Schedule 2022-23


19 August 2022, Plush Festival, Dorset

Harrison Birtwistle: Précis
Harrison BIrtwistle: Hector’s Dawn
Harrison Birtwistle: Gigue Machine
Harrison Birtwistle: Linoi (with Carl Rosman)
Harrison Birtwistle: Lied (with Adrian Brendel)
Harrison Birtwistle: The Mouse Felt… (with Roderick Williams)
Harrison Birtwistle: Liebeslied 1 (with Roderick Williams)


5 September, BBC PROMS

Betsy Jolas: bTunes for Nicolas (2021) for piano and orchestra (world premiere)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Karina Canellakis


7 September, Musikfest Bern

John Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-8)

with ensemble, cond. Peter Rundel


8 September, Musikfest Bern

Bernd Alois Zimmermann (after Rachmaninoff): Concertino for Piano and Orchestra

Berner Symphonieorchester, cond. Heinz Holliger


10 September 2022, Musikfest Bern

John Cage: Hymnkus
John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music

with Trio Accanto


6 October 2022, 20.00, Mixtur Barcelona

Beat Furrer: in’s Offene (2022) 14’ Spanish premiere
Misato Mochizuki: Satellites (2019-20) 15’ Spanish premiere
Daniel Apodaka: Oiseaux de nuit (2022) 10’ World premiere
plus student works

with Trio Accanto


10-12 October 2022, WDR Funkhaus (Studio recording)

Betsy Jolas: complete music for cello and piano

Petites musique de Chevet (1989)
Mon Ami (1974) version for piano and cello
Quatre pièces en marge (1983)
Femme le soir (2018)

Also some of the solo piano pieces.

The solo cello pieces have already been recorded, and the final remaining solo piano pieces will be recorded in Spring 2023.


6 November 2022, Burghof, Lörrach

Simon Steen-Andersen: Piano Concerto
with Basel Sinfonietta, cond. Baldur Brönnimann


10 November 2022, KlangART Musik Festival, Saxony-Anhalt

Kurtág: Játékok - excerpts
Debussy: Jeux (arr. Léon Roques, 1914)
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (arr. Stravinsky)
with Michael Wendeberg


25 November 2022, Konzerthuset, Stockholm

Olga Neuwirth: Piano Concerto "locus...doublure…solus”

with Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, cond. Stefan Asbury


27 November 2022, 15.00, Grünewald Hall, Konzerthuset, Stockholm

Olga Neuwirth: Incidendo-Fluido
Olga Neuwirth: Quasare-Pulsare II

with Quatuor Diotima


30 November 2022, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium

Simon Steen-Andersen: Piano Concerto
with Basel Sinfonietta, cond. Baldur Brönnimann


1 December 2022, De Bijloke, Gent, Belgium

Simon Steen-Andersen: Piano Concerto
with Basel Sinfonietta, cond. Baldur Brönnimann


5 December 2022, 19.30, Rudolfinum, Prague

Martin Smolka: Presto e lento for piano and orchestra (world premiere)

with Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Petr Popelka


20 January 2023, Ultraschall, Berlin (Heimathafen, Neukölln)

Mirela Ivičević: New Work (2022) 10‘ UA commissioned rbb
Evan Johnson: Plan and section of the same reservoir (2019) 18‘
Rebecca Saunders: That Time (2019/21) 22‘


3 February 2023, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Rebecca Saunders: ‘to an utterance’ for piano and orchestra
with Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra


24 February 2023, Landau

Toshio Hosokawa: Lotus under the Moonlight, for piano and orchestra
with Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, cond. Sylvain Cambreling


25 February 2023, Worms

Toshio Hosokawa: Lotus under the Moonlight, for piano and orchestra
with Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, cond. Sylvain Cambreling


26 February 2023, Mannheim

Toshio Hosokawa: Lotus under the Moonlight, for piano and orchestra
with Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, cond. Sylvain Cambreling


12 March 2023, Edenkoben

Wolfgang Rihm: Interscriptum

with Arditti Quartet


March 2023, Köln (WDR/bastille musique)

Betsy Jolas: Complete Piano Works

Studio recording for broadcast and CD release


24 March 2023, Monaco

Betsy Jolas: bTunes for Nicolas (2021) for piano and orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Eva Ollikainen


1 April 2023, Trossingen, 19.00

Christian Wolff: Scraping Up Sand in the Bottom of the Sea (2021) - first performance


Sven Ingo Koch: „eine Frage der Veränderung“ (first performance)
Sven Ingo Koch: Piano Quintett (first performance)

with: Flöte: Prof. Julie Stewart-Lafin
Oboe: Prof. Nicholas Daniel
Klarinette: Prof. Chen Halevi
Fagott: Prof. Fredrik Ekdahl
Horn: Prof. Saar Berger 


May 2023, Rosbaud Studio, Baden-Baden (SWR recording for CD)

Finnissy, works for clarinet and piano

with Carl Rosman, clarinet

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