Commissioned by Duo Signal

Premiere : 08.2023 – Musik Hochschule Luzern (CH)

Commissioned by Valentine Michaud & Gabriel Michaud

Premiere : 09.08.2023 – Chapelle de Prigny, Les Moutiers en Retz (F)

Commissioned by Concours de Genève for the semi-final of the 2023 Flute Competition

The exploration of the qualities and sound possibilities of each of the three instruments, as well as their complementarity, mark the entire writing of this trio. Added to this are highly contrasting rhythmic energies – sometimes evoking certain forms of jazz or rock – which range from polyrhythmic to homorhythmic, from smooth to striated, from frenetic to suspended.

Premiere : 1 & 2.11.2023 – Concours de Genève– Geneva (CH)

Commissioned by Ensemble Contrechamps

« syr och syr » is a free interpretation of a haiku by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer.
A music in the form of a sound exegesis, shaped by its light, its colours and its contrasts,
animated by its figures and evocations.

Premiere : 13.05.2023 – Cathédrale St-Pierre, Geneva (CH) – Ensemble Contrechamps

Commissioned by Duo Klexs

Premiere : 21.04.2022 – Neubad, Luzern (CH) – Duo Klexs

Commissioned by HYPER DUO

on texts by Antonin Artaud, François Rabelais, Isidore Ducasse & Mathilde Wesendonck

Premiere : 02.06.2021 – Gare du Nord, Basel (CH) – HYPER DUO

Commissioned by ensembleTaG

Im Sommer 1936, innerhalb von zwei Monaten, malte Joan Miró die Serie von 27 « Masonites », nach General Francos Staatsstreich, der den Beginn des dramatischen Bürgerkriegs in Spanien markierte. Es sind dichte, schwere und wilde Werke, gemalt mit Raserei und großer formaler Freiheit; das Material ist roh und trocken, wie das kommende Drama.
Mirós Malerei hat mich schon immer fasziniert, und ich möchte dieser Werkreihe mit diesem Stück für Ensemble Tribut zollen. Ich probiere, seine flüchtige und explosive Energie einzufangen, seine Form in mehreren Variationen zu erforschen und diesen Schmerzensschrei, der von Schönheit transzendiert wird, anzuwenden.

Durant l’été 1936, en l’espace de deux mois, Joan Miró peint la série de vingt-sept tableaux « Masonites », après le coup d’État du général Franco qui marque le début de la dramatique guerre civile en Espagne. Ce sont des œuvres denses, graves et sauvages, peinte avec frénésie et une grande liberté formelle ; le matériau est brut et aride, comme le drame qui s’annonce.
La peinture de Miró m’a toujours fasciné et j’aimerais rentre hommage à cette série d’œuvres avec cette pièce pour ensemble. J’essaie d’en capter l’énergie fugace et explosive, d’en explorer la forme en multiples variations, et de m’approprier ce cri de douleur transcendé par la beauté.

Joan Miró in memoriam

Premiere : 06.05.2021 – Winterthur (CH) – ensembleTaG

Commissioned by Ling’Ring Lights

Henry Purcell in memoriam

Premiere : spring 2021

Commissioned by Soyuz21
in collaboration with ICST – Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, ZHdK

Premiere : 07.06.2019 – La Voirie, Biel (CH) – soyuz21

Commissioned by Duo Santorsa-Saccone

games of colors, shapes and spaces;
intermingled sounds – merging;
delicate and frenetic,
nocturnal.

Premiere : 13.12.2017 – Theater Pavillon, Luzern (CH) – Duo Santorsa-Saccone

Published by Note en Bulle Éditions

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Commissioned by Ensemble Vortex for Composers’ Next 2017

récitatif –
voix parlée, triturée, saturée,
accompagnée, plagiée, contrefaite –
commentaires, paraphrases,   divagations,       outrance   .

aria –
imitation, surenchère;
variation;
monodique euphorie tonitruante ou buccale

Première : 25.11.2017 – Fonderie Kugler, Genève (CH) – Ensemble Vortex

Commissioned by ORPHEUS – Swiss Chamber Music Competition as part of a springboard project by Pro Helvetia, Fondation Suisse pour la Culture, for Akmi Duo

This piece is first at all a tribute to Mikhaïl Bulgakov and his masterwork « The Master and Margarita » whose exuberant madness and sublime romanticism inspired the whole composition.
But it is also a homage to Classical and Romantic tradition of the Sonata for piano accompanied by an other instrument such as Brahms’s piano and clarinet or Beethoven’s piano and cello sonatas.

Premiere : 29.09.2017 – Adelboden Chamber Music Festival (CH) – Akmi Duo

Published by Note en Bulle Éditions

Commissioned by Too hot to hoot? for the project Soft Swinging…

i. Nature morte    for glockenspiel
ii. Besogneux souffleur    for alto saxophone
iii. Petit extra    for accordion
iv. À blanc    for baritone saxophone
v. Douces pédales    for harp
vi. Saxfest    for sopranino saxophone
vii. Boules    for bass tom

Premiere : 23.10.2015 – H95, Raum für Kultur, Basel (CH) – Too hot to hoot? chamber performing quartet

Commissioned by Too hot to hoot? for the project Metalliseos

The idea of game in music has always fascinated me. You can find it in throughout the ages – from Machaut and Mozart to Debussy and Kurtag – and especially in baroque music with its countless contrapuntal inventions, its motivic development or its ornamentation… It is full of expression, bliss, spirit and game!
In my Jeux, I try to recover those characteristics in my own language. Instead of playing with tonality, harmony and counterpoint, I use sound, space, shapes and colors to create a mosaic where the two instruments often form one single entity, sometimes are more independent but always complement.

Premiere : 29.08.2015 – Filter4, Basel (CH) – Too hot to hoot?

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Commissioned by Eunoia Quintett

[u/ɔ/ı/ə]
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[ɔn]
Intermezzo
[nu:]
[u:j]
Coda – [ju:‘nɔı.ə]

Premiere : 06.05.2014 – Gare du Nord, Basel (CH) – Eunoia Quintett

Published by BabelScores

Commissioned by Green Fairy’s duo (Patrick Stadler and Wiktor Kociuban)

The idea of game in music has always fascinated me. You can find it in throughout the ages – from Machaut and Mozart to Debussy and Kurtag – and especially in baroque music with its countless contrapuntal inventions, its motivic development or its ornamentation… It is full of expression, bliss, spirit and game!
In my Jeux, I try to recover those characteristics in my own language. Instead of playing with tonality, harmony and counterpoint, I use sound, space, shapes and colors to create a mosaic where the two instruments often form one single entity, sometimes are more independent but always complement.

Premiere : 23.06.2014 – Marburg (D) – Green Fairy’s duo

Published by BabelScores

Commissioned by reConvert project (Victor Barcelo and Roberto Maqueda Dominguez)

The serie Gawa is a research work, which revolves around two main concepts : on the hand, specialization as a main musical parameter and means of expression, and on the other, development of a kind of primitive mixed music.

Premiere : 31.08.2013 – Instituto Bernasconi, Buenos Aires (ARG)– reConvert project

Commissioned by Ensemble Batida

I like to envision my pieces like living creatures made of sounds, shapes and colours; organic and constantly growing. Nature, (either animal, vegetal or mineral) the grandness and the fragility of its cycles and its equilibrium are for me a constant source of inspiration.

The images of the serene Gingko Biloba and of its two-lobe leaves remain in the entire piece, in its form or its instrumentation for example. The two pianos symbolize both leaves’ symmetry and trunk of a sound entity with metallic or wooded changing tints, like foliage over time.

The liquid and shining impressionism of the Images and the refined and sometimes heartbreaking idiom of the last Sonates by Claude Debussy can also be found in this tribute to a great sound alchemist.

Premiere : 10.09.2013 – Concours Nicati, Hochschule der Künste Bern (CH) – Ensemble Batida

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Published by BabelScores

for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, percussion, viola (or violin) and cello

… Sweet love, away. is freely based on the 20th poem of James Joyce’s Chamber Music. I tried here to set to music its freshness and its erotism.

Chamber Music
XX
In the dark pinewood
    I would we lay,
In deep cool shadow
    At noon of day.

How sweet to lie there,
    Sweet to kiss,
Where the great pine-forest
    Enaisled is!

Thy kiss descending
    Sweeter were
With a soft tumult
    Of thy hair.

O unto the pinewood
    At noon of day
Come with me now,
Sweet love, away.

James Joyce

Premiere : 08.09.2012 – Festival Rümlingen (CH) – Ensemble Zone Expérimentale, cond. Marcus Weiss

Published by BabelScores

Commissioned by Jan Van Hoeke

Inspired by the american photographer Sally Mann’s pictures.

Freely inspired by « Streets » by Paul Verlaine.
I. Soho
II. Paddington

Premiere : 12.05.2011 – HEMU Lausanne (CH), Utopia 1 – Aude Pivôt (cello), Alexandra Bellon (percussion), Vincent Brunel (violin)

https://soundcloud.com/cexsaxo-duo/arabesque-iv-germination-by-kevin-juillerat

Published by BabelScores

Published by BabelScores