders For Tomma Wessel and Ines Rasbach

Commissioned by TRANSIT Festival

Tomma Wessel

TRANSIT Festival, Leuven, Belgium 19 October 2025

Tomma Wessel and Ines Rasbach

Chamber Music Days, Bruges, Belgium 9 July 2025

Popular Contexts, Volume 10: Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony in context 2016 15 minutes For flute, synthesizer, violin and cello For The Peärls Before Swïne Experience Beethoven cycle

Commissioned by Swedish Arts Council

Sounds Modern

Grayson College, Texas, USA 2 October 2025
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA 3 May 2025

The Big Idea 2025 1 hour For mezzo soprano, flute, cello (doubling bass guitar), piano/synthesiser, percussion For Lotte Betts-Dean and Rubiks Collective Libretto by Vid Simoniti

Lotte Betts-Dean and Rubiks Collective

The Street Theatre, Canberra, Australia 27 September 2025
ACO On The Pier, Sydney, Australia 26 September 2025
Melbourne Recital Hall, Australia 25 September 2025

Five Monuments for Our Time 2008 7 minutes For conductor, 8+ instruments, and drum kit For Gijs Kramers

Elder Conservatorium Studio Orchestra (cond: Luke Severn)

Elder Hall, Adelaide, Australia 12 September 2025

Hi hat and Me 2010 5 minutes For solo percussionist (voice and hi-hat). For Claire Edwardes

Tyler Long

Bridges Arts Council, North Dakota, USA 31 August 2025

Left, Right, Up, Down, Pogo 2013 7 minutes For solo flute For Manuel Zurria

Clément Michelot

Darmstadt Summer Course Open Space, Germany 26 July 2025

Jan Nakamura

Salon de Musica, Tokyo, Japan 17 August 2025

Jun Nakamura

Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria 27 June 2025
Kunsthaus Muerz, Austria 12 June 2025

Explorations in Polytonality and other Musical Wonders, Volume 4 2023 15 minutes Quartet for 2 synthesisers, percussion and drum-kit

Commissioned by Hochschule der Künste Bern

Quartet Laboratoire

Darmstadt Summer Course, Germany 21 July 2025

Lecture about Listening to Music 2017 32 minutes For lecturer, soprano/tenor saxophone and synthesiser/samples

Anna-Sofia Anttonen, Mark Knoop and Matthew Shlomowitz

Time of Music, Viitasaari, Finland 5 July 2025

Weird Audio Guide 2011, arranged 2020 For accordion, synthesiser (with samples) and drum-kit

Komonplex

Time of Music, Viitasaari, Finland 4 July 2025

Songs about words and about the pleasure of misery 2012 20 minutes Five songs for soprano and piano For Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop

Commissioned by The Britten-Pears Foundation

Nina Guo and Joe Houston

km28, Berlin, Germany 27 May 2025 [extract]

Four Songs 2025 13 minutes For Nina Guo and Joe Houston Lyrics by Harry Blake

Nina Guo and Joe Houston

km28, Berlin, Germany 27 May 2025

Minor Characters 2022 50 minutes For vocalist, saxophone(s), electric guitar, synthesiser, and drum-kit/percussion In collaboration with Jennifer Walshe

Commissioned by the Darmstadt Summer Course, La Muse en Circuit, Radio France and Klangspuren Schwaz

Jennifer Walshe and Ensemble Nikel

Spor Festival, Aarhus, Denmark 18 May 2025

Winter Games 1987 2025 12 minutes Quartet for synthesizer and three drum kits For Grupo de Percussão

Grupo de Percussão

Lisboa 5L festival, Portugal 9 May 2025

Freedom for Notes and Men 2018 22 minutes For speaking accordionist Written for Ghenadie Rotari

Sonja Vertainen

Hanover University of Music, Germany 30 April 2025