News

06/13/2017 - 12:17
Uraufführung in Oldenburg

I am proud to announce that the Ensemble TASTISSIMO will do the Premiere of my piece THE CIRCLE for eight hands at two pianos the next Saturday (17.6.) in the long night of the Music in Oldenburg! You listen to the piece at this moment here.
I am also looking forward to the Flanders Recorder Quartet: they will present their latest and last album this Sunday (18.6.) in Bamberg. It contains my African Suite No. 16 INXAXHEBA - a great recording! Of course I will be there in Oldenburg as well as in Bamberg!

05/16/2017 - 15:39
New Music Sheet

In December last year I published a lot of new music sheet: The recorder quartets KUNJANI (How are you?), WAKATI NJEMA (The Best Moment) and INXAXHEBA (Opportunity), the Suite for two Flutes and Marimba INJABULO (Happiness), the Flute Quintet Njagala Nnyimba (I love Music)) and the pieces for recorder orchestra JOURNEY TO JINJA, UMCULO WAMANZI (Water Music) and SIKU NJEMA (The Great Day - for Solo Recorder and recorder orchestra). Just look through this page! The next editions will follow in the end of the year: THE CIRCLE for eight hands at two pianos, SIKU SIYO MBALI for eight hands at one piano, the African Suites No. 18, 20 and 21 and JABAL RAM and UMOYA for recorder orchestra!

05/16/2017 - 15:18
The next Premieres:

The next Premieres: On June 17 the Ensemble TASTISSIMO will play the Premiere of THE CIRCLE for eight Hands at two pianos in Oldenburg. I am looking very much forward, because my long-long-time composer friend Ronald Poelman will also play. On May 24 the recorder Orchestra Nordwind will play the premiere of the commissioned piece UMOYA (Wind). On July 17 the Berlin Recorder Orchestra will play my arabic piece JABAL RAM in the Emmaus-Kirche in Berlin-Kreuzberg. And on July 2nd Meng-Heng Chen and me will play the Premiere of my African Suite No. 18 IMIBALA YENYABULO (The Colours of Happiness) for piano and solo recorder in Hsinchu in the Performance Hall of Cutural Bureau in Taiwan!

05/16/2017 - 15:02
Workshop in Paris!

My biggest thanks to Marie-Theres Eloi, Carole Benchetrit, Hélène Bricault, Jean Noel Catrice, Béatrice Delpierre, Bertrand Lemonnier, Sungmin Son and all the others for the fantastic workshop and the following concert on May 13 and 14 in Issy Les Moulineaux near Paris! I hope I will be back next year. The next workshop is on July first in Taiwan, Hsinchu County, Chupei City, in the Hsing Lung Primary School!

03/28/2017 - 15:21
New Music Sheet

NEW MUSIC SHEET: Since the end of last year I published many new pieces: the recorder quartets KUNJANI (quite simple), WAKATI NJEMA (medium) and INXAXHEBA (difficult), the flute quintet NJAGALA NNYIMBA (also available as recorder quintet), INJABULO (Happiness) for two flutes and marimba (also with piano instead of marimba) and three new pieces for recorder orchestra: UMCULO WAMANZI (Water Music) for big recorder orchestra, JOURNEY TO JINJA for recorder quartet and recorder orchestra and SIKU NJEMA (The great day) for solo recorder and recorder orchestra. Just look through this page, there are a lot of recordings where you can listen to the pieces!

03/28/2017 - 15:10
New CD

The Ensemble Pipelife has just published their new CD TIDES AND TUNES , including a wonderful recording of my 16 Variations on the Swallowtail Jig! Very soon available here. The next Premieres: 7.5, Berlin: JABAL RAM for Recorder Orchestra, Recorder Orchestra Berlin. 24.6. Hamburg: UMOYA for Recorder Orchestra, Recorder Orchestra Nordwind. 17.6, Oldenburg: THE CIRCLE for eight hands at two pianos, Ensemble Tastissimo. 2.7. Taipeh: Imibala Yanyabulo for Recorder and piano, Meng-Heng Chen and me. 23.9., Michaelstein: Tomo tomo, African Suite No. 20 for Recorder Quartet, Boreas Quartett. 23.9.: Siku Siyo mbali for eight hands at ONE piano (!), Ensemble Tastissimo. Looking forward!!

03/28/2017 - 14:58
Workshop in Fulda

WORKSHOPS: On the weekend of the 28th and 29th of April there will be my next Recorder Workshop about my African Compositions for Recorder at Mollenhauer in Fulda, including brandnew, unpublished compositions! You can still participate - I look forward to see you there! The next Workshop of this kind will be on the 13th and 14th of May in Issy-les-Moulineaux nearby Paris!

01/27/2017 - 17:43
New pieces

I may proudly announce, that I just finished two new pieces: : SIKU SIYO MBALI (The day is not far), a eleven-minutes-Variation-piece for one piano and eight (!) hands for the Ensemble Tastissimo - Premiere will be probably in September! And MIBALA YENJABULO (The colours of happiness), my African Suite No. 18, and at the same time my first piece for Solo Recorder and Piano! Premiere will be on second of July in Taipeh sein, with Meng-Heng Chen at the recorder and myself at the piano :-) My first public performance on stage in a classical concert since 1998! Besides there are many, many new pieces for recorder and flute I published in the end of 2016 - just look around on this site!

12/31/2016 - 14:16
HAPPY NEW YEAR

I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR! With lots of love, peace and music - and may all your dreams come true. Hope to see you in 2017! Yours Sören

12/11/2016 - 17:34
Elf neue Stücke!

This month I published eleven new pieces! Three recorder quartets, two recorder quintets, one flute quintet, one piece for two flutes and marimba, one piece for two flutes and piano, and three new pieces for recorder orchestra! Just look around here. To most of them you can also listen here. Who orders something in December will get a recording of the Tokyo Concert for free!