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Orchestra

Aus Liebe II - Version for chamber orchestra (2025) – 12'

Version for chamber orchestra (6,5,4,4,2)

WP: 29. 06.2025, Schwere Reiter Munich, aDeavantgarde Festival

Whistle-Blower (2020/2021) – 15'

for amplified solo recorder, sampler and string orchestra

WP: 02.06.2021, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Whistle-Blower (Corona-Fassung) (Whistle-Blower (Corona version)) (2020/2021) – 12'

for amplified solo recorder, sampler and string orchestra

WP: 05.02.2021, Theatre House Stuttgart

Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M.C.B. Variation V (2019) – 2'

for orchestra

WP: 13 August 2019, Royal Albert Hall, London

DAS IMAGINÄRE NACH LACAN (THE IMAGINARY ACCORDING TO LACAN) (2016/2017) – 25'

for singer/performer, large orchestra, additional parts and live electronics
Text: Helga Utz (based on poems from the Arab world, primarily from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic period)
Composition, samples + live electronics: Iris ter Schiphorst
Programming and sound direction: Wolfgang Musil

WP: 04.11. 2017, Konzerthaus, Great Hall, Vienna

JEDER (EVERYONE) (2016/2017) (with Uroš Rojko) – 24'

for amplified double bass clarinet solo, large orchestra, videos and samples
Concept, direction, composition: Iris ter Schiphorst & Uros Rojko

WP: 04.02.2018, Theatre House, T1, Stuttgart

Gravitational Waves (2016) (with Uros Rojko) – 9'

for large orchestra, masks and samples

WP: 04.08.2016, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh

An die Strände der Ruhe - wo die Sonne untergeht T (o the beaches of tranquillity - where the sun goes down) (2015) – 16'

for orchestra with masks, sampler + female voice,
based on the poem 'wie erklär ich' by Nora Gomringer, quotes from a speech by the mayor of Lampedusa from 2013, and a text fragment by Helga Utz

WP: 16 October 2015, Gewandhaus Leipzig

AUS LIEBE II (2015)

for string orchestra and solo violin

WP: 03.06.2016, State Theatre, Large House, Cottbus

SOMETIMES (2015)

for orchestra, sampler and solo piano
for Alexandra Dariescu

WP: 19.02.2016

“La tristesse durera…” (2015) – 6'

for orchestra + sampler

WP: 20.11.2015, Cottbus State Theatre

SOS - Odysseus (2012/2013) (with Uroš Rojko) – 50'

for orchestra, 2 actors and staged children's choirs
Libretto Helga Utz

WP: 8. 5. 2013, Philharmonie Köln

Passion 13 – Melodram (Passion 13 - Melodrama) (2010) – 22'

for staged vocalist, orchestra and interludes

WP: 04.09.2010 Gewandhaus, Mendelssohn Hall, Leipzig

DISLOKATIONEN (DISLOCATIONS) (2008-2009) – 22'

for orchestra, solo piano and sampler

WP: 03 July 2009, Herkulessaal, Munich

Vergeben/Bruchstücke zu Edgar Varèse (Forgiven/Fragments on Edgar Varèse) (2007) – 15'

for wind orchestra, percussion and piano

WP: 02.11.2007 Cologne, Festival 'Musik der Zeit'

Zerstören II (To Destroy II) (2006) – 25'

for amplified orchestra and sampler

WP: 23 February 2007 Leonhard-Gläser-Saal, Siegen

Berlin: Symphonie einer Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a big city) (2001/2002) (with Helmut Oehring) – 70'

for large orchestra and film

WP: 10.04.2002, Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden

BROKEN or "Why don't you say a word..." (2001/2002) – 9'

a kind of 'orchestral love song' for orchestra and sample keyboard

WP: May 2002, Potsdam

Ballade für Orchester: HUNDERT KOMMA NULL (1999) – 17'

for orchestra and sample keyboard
freely adapted from an annagram by Unica Zürn

WP: 11 February 2000, Herkulessaal, Munich

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