On this page you will an overview of the short pieces resulting from this delightful project.
There are, of course, many more. My full list of works can be found here.
Scores of these small pieces are available – even if they weren’t written for you! If you’d like to play something listed below, do get in touch.
Titles in blue are links to a recording.
for cello solo
professional, medium / amateur, advanced
Inspired by those long, dark evenings of late autumn.
November 2020
Mandarin
for violin, mandolin and voice
professional, simple-medium
About sweetness, sourness, perfection, pleasure, and surprise.
October 2020
for recorder solo (C Paetzold/great bass in C)
professional, medium
Inspired by the cheekiest and most philosophical of birds, and its depictions in Chinese folklore.
September 2020
A twinkle in the diamond eye of death
for clarinet solo
amateur, medium-virtuoso / professional, simple-medium
About playfulness, mischief and the comfort of embracing your shadow.
August 2020
for solo oboe
professional, medium-virtuoso
About fragility and roughness, and how something beautiful can come from somewhere unexpected.
August 2020
Midsummer twilight
for soprano and baritone
amateur, medium (soprano) / professional, medium (baritone)
About enormous, huge softness, and the sexiness of summer.
July 2020
Mermaid bubblegum
for bass flute
professional, medium
A deep blue underwater bubble, with frothy gossamer sunshine and audience participation.
June 2020
for tenor pan flute
professional, medium-virtuoso
“a mark with no particular shape that is caused, as if by accident by running something such as ink or a dirty finger across a surface”
– the Cambridge Dictionary, ‘smudge’
June 2020
Ewigkeit in einem Augenzwinkern
for medieval double recorder
professional, medium
About standing in an ancient church in the Swiss mountains and experiencing eternity; feeling infinite and non-existent at the same time. And about the lightness with which these meaningful moments come and go.
June 2020
Sakura
for ‘cello & music box
professional, medium
About cherry trees in springtime, and the aesthetic appreciation of transience and imperfection.
May 2020
Beauty remains
for violin, viola & cello
professional, simple-medium
About grief and loss, but also about lightness, and how there will always be beauty.
May 2020
for viola da gamba (bass viol) solo
professional, simple-medium
…about nature, and small birds
May 2020
Betowering
for piano trio
amateur, simple-medium (violin/piano)
amateur, virtuoso (cello)
About walking in a magical forest, losing the cellist, and finding each other again in a humoresque-like dance.
May 2020
for bass clarinet
professional, medium
Because if there’s one thing both the performer and I really missed in that dark time when there were no café’s…
May 2020
Body, remember – a dialogue for one performer
for cello & voice
professional, virtuoso
A ritual of reclaiming sensuality
April 2020
Dancing with the inner silence
for one recorder player (contrabass Paetzold / alto in G)
with simple electronics
professional, simple-medium
Inspired by two short pieces by J.S.Bach, “Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sein”, and “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist”.
Looking for the possible embrace
amateur, medium
About missing physical closeness in the time of self-isolation, and the comfort of embracing the cello.
April 2020
for cello solo
professional, simple-medium
The texture of pizzicato combined with the colours of early spring
April 2020
Hyachor
for soprano saxophone and alto saxophone
amateur (soprano) /professional (alto), medium
…about the smell of hyacinths
April 2020