Cello, Juan Aguilera Cerezo 

First performance: 05.07.2021 
Alcala la Real / Antiguo Convento La Trinidad (Spain) 

video score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqPBDfPWcMA

5 Ricercari for solo cello (2020)

Uptalk, for Bass Flute and Bass Clarinet. Bass Flute: Rebecca Lenton, Bass Clarinet: Theo Nabitch

Uptalk For Bass Flute and Bass Clarinet (unedited concert recording)

Movements (Connected)
I-Wordplay
II-Irony
----Interlude----
III-Self Mockery
IV- Spoiled Joke
----Interlude----
V-Inside Joke

The aspiration of this piece is to reflect humorous and theatrical parodies of Frédéric Chopin’s famous Ballade no. 1 in five individual sections. There is a circulating improvisational character in the piece. This character originates from elements of humour and the concept of joke. All humorous elements are accumulated with new ones, just like in a series of jokes that develop when two people are joking with each other and building up the pure idea of joke. This idea is represented within each unique sections of the piece separately.
The piece is neither a recomposition, nor a deconstruction. Just like in hip-hop culture, cutting some bits of a previously composed music, repositioning and filtering various passages, this piece quotates four different themes of Frédéric Chopin’s G minor Ballade and constructs a new piece with them, defamiliarizing the source and generating new meanings.

Parodies of a Ballade

Composer: Aslihan Sarikoski
Text: Hermann Hesse
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Martinkirkko, Turku, Finland - 19.04.2024

Conductor: Jutta Seppinen
Choir: Key Ensemble
www.keyensemble.fi

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Über meinen wilden Sinn
Ist ein Frieden ausgegossen;
Was ich war und was ich bin,
Ist in einen Traum zerflossen.

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Defekt (2023) - Opera for 4 soloists, puppet players and large ensemble

Mithatcan Öcal

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