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first edition premiered by Yarn/Wire on June 20, 2021
Ridgewood, Queens, NY

revised version premiered by Yarn/Wire on April 23, 2023
NUNC! 5 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

pianos: Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer
percussion: Russell Greenberg and Sae Hashimoto

It's All Real, for two piano, two percussion

(lamentations) for éliane

St Swithin's Day Storm

Before The Storm (feat. Dr Nigel Meredith)

Performed by Annie Gårlid, Mathilde Conley, and Nathan Plante
Texts from James Joyce and Hermann Broch
Samples recorded by Noa Frenkel, Mathilde Conley, Andrea van Noord, Annie Gårlid, Constanze Priester, Max Murray and Samuel Stoll - 2014

Max Murray | Szene nach Aktion / for alto, two piccolo trumpets, and fixed media

Tilt Brass performs overlays/smear in 2015, somewhere in New York City or Brooklyn

overlays/smear (2015)

Performed by Olivia Stahn [soprano], Mathilde Conley, Florian Baccuet, Paul Hübner, Chloë Abbott [trumpets], Samuel Stoll, Morris Kliphuis [horns], Wojciech Jeliński, Weston Olencki, Maxine Troglauer [trombones], Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir [harp] Matthias Engler [percussion], Max Murray [conductor]

Max Murray | Schaufeln | Brayen — Rain / for soprano, nine brass instruments, harp, and percussion

Commission: Südwestrundfunk for the Donaueschingen Musiktage 2022

Live recording of the world première, Musica Nova Helsinki, 3 March 2023.

Performers:
Mattie Barbier, trombone
Weston Olencki, trombone
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Janne Nisonen, conductor

Photo: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

where the dark earth bends (2022, rev. 2023), for RAGE Thormbones, orchestra, and electronics

Juste Janulyte, Unanime, long version for 8 trumpets
The Monochrome Project, live @ festival Romanische Sommer, Cologne 6th June 2021
Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Mathilde Conley, Rike Huy, Bob Koertshuis, Nathan Plante, Markus Schwind, Laura Vukobratović

Juste Janulyte, Unanime, The Monochrome Project

for ten brass 

written for Apparat, for the program GVILD MVSIK (September 2023). 

tpt: Paul Hübner, Mathilde Conley, Chloë Abbott, Florian Baccuet
hn: Samuel Stoll, Morris Kliphuis 
tbn: Wojciech Jeliński, Weston Olencki, Maxine Troglauer 
tba: Max Murray

more information: www.westonolencki.com/sonata

Sonata pian e forte [2022-23]

commissioned by and written for TAK Ensemble. 

live recording from first performance at Roulette Intermedium: May 21, 2024 (Brooklyn, NY) 

Laura Cocks, flutes 
Madison Greenstone, clarinets 
Charlotte Mundy, voice, amplifier, tesla coil 
Marina Kifferstein, violin 
Ellery Trafford, percussion 

much more information here: 
www.westonolencki.com/when-the-great-fires

when the great fires were lit on the other side of the ocean [2022-24]

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

The purple fuchsia bled upon the ground. (2023–24)
Commission: Westdeutschen Rundfunk & Wien Modern

Live Recording: Pierre-Laurent Aimard & WDR Orchestra (cond. Elena Schwarz), 12 May 2024, Cologne

Photo: WDR/Holger Talinski

The purple fuchsia bled upon the ground. (2023–24), for piano and orchestra

first performance 27/11/2024
Ensemble Apparat. KM28 Berlin.

Mathilde Conley- trumpet
Samuel Stoll- french horn
Weston Olencki, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, Mattie Barbier- trombone
Max Murray- tuba

is this the land i wish death to find me

N.O. Rising by Kim Scharnberg. Performed by Michael Brest, Will Timmons and Eunae Han

N.O. Rising

Harbinger (2020) for trombone and electronics

I make music. mostly with a trumpet. member of ensemble apparat, ensemblekollektiv berlin, and the monochrome project, among others.

is this the land i wish death to find me

mattiebarbier

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