Blog

  • March

    – Premiering Simon Løffler with Ensemble Musikfabrik in WDR Funkhaus. Great honor!

    – Tour with ÉRMA Ensemble in Kulturbunker Aachen and Kunststation Sankt Peter Cologne

    – Sessions with Eftichis Vittorakis and Yeji Jung for upcoming album recording

    – Sessions with Sebastian Zuléta and Kento Ishikawa

  • February

    – Mandagsklubben with Børge Brustad, Wei Ting Tseng and Petter Asbjørnsen

    – CD-production with Cologne Percussion Orchestra and Georgia Koumara at WDR Kammermusiksaal

    – Europe-tour with Emil Bø. Cologne, Antwerpen, Amsterdam

    – Album project with Eftichis Vittorakis

    – Recording session with Aaron Lumley and Emil Bø

    – Jam with Philip Zoubek, Matteo Traverso and Emil Bø

    – nyMusikk Østfold Mikrophonie 1 with TUTTI 157

  • Januray

    – Performing in Paris at Maison Heinrich Heine with Vittoria Quartaro and Jinwook Jung

    – Performing dobbelt und dreifach determiniert by Mathias Spahlinger

    – Premiering new piece by Izumi Maekawa for percussion and electronics

    – Observing rehearsals with Ensemble Musikfabrik and Rebecca Saunders

    – Rehearsing Norwegian Folkdrumming with Åsmund Soldal – Concert at Gorrlaus in Stavanger coming up

    – Lesson with Thomas Moore and Dirk Rothbrust

    – Performing Cage Child of Tree by John Cage at Museum Ludwig

  • November

    – Hosting concert with Periferien in Oslo 1. nov. Liv Kristin Holmbergs Pustens Liturgi and Hsiao-Tung Yuan (percussion) Fantastic team!

    – Recording new piece by Yngwie Janshegers with Koryfe Quartet: Tomas Nannestad (guitar), Eivind Leifsen (sax), Maren-Sofie Nyland Johansen (accordion). Recorded by Cato Langnes in Oslo.

    – ‘Having never written a single note for percussion’ by James Tenney in Aachen.

    – Performing new pieces at festival Zett Em with Studio Musikfabrik

    – Preparing Mikophonie 1  with Dirk Rothbrust for a concert in Moss

     

  • October

    – Tryout at Ensemble Musikfabrik with Dirk Rothbrust and Simon Løffler for performance in March

    – Hosting workshop with Alexandru Silian: How to play Brian Ferneyhoughs Bone Alphabet

    – Portrait concert with George Lewis                                         

    – Impro-concert at: The Site of Fluid Ideas with Georg Wissel (clarinet/sax) and Dusica Cajlan (piano)

    – Jam with Philip Zoubeck, Robert Landfermann and Ben Jones

    – Beginning Paris-project with Vittoria Quartararo and Jinwook Jun

  • September

    – Performing at the concert of Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Stipendium winner Aline Müller. Piece inside a plastic ball at Kunststation Sankt Peter in Köln

    – Premiering trio-piece by Carlotta Rabea Joachim together with Hagen-Goar Bornmann (vocal), and Max Grimm (piano) in Bonn at Beethoven Kammermusiksaal

    – Performing with improvisation at LOFT with Philip Weyand (piano) and Ben Jones (saxophone)

    – Performing in Ventana Saal in Köln with Alvaro Banon Monje and Carlota Ramos

    – Jam with Robert Landfermann and Philip Zoubek

    – Norwegian-drumming session with Åsmund Soldal and Elvin Ingeborgrud Berg

  • August

    – Concert at NIMM-platz in Cologne, new repetoire within tonal percussion project

    – Premiering piece by Jaeduk Kim in Cologne                   

    – Rehearsals with Koryfe, preparing recording of new piece by Yngwie Janshegers (Belgium)

    – Teaching percussion students and new music students in Ulsteinvik in Norway

    – Recording with Børge Brustad and Elena Perales Andrew

    – Jam with legendary tanbur-player Arash Moradi. Fantastic!

  • Darmstädter Ferienkurse

    Great honor to participate in the legendary course for new music in Darmstadt. 

    – Tyshawn Sorey gave workshop on gesture language – Autoschediasm. Based on concepts from Anthony Braxton and Buth Morris.

    Excerpt from Autoschediasms (my solo), recorded by the local radio in Darmstadt:

    – Giving talk about my work on tonal cymbal playing

       

    – Performing trio percussion piece by Natascha Diels with guiding from herself.

    – Workshop with Simon Steen-Andersen, developing new piece with Laila Arafah (composer), Aditya Ryan Bhat (percussion) and Jeong Hyun (percussion). For the work, Laila got an honorable mention in connection with Darmstadt Kranichstein Preis.

    – Participating in Kalun Leung‘s sensor concept

    – Lessons with Jennifer Torrence and Håkon Stene

    – Workshop with Jeong Hyun in Korean Traditional drumming

    – Working on just intonation led by Elias Schomers

    – Impro-set with Elena Perales Andreu (clarinet) and Børge Brustad (violin)

    – Impro-set with Kalun Leung (trombone), Kyle Hutchins (saxophone), Carrie Frey (viola)

     

     

     

  • June 16th-30th

    – Periferien 2026 program meeting

    – Jam session with Vittoria Quartararo 

    – Concert in Ventana Hall (Cologne) with ColLAB ensemble. Pieces by Stockhausen, Brandenburger, Ingvill Langgård among others.

    – Concert with Ben Jones and Philip Weyand at IMPAKT Bruitkasten 

    – Playing improvisastion at Motvind Festival as part of Emil Bøs crew. Playing opening concert with Selma Edwards Granly, Børge Brustad and Emil Bø

    – Co-leading traditional norwegian drumline in Drammen at Kulturytring

    drumline in Drammen. Leaders Sebastian Lindland, Kjell Tore Innervik and Magnus Haugen

    – Representing the Norwegian Traditional Drum in the legendary Norwegian Folk Music-competion Landskappleiken at Eidfjord. Perfect days!

  • June 1st-15th

    – Concert at Moers Festival. New pieces by William Nortlich (Canada) and Maya Dunitz (Israel)

    – Concert at LOFT (Cologne). New pieces by Eftichis Vittorakis (Greece)

    – Jam with Robert Landfermann (bass) and Philip Zoubek (piano, electronics)

    – Periferien program-meeting

    – Rehearsals with Christian Brandenburger

  • May

    – Making installation with Brigitta Munterdorf and composers from HFMK in Köln

    – Performing in AchtBrücken-festival in Kölner Philharmonie. New pieces by Alex Hren and Aline Müller

    – Performing in Frequenz-festival in Kiel. New pieces by Di Zhao, Christian Brandeburger and Adrian Laugsch – Observing The Köln Chaos Orchester in Musikfabrik

    – Observing rehearsals with Georges Aperghis and Ensemble Musikfabrik. Premier for AchtBrücken

  • April

    – Mixing live-album for project with Philip Weyand and Ben Jones

    – Rehearsing Berio’s ‘Linea’, quartet

    – Performing Stockhausen’s ‘Zyklus’ and Cage’s ‘Variations’ and ‘Radio’Music at HFMK 100-year celebration

    – Hosting workshop in norwegian traditional drumming in Cologne with Åsmund Soldal

    Studio of Christian Heck

  • March

    – Performing big zyklus by Izumi Maekawa for sinfonietta

    – Concert in Krefeld with Studio Musikfabrik

    – Solo-set at IMPAKT-collective – bruitkasten

    – Lessons with Dirk Rothbrust

  • February

    – Performing 3 sinfonietta-pieces and 1 duo by Jinwook Jung. Duo with Alvaro Monje.

    – Performing 4-hour long piece ‘For Philip Guston’ by Morton Feldman with Koryfe Trio at Interpuls-festival

    – Performing ‘Music for 18 musicians’ by Steve Reich with Kjell Tore Innervik at Interpuls

    – Studio and concert ‘Flerbruket’ with new band LADYBUG consisting of Erlend ALbertsen (bass), Tore Ljøksøy (drums), Joao Gato (sax), Paul Prasseln (guitar) and me (perc)

    – Hosting 2 concerts for Concert-series Periferien. Program: asamisimasa (Norway) + Concept Store Quartet (Switzerland)

  • January

    – Working on new piece with belgian composer Yngwie Janshegers

    – Concert at LOFT with Paulo Alvares – Concert at HFMK 100-year anniversary. Revision of piece by Carlos Lopes + improvisation

    – Orchestra with Berg Violin-concerto + Mahler 4

    – Debut-concert of new project with pianist Philip Weyand and saxophonist Ben Jones at Jazz Against The Machine (JATM)

    – Rehearsing sinfoniettapice by Jinwook Jung