Composing is a "hurray-I-live". It is the greatest possible opposite of death. In composing, I sense that what was just there has already flowed on again by the time I realise it. It is the experience that it has taken me with it, spewed out as something changed, into a next space of presence, which then again wants to be perceived on a new level. Composing creates a space of permanent presence. What keeps me from being what I can be in this moment is cancelled out in it. By being present, it overcomes stasis and lulls me into the experience of the greatest possibleabsence of death. Composing is an admission of what I did not yet know about myself and about things, and what I am experiencing anew. It is growing and being present at the same time, an autopoetic system that gains its energy from itself and continues to flow. Its place is the glassy space in which everything or nothing meets in the nothingness, in the silence, in the vacuum of one's own naked existence. It places me in a context in which I can be certain: Hooray, I'm alive.

FIDELIO IS SILENT (2020)

Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven / Charlotte Seither

Commissioned by the Beethoven Anniversary Society BTHVN 2020 and the Gelsenkirchen Theatre

World premiere: Theater Gelsenkirchen, conductor: GMD Rasmus Baumann, Gelsenkirchen, director: Hermann Schneider, 1 January 2021

LISTENMAKING. NINE ACTS OF SPEECH (2020)

for solo voice freely adapted from Friedrich Hölderlin

Commissioned by the University of Vienna for the International Hölderlin Symposium 2020

Premiere: Salome Kammer, voice, University of Vienna, 6 March 2020

SHE WHO SPEAKS (2019)

for orchestra

Commissioned work for the Schumann-Fest-Zwickau on the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann,

Premiere: Zwickau Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: GMD Leo Siberski, Zwickau, 6 June 2019

LAUSCHGUT (2018/19)

for piano

Commissioned by the Vienna University of Music, premiere: Wien Modern, Mathilde Hoursiangou, 18 November 2019

STERNLICHT. THREE FRAGMENTS FOR LILI BOULANGER (2018)

for piano

Commissioned by GEDOK Freiburg, premiere: Freiburg, Akiko Okabe, piano, 13 December 2018

KRÜ (2018)

for violoncello

Commissioned by the series "Alte Meister IV" Dresden, premiere: Dresden, Matthias Lorenz, violoncello, 13 September 2018

DISTANT ENCOUNTER. TROIS ADIEUX FOR LUDWIG VAN B. (2018)

for chamber orchestra

Commissioned by the German Music Council for the German Orchestra Competition 2020,

première: Bonn, German Orchestra Competition 2020

SETTE RESPIRI (CALL) (2017)

for solo voice (or responsorial voices)

Commissioned by the Guardini Foundation, premiere: Rome, 15 October 2018, Christuskirche Via Sicilia, Dekalog-Forum Guardini Foundation, Irene Kurka, voice

FLUGSAATEN (2017)

for clarinet, accordion and string quartet

Commissioned work by the ensemble klarinette-akkordeon-plus for its 20th anniversary, premiere: Randspiele Zepernick, St. Annen Church, Matthias Badczong, clarinet, Christine Paté, accordion, Sonar Quartet, 6 July 2017

HEAD UP LADY (2017)

for voice and piano freely adapted from a text by Kathrin Schmidt

Commissioned by the Kissinger Musiksommer 2017, premiere: Bad Kissingen, Kissinger Musiksommer, Liederwerkstatt, Kimberley Boettger-Soller, mezzo-soprano, Axel Bauni, piano, 2 July 2017

SWITZERLAND PICTURES (2017)

for solo voice

Premiere: Munich, Schwere Reiter, Total Vokal, Salome Kammer, voice, 31 March 2018

WING MAKER (2016)

for soprano, violoncello and percussion

Premiere: Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden / Schillertheater (Werkstatt), 17 January 2017, Ensemble der Atonale Berlin

FIGURE IN SPACE (2016)

for violin, violoncello and piano

Commissioned by the Förderkreis Neue Musik Heibronn, premiere: Heilbronn, 10 March 2017, Boulanger Trio

SELBSTLAUT. (SHORTCUT FOR MAX) (2016)

for clarinet, violin and violoncello

Commissioned by the Max Reger Society Weiden on the 100th anniversary of his death, premiere: Weiden Max Reger Tage, 16 September 2016, Wolfgang Meyer, clarinet, Matthias Enderle, violin, Mischa Meyer, cello

INSCRIPT. COMMENTARY ON BWV 4 (2016)

for choir and orchestra

Commissioned by the EKD Westphalia for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, premiere: Recklinghausen, 30 April 2017, Hertener Kantorei, members of the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Elke Cernysev

A FEW SYLLABLES OF HAPPINESS (2016)

for solo voice

Premiere: Dresden, anniversary concert of the ensemble Auditiv Vokal, Anna Palimina, 1 June 2017

WRITE MY NAME (2015)

for organ and percussion

Commissioned by Duo Carillon, premiere: Kunststation St. Peter Cologne, 20 February 2016

LEFT LUGGAGE. ECHO FOR LUDWIG VAN B. (2015)

for piano

Premiere: Bonn, Post-Tower, supporting programme for the Beethoven Festival, Susanne Kessel, piano,

7 September 2015

HUNGRY (2014/15)

for percussion quartet

Premiere: Summer Academy of the German National Academic Foundation, Brixen, Jochen Schorer, Richard Gläser, Andreas Fuß, Kaspar Querfurth, percussion, conductor: Tobias Drewelius,

7 August 2015

SGUARDO DA MOLTO VICINO (2015)

for female voice, flute, violin and piano

Commissioned by Teatro La Fenice Venice for the Maratona Contemporanea, premiere: Ex Novo Ensemble Venice, Sonia Visentin, soprano, Venice, 9 July 2015

MESSAGES FROM THE TOWER. TWO PIECES FOR FRIEDICH H. (2014)

for voice and piano

Premiere: Stuttgart, UNICEF-Benezifkonzert, Martin Nagy, voice, Moira Muschalla, piano,

12 June 2016

TELL IT OR SHOUT (2014)

Duo for one string and wind instruments

Premiere: Festspielhaus Hellerau / Dresden, Ensemble Courage, 26 November 2017

ASK HIM! (2014)

for piano

Premiere: Art Lab Johannesburg, 19 July 2015, Johannesburg / South Africa, Jill Richards, piano

CHERCHER LE CHIEN (2014)

for bass flute / flute, bass clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, violoncello and piano

Supported by the scholarship Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia Bamberg,

Premiere: Villa Concordia Bamberg, 12 March 2014, Ensemble musikFabrik, conductor: Johannes Schöllhorn

and many other works