CADIZ is finished! This CD, which I recorded in June 2022 with the recorder genius Chris Orton from Barcelona, contains my most important works for recorder and piano: Imibala yenjabulo, Tell them I've had a wonderful life, Three Sad Songs - and the eponymous suite CADIZ! CADIZ will cost 15 euros, the official sale starts on December 1st. From today until November 30th you can get the CD together with the newly released sheet music for THREE SAD SONGS for 25 Euro! Just click on the offer on the CD or the sheet music page :-)
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I am very pleased that the long-standing German ambassador to Cameroon, Volker Seitz, has now published a detailed review of "Oh, how beautiful is Africa!": https://www.achgut.com/artikel/oh_wie_schoen_ist_afrika. Volker Seitz himself published his 40 years of experience in Africa in the very good book "Afrika wird armregiert" (dtv). His review is therefore a special honor for me! Before this I was able to report on the absurdities of the so-called "sensitivity reading" in the FAZ from 28.1. and in the Swiss WELTWOCHE from 17.2. (https://weltwoche.ch/story/sie-reproduzieren-kolonial-rassistische-macht...). The Hamburger Abendblatt published a large portrait (https://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article236657777/couchsurfing-trip...) and WELT has printed the first chapter (https://www.welt.de/reise/staedtereisen/plus241191741/Couchsurfing-in-Af... Eine-unvergessliche-Nacht-in-Kenia.html). Although Randomhouse really didn't do anything for the book, it has now become my book with the greatest public resonance - which makes me happy, because I have put so much work, time, love and research into my twelfth book! I look forward to all feedback to mail@soerensieg.de. You can also order the book OH WIE SCHÖN IST AFRIKA right here on the site. My CD AMAZING AFRICA is now available on all streaming platforms:
https://listen.music-hub.com/nVJpM0
On February 23 there will be two Premieres on one day: On the Recorder Day Itzehoe the commissioned work UXOLO for recorder orchestra will be played for the very first time. And nearly at the same time Liesbeth Schlumberger and Claudia Leibovitz will play the Premiere of my African Suite No. 27 TELL THEM I'VE HAD A WONDERFUL LIFE for organ and recorder in the Église Protestante Unie de Étoile in Paris, just a few steps from the Arc de Triomphe. I am very happy, but I can only attend the Premiere in Paris! Besides I am proud to announce that the new CD of iFlautisti DOUCE DAMES JOLIE contains my African Suite No.15 WAKATI NJEMA in a wonderful recording. The marvelous CD is available in every CD-shop, on Spotify and soon also on this homepage!
I am looking forward to the Premiere of my African Suite No. 23 KAMPALA CIRCUS by the fabulous Hanke Brothers tomorrow in Böblingen! The concert is sold out - if you already have a ticket, I am very much looking forward to meet you there! The instrumentation piano, tuba, viola and recorder is as unique as the four brothers and the whole family. This will be great fun!
Many Thanks to Katharine Rawdon (flute), Raj Bhimani (piano) und António Carrhilo (recorder) for the fantastic Premiere of my 22th African Suite INSIDE KAMPALA in the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Bombay on November 27! Now I am looking forward to the recording of my African Suite No. 24, MATHONGO AMNANDI (sweet dreams) on the 14th and 15th of December in Amsterdam by the fantastic quintet SELDOM SENE, who commissioned the piece!
My biggest thanks to the Bass Recorder Consort of Simon Borutzki who played the Premiere of my Ingxunguphalo in the Genezareth Church in Berlin today! Now I am looking forward to the next Premiere: My African Suite No, 22 INSIDE KAMPALA will have Premiere on November 27 in the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Bombay! Syrinx : XXII is the name of the fantastic ensemble formed by Katharine Rawdon (Flute) , Raj Bhimani (piano) und António Carrhilo (recorder). Read more about this here: https://serenademagazine.com/series/know-your-composer/discover-soren-si... I hope to see you there!
Just published: On their first CD Alla turca the Berlin Recorder Orchestra, conducted by Simon Borutzki, plays works of Händel, Beethoven, Mozart, Tschaikowsky - and my first Arabic piece Jabal Ram. A terrific CD and a wonderful recording! And the next premiere will be on September 7: The amazing Hanke Brothers will play the Suite African Circus that I wrote for them, in an open air concert in Böblingen. I am very much looking forward to it!
The next concert dedicated to my works will be at a very special place: At the beautiful Mendelssohn-Saal in the music university where I studied 1992 till 1996! I even wrote a novel about my time there, but it was never published... fortunately!
Friday, May 18, 7pm. I already say thank you to Rosa Lord, Anja Micheely, Mona Wölfel, Anne Wollherr, Barbara Niestroy, Corinna Fröhlich, Ebba-Maria Künning-Zeijl und Anette Bahe who will be participating. I will play the Contrabass Recorder in Consolation and Ajo Oloyin and the piano in the first two movements of Imibala yenjabulo. Hope to see you there!
My biggest thanks to Katharine Rawdon, the Southern California Flute Virtuoso in Lisbon, for the fantastic Premiere of my very first Suite for Flute Solo SO LONG at the Porto Flute Festival! She played the three movements SO KIND, SO SAD and SO HAPPY with wonderful expression and brillant technique, and her idea to imitate a smooth jazz drums with her concert shoes will be adapted in the score! Now I am looking forward to the Premiere of my 22nd African Suite INSIDE KAMPALA by her trio Syrinxello in Lisbon.
My biggest thanks to Christiane Abt, Gabriele Hoeltzenbein, Ruth Ense and Ronald Poelman for the fantastic Premiere of SIKU SIYO MBALI (The day is not far) on January 14 in Oldenburg! Eight hands at one piano - only possible with a lot of practicing and four great (and slim) pianists like you! Congratulations also for the great percussion part in the beginning :-) Looking forward to hear it again! The next Premiere will be in Porto during the Porto Flute Festival on February 13 - my first Suite for Flute solo, played by the fabulous Katharine Rawdon!
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