Fascinated by Orchestral Sounds:
A new CD-recording with the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra (cond.: Vladimir Lande) in Krasnoyarsk with the quartet CLAIR OBSCUR: - BERLIN PUNK for saxophone quartet & orchestra and CRI MUET (composed for the victims of terrorism in Paris 2015) were played in a sold out Philharmonic Concert on 30th of june... with live TV-transmission and with standing ovations. And also very emotional: Excursions in the monumental siberian landscapes as the River Jenissei with its 4000 kilometers or in the mountains with the famous Rock Pillars... one oft he most spirituel locations in Siberia.
In June and July two orchestral works were composed. 1) a concerto for Piccolo Trumpet and Orchestra, which will be First performed on 19th of october by Otto Sauter in Pirmasens/Germany: L’ANGELICA FARFALLA. DIAMONDS LOST IN THE DARKNESS OF PAST; ...and 2) "INNER WORLDS. Symphonic Mood Paintings" based on the Interludes of opera BAHNWÄRTER THIEL / TRACKMAN THIEL, which will be performed and recorded on CD in 2019 by Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Simon Gaudenz.... And freshly printed by publisher Strube-Verlag München: a concerto for Viola solo and Strings FATAL HARMONIES.... variations on a Madrigal of Renaissance Composer Gesualdo...
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COMPOSING, COMPOSING, COMPOSING..... A lot of new works, new performances are the joy in composers life!
"CLAIR-OBSCUR" AND OTHER CDs
In 2018 were released five exciting CDs, - symphonic, large oratorio, chamber music, sacred music. Three of them end of 2018... and the latest is CLAIR-OBSCUR. COLORS OF SAXOPHONES with the Berlin saxophone quartet >clair_obscur<
ORLANDO DI LASSO-MEDAILLE and some other honors
Doubtfull thoughts about honors and awards: a subtle memory - "is it likely to be the end?"
MARCO POLO – a monumental opera in Guangzhou & Beijing
Exciting News in may 2018: Sometimes silent as my election as official member of the „Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts“ or my nomination as „Honorary Artistic Advisor“ of Guangzhou Opera House. Sometimes with frenetic applause as the performances of my opera MARCO POLO (composed and sung in chinese language) in Guangzhou and Beijing. All over China it was a sensation in media and cultural life.
Latest CD „MAGIC OF IRREALITY“ WERGO/Naxos
Enthusiastic reviews of the latest CD „MAGIC OF IRREALITY“ at Label WERGO distributed by NAXOS with two double concertos, recorded october 2017 with Siberian State Symphony Orchestra (Vladimir Lande, conductor) in Krasnoyarsk: Jiemin Yan (Erhu) and Wen-Sinn Yang (Cello) playing ISOLDE & TRISTAN, Otto Sauter (piccolo trumpet) and Sergei Nakariakov (flugelhorn) playing DREAMDANCERS.
