Amplified Sonata 1821, (2021), for amplified ensemble: electric guitar, piano, trombone, double bass and percussion
	
Recording performed by Cyrill Ferrari (el. Guitar), Kristine Solli Oppegaard (trombone), Altin Volaj (piano), Johanna Pärli (double bass) and Cristiano Rios (percussion)
Auditorium, Hochschule der Künste Bern Concert Hall, June 10, 2021

Amplified Sonata 1821 (2021)

Recording performed by Megumi Nakajima (oboe/English horn), Mireia Pellisa Martín (saxophone), Kristine Solli Oppegaard (trombone), Agathe Quintin (tuba), Altin Volaj (piano I), Lilia Artemova (piano II), Jan Kubis (accordion), Severin Rusch (percussion/drum) 
Auditorium, Hochschule der Künste Bern Concert Hall Bern, June 2, 2022

Feed Water, for large ensemble (2022)

Altin Volaj (composition/concept)
Cristina Scapol (clarinets)
Auditorium, Hochschule der Künste Bern Concert Hall, January 20, 2022

Untitled #2 for clarinet, bass clarinet and instrument resonators (2021)

Recording performed by Altin Volaj (piano), Cristiano Rios (assistant I), Ludmilla Mercier (assistant II)
Auditorium, Hochschule der Künste Bern Concert Hall, January 20, 2021

Echoes of Distant Proximity, for Solo Piano and two Assistants (2020)

Live performance:
Christina Katidou, piano
Christina Mavini, Singer/actress
State Conservatory of Thessaloniki Concert Hall, June 19, 2015

Omaggio - For Solo Piano And Singer Or Actress (2015)

Live Premiere by the ensemble Logos
Thessaloniki State Concert Hall, Greece, May 17, 2015

Five Echoes of Distant Proximity  (2015)

For ensemble, singer/actress, and non-western instruments, "formless and boundless echoes of the universe" is an experimental multimedia group creativity project that unites stage performers/improvisers from different musical genres, languages, aesthetics, social and cultural rituals. In the process of deforming previous compositional forms and structures, the formless helps us understand how a group performance works in a live music setting. This project is like linguistic sonic dialogues and conversations among all participant. Through multiple resonances on stage, the composer intends to bring to the forefront performative and aesthetic practices and methods that address current and future personal composition and artistic goals. This project's music aesthetics and rituals range across a spectrum from the Balkan folk music "aura" to the gamelan music tradition, like a non-continental, archipelago thing or way of thinking.

Ensemble:
        Altin Volaj (composition/piano)
        Antoine Humberset (flute/alto flute
        Megumi Nakajima (oboe/English horn)
        Mireia Melisa Martín (saxophones)
        Arda Yurdusev (shakuhatchi)
        Agathe Quintin (tuba)
        Jan Kubis (accordion)
        Aleksandra Stankovic (singer/actress)
        Sebastian Baettig (electric guitar)
        Hekmat Kosmi (oud)
        Severin Rusch (percussions)

Formless And Boundless Echoes Of The Universe (2022)

for electric guitar and amplified double bass

Altin Volaj (composition)
Mauricio Carrasco (el. guitar), Jocelyne Rudasigwa (double bass)

Grosser Konzertsaal, Bern/Switzerland, September 10, 2021

Untitled #1 (2021)

Altin Volaj is a highly versatile artist with diverse skills, including composing, performing, improvising, teaching, and conducting research. Currently residing in Bern, Switzerland, Altin has earned widespread recognition for his contributions to various music festivals, seminars, and workshops across Europe and America.

Altin's compositions have been conducted by renowned conductors and performed by prestigious ensembles like the Kronos Quartet, the Bang on a Can All-Stars Ensemble, Darmstadt Summer School New Music Ensemble, the Greek Ensemble of New Music, the Alea III New Music Ensemble, the Left Bank Quartet, the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Maryland Opera Studio, and many others. He has collaborated with esteemed artists such as Canadian opera director Leon Major, Scottish contemporary vocalist Frances M Lynch, and German avant-garde singer/actress Frauke Aulbert.

Apart from his accomplishments as a composer, Altin has been actively involved in educational research and has conducted numerous courses, workshops, and seminars at renowned institutions like Boston University, the University of Maryland (College Park and Baltimore County campuses), the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre (CROMPT) at the University of Sussex, as well as more recently at the Hochschule der Künste Bern and Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.

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