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Works written for Ensemble Schwerpunkt

Janárčeková Vier(info)

Metallatem for Brass Quintet

Commissioned by the Tage der Neuen Musik Bamberg

Premiere at the Tage der Neuen Musik Bamberg, October 29th, 2021

(info)

Gander, Bernhard (info)

Messing 5 for Brass Quintet

Commissioned by the Wittener tage für neue Kammermusik

Premiere at the Wittener tage für neue Kammermusik, April 25th, 2021

(info)

Rydzewska, Żaneta (info)

Zauberwürfel for Brass Quintet

Commissioned by the Wittener tage für neue Kammermusik

Premiere at the Wittener tage für neue Kammermusik, April 25th, 2021

(info)

Mason, Benedict (info)

Hotel Paradiso (for brass trio, percussion trio, actors, singers, choir and ripieno) 

Commissioned by the Transart Festival Bolzano, funded by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Premiered at the Transart Festival, September 21st, 2019

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Ayres, Richard (info)

No.49 (for brass quintet and soundtrack)

Commissioned by SWR

Premiere at SWR "JetztMusik" in Stuttgart, June 6th, 2019

Schachtner, Johannes X (info)

Bartleby (for brass quintet, female choir and reciter)

Commissioned by the Mädchenchor Hannover

Premiered at Niedersäschische Musiktage, September 15th, 2018

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Fanfare Project @ Musik 21 Festival 2017 with Ensemble Schwerpunkt
20 Fanfares commissioned for Ensemble Schwerpunkt to be played all over the city during the festival. August 18th-20th, 2017.

Fanfares by:

Neele Hülcker
Sarah Nemtsov
Makiko Nishikaze
Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis
Hye-Yeon Choi
Noriko Kawakami
Mara Genschel
Yukiko Watanabe
Dodo Schielein
Hanna Hartman
Paul Hübner
Sergej Nevski
Hannes Seidl
Kilian Schwoon
Joachim Heintz
Alexander Schubert
Petros Leivados
Gerald Eckert
Arsalan Abedian
Ole Hübner

Raasakka, Ville (info)

Du trüber nebel hüllst mir (for brass quintet and sound files)

Commissioned by the Time of Music-Festival, Viitasaari, Finland

Premiered July 8th, 2016

Time of Music-Festival, Viitasaari, Finland

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Beste, Ansgar (info)

Le carnaval des animaux (for prepared brass quintet)

Commissioned by Arts Council Norway

Premiered May 4th, 2016

Kleiner Sendesaal in NDR in Hannover, Germany

(info)

Nicolaou, Vassos  (info)

Spielwechsler. Versteckt

Commissioned by SWR Baden-Baden for the ars nova series

Premiered April 8th, 2016

Alte Spohnhalle, Ravensburg
(info)

Hübner, Paul  (info)

UA 2015
premiere tbd

Weiß, Michael B.

Der Mensch, diese seltene Erde

Commissioned by the aDevantgarde-Festival

Premiered June 14th, 2015

aDevantgarde-Festival, Munich, Germany

Holz, Eres  (info

Vier Schatten für Blechbläserquintett
Commissioned by the Berlin Cultural Administration
Premiered November 25th, 2014

BKA-Theater Berlin, Germany

Aydintan, Markus

Relief

Commissioned by Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur

Premiered July 18th, 2014
Musik21-Festival "Land-Art" Soltau, Germany

Dougherty, William (info

Blech

Premiered June 10th, 2014
Grosser Saal, Hochschule für Musik Basel, Switzerland

Park, Jung-Eun

Krieg
Commissioned by the Hannover Institute for Musik and Gender, fmg

Premiered April 4th, 2014
Deutschlandfunk - Forum neue Musik, Köln, Germany

Blum, Christoph

Variationen für Blechbläserquintett

Premiered October 25th, 2013

Lichthof, Regierungsgebäude Luzern, Switzerland

Hartikainen, Jarkko (info)

Radix

Commissioned by the Swedish Cultural and Madetoja Foundations
Premiered November 5th, 2013

Helsinki, Finland

Full Repertoire

Contemporary

Ammann, Dieter
Arnold, Malcolm

Aydintan, Markus *

Ayres, Richard
Bauck
holt, Carola
Berio, Luci
ano

Beste, Ansgar *

Blum, Christoph *
Campo, Regis

Dougherty, William
Dusapin, Pascal

Gander, Bernhard *
Globokar, Vinko

Hartikainen, Jarkko *
Henze, Hans Werner

Holz, Eres *
Hillborg, Anders

Hübner, Paul *
Lutoslawski, Witold

Janárčeková Viera
Jevtic, Ivan
MacMillan, James
Martland, Steven
Mason, Benedict

Mason, Benedict *

Nicolaou, Vassos *
Nillni, Ricardo
Nyman, Michael

Park, Jung-Eun *

Raasakka, Ville *
Rihm, Wolfgang

Rydzewska, Żaneta *
Schachtner, Johannes

Schachtner, Johannes *
Sampson, David
Tamberg, Eino
Tavener, John

Weiß, Michael B. *

 

 

Classical

Bellon, Jean François
Dowland, John
Ewald, Victor
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Holborne, Anthony
Mendelssohn, Felix 
Rameau, Jean-Philippe 
Scheidt, Samuel
Taverner, John
Wilbye, John


 

Quintett with Soloist

Eggert, Moritz
Lindberg, Christian
Stockhausen, Karlheinz


 

Extended Quintet

Crawford, Robert
Dahl, Ingolf
Eötvös, Peter
Goebbels, Heiner
Henze, Hans Werner
Larsson, Mats
Poppe, Enno
Rihm, Wolfgang
Xenakis, Iannis


 

Trios

Gubaidulina, Sofia
Poulenc, Francois
Schneller, Oliver 
Schnyder, Daniel

Žuraj, Vito​

 

 

Developments

Brass Quintet No. 1

Relief

No.49 for Brass Quintet and Soundtrack
3 Sätze für Blechblasquintett
Call, “St. Louis Fanfare”

Le carnaval des animaux

Variationen für Blechbläserquintett
Exsultate Jubilate

Blech
Stanze, Dyade pour quintette de cuivres

Messing5
Discours VII

Radix 

Fragmente aus einer Show

Vier Schatten für Blechbläserquintett 
Brass Quintet

UA 2015
Mini Overture for Brass Quintet

Metallatem for Brass Quintet
Quintette Victoria
Adam’s Rib
Full Fathom Five
Brass Quintet

Hotel Paradiso

Spielwechsler. Versteckt
Territoires en fil de fer
Masque Arias

Krieg

Du trüber nebel hüllst mir 
Sine Nomine I

Zauberwürfel for Brass Quintet
Trois mouvements

Bartleby
Morning Music
Music for five
Trisagion

Der Mensch, diese seltene Erde 

 

 

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Brass Quintets
Dowland Suite (arr. Lindberg)
Brass Quintets 1-4
Canzon per sonare No. 2
Three Madrigals
String Quartet No. 1 in E flat op. 12 (arr. Puccini)
Suite from Dardanus (arr. Verhelst) 
Canzon Aethiopicam No. 5
Audivi
Four English Madrigals

 

 

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Morphing (Accordion)
Condor Canyon (Trombone)
Tierkreis (Svoboda) (Trombone)

 

 

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Hammered Brass (+ perc)
Music for Brass Instruments (+ B.Trb.)
Brass: The Metal Space (+ Hn. & Trb.)
Herakles II (+ Perc. & electr.)
Sonata per Otto Ottoni (+ Trp. & Hn. & Trb.)
Clockworks (+ 2 Pianos & Timpani)
Zug (+ Hn. & Trb.)
Klangbeschreibung II (+ 4 voices & 6 Perc.)
Khal Perr (+ Perc.)

 

 

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Trio für drei Trompeten
Trio for Brass
Five Miniatures after Maurice Sendak 
Trio for Brass

Quiet, please

* written for Ensemble Schwerpunkt

Concert Programs

 

New Standards 

Berio: Call: A St. Louis Fanfare

Sampson: Morning Music
Dusapin: Stanze : Dyade pour quintette

      -pause-

Lutoslawski: Mini-Overture
Henze: Fragmente aus einer Show
Hillborg: Brass Quintet

 

[ca. 70 minutes]
 

 

Buzzer-Beater 1

Goebbels: Herakles II 1
Crawford: Hammered Brass 1

      -pause-

Globokar: Discours VII
Xenakis: Khal Perr 1

 

[ca. 70 minutes]

 

 

Buzzer-Beater 2

Rihm: Sine Nomine I
Eötvös: Brass: the metal space 1, 3

      -pause-

Rihm: Klangbeschreibung II 1, 4

 

[ca. 70 minutes]

Minimalism for Brass

Campo: Exsultate Jubilate
Nyman: Masque Arias
Martland: Full Fathom Five

      -pause-

Tavener: Trisagion
Larsson: Clockworks 1, 2

 

[ca. 60 minutes] 

 

 

Old Standards

Dowland: Dowland Suite, (arr. Lindberg)
Ewald: Quintet for Brass No. 1
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major (arr. Puccini) 

      -pause-

Arnold: Brass Quintet No. 1
Shostakovich: String Quartet No, 8 (arr. Higgins)

 

[ca. 70 minutes]

 

 

1: with percussion
2: with 2 pianos
3: with extra trombone and horn
4: with 4 female singers

 

Programs can be tailored to specific requests or with selections from our complete repertoire list.

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