Don Quixote Concerto (2021), Memories of a knight errant for a pianist, his assistant and a chamber orchestra

Performed by SWR Sinphonieorchester conducted by Pablo Rus Broseta
Piano: Christoph Grund - Assistant and percussion: Jochen Schorer
Recorded live at ECLAT Festival in Stuttgart on February 6th, 2021

Don Quixote Concerto (2021), Memories of a knight errant

Performed by Aleksandra Bajde (voice/performance) and Janus Ensemble

19.05.2021 Sargfabrik in Vienna (AT)
Mix and mastering by Klaus Hallmann

kO[h] for female singer/performer and ensemble

"Self-Portraits in Imaginary Places" (2021)
a scenic musical work for a female singer/performer, ensemble, electronics, movement, video and light

Creative team
Aleksandra Bajde | concept, composition, voice, performance
Lili M. Rampre | choreography, movement
Conny Zenk | light architecture

in collaboration with
Isabella Forciniti | electronics, modular synthesizers
Schallfeld Ensemble
Elisa Azzará – fute, Szilárd Benes – bass clarinet, Patrick Skrilecz – piano, Mirko Jevtović – accordion, Alex Tentor – electric guitar, Lorenzo Derinni – violin, Myriam García Fidalgo – violoncello, Davide Gagliardi – sound director

Stefan Warum – audio recording

Recorded on 31.01.2022 in Theater am Lend in Graz. 

Recording funded by Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Republic of Austria

Self-Portraits In Imaginary Places

Nr. 53 (Trödelmarkt)

SUNSOAKED
for trumpet, tuba, violin, violoncello and electronics | 2022

Written for and performed by Ensemble MusikFabrik
Live recording, April 8, 2022
Recorded by Seth Torres
Mix and Mastering by Murat Çolak
Artwork by Nazlı Cengiz

SUNSOAKED (2022) / Ensemble MusikFabrik

performed by PHACE - Ivana Pristasova (violin), Roland Schueler (cello) & Mathilde Hoursiangou (piano) at SONEMUS Festival Sarajevo (Okt.2022)

Reinhard Fuchs - Tox for piano trio (2012/22)

"Homme qui chavire" for ensemble, 2023 
commissioned and performed by Ensemble Contrechamp

Reinhard Fuchs_Homme qui chavire for ensemble, 2023

lullaby(e) for
Flute (picc. Bass), Clarinet (Bb, Bb Bass), Percussion, Piano, Accordion, Violin, Violoncello, Double Bass and electronics

As the title suggests, this work serves as the final lullaby one hears. The catastrophic aftermath of the recent earthquake in Turkey has profoundly affected even those who were not directly impacted by the disaster. This composition is the product of the thoughts that have occupied my mind since that fateful day.
The tape segment of the piece involves the manipulation of a recorded excerpt from the Turkish lullaby "Dandini Dandini Dasdana."

The piece was commissioned by Schallfeld Ensemble

performed by Schallfeld Ensemble
live electronics: Davide Gagliardi
conductor: Leonhard Garms
concert recording, November 18
ÜBER WEGE SAISON KONZERT IV: WACHSEN
Schaumbad - Freies Atelierhaus Graz, Austria

lullaby(e) - Schallfeld Ensemble

Uijin Oh, piano & realization
Han Lee & Sangbin Rhie, sound director

Asian Première, 22 August 2024, IPAC Art Hall, Seoul
Recording & Mixing/Mastering support by Han Lee

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Tenebrae II – Luigi Nono in memoriam / Uijin Oh, piano

Tongue and Trace
for soprano and contrabass flute

Tongue and Trace engages with ecstasy in its dual form; as sacred rapture and as 
sensual intensity. The piece moves within this tension, where the voice becomes 
both vessel and threshold — carrying memory, desire, and rupture in equal measure.

Fragments of text drawn from diverse sources — including Hildegard von Bingen and 
Anaïs Nin — evoke this polarity: spiritual elevation and embodied longing. Their words, 
lifted into sound, create a layered texture in which devotion and desire resonate 
without resolution.

The piece unfolds as a multilingual mosaic — in Latin, Italian, Latvian, German, French, 
and English — where no single language governs. Meaning remains fluid, shaped 
by breath, by musical form, and by the grain of the voice itself. Ecstasy here is not singular 
or transcendent, but fractured and intimate — something traced across the tongue, 
left behind in its wake. Tongue and Trace gives form to this condition: luminous, unstable, 
and composed from what cannot be fully held.

Performers:
Elina Viluma-Helling, Soprano
Alessandro Baticci, Contrabass flute

Live recording from 28 August 2025, REAKTOR Vienna
Recording: Georg Zichy

This piece was commissioned by Cantando Admont. 
https://www.cantando-admont.com/

Tongue and Trace (2025) | Viluma-Helling & Baticci (Cantando Admont)

Recorded live at the CUNY Graduate Center

the robot in red by Klaus Lang (Live at CUNY Graduate Center)

I am an Austrian composer of Turkish origin, working across genres from chamber music to music theater and multimedia. My music is dynamic and expressive, crafted to captivate listeners with rich narratives and immersive flow.

Tongue and Trace (2025) | Viluma-Helling & Baticci (Cantando Admont)

Emre Sihan Kaleli

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