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In summer I co-orchestrated a show of the soul singer Seven, his band and the 21st Century Orchestra. As an addition to the mp3 downloads that are available at sevenmusic.ch you can now also download and watch videos from the concert on the same website and on Youtube.   Below you can watch all videos from the show:   I Know/Golden Stairs Yes Keep Your Head Up Wake Up Lisa One...

I’m very happy to announce that soul singer Seven has made available a big bunch of the songs that I co-orchestrated available to download for free from his site. The concert took place in September of this year in the KKL in Lucerne, Switzerland, being sold out two times. To download the songs, head over to www.sevenmusic.ch and click on the Download link at the bottom of the page. The download will be available until January 7th. Below, you can see a video preview of the show.

On 19th & 20th September, Swiss Soul singer SEVEN and the 21st Century Orchestra joined forces for two concerts, presenting SEVEN’s music in a new form. I had the pleasure to work on the new arrangements together with Robert Emery and Moritz Schneide, co-orchestrating the 90 minute show for band and 70 piece orchestra. The show was a huge success, being sold out already weeks before the actual events. The audience’s and press’ reactions were enthusiastic, standing throughout the whole second half of the show. Fortunately, the event has been recorded and there will be a CD release very soon. There are already a few videos circulating in the web from the event with not the best sound/video quality but they give an impression about the...

I am currently working on a new very exciting concert event. Soul/pop singer SEVEN will join forces with the 21st Century Orchestra and perform a show together presenting highlights of his songs. Together with Robert Emery and Moritz Schneider, I’m working on the project, writing orchestrations for a 90min show by a 60+ member orchestra and a band. The concert will be played on September 20th and 21st already so it’s quite a tight time frame to write all this music, which is great fun and a real blast to put into new symphonic shapes. Tickets for the shows are available...

After more than a year with the old layout, which had a few issues regarding speed, responsiveness and also a bit dodgy typography, I decided to switch to a new layout. However, the structure of the site is exactly the same, there are a few new gimmicks (e.g. facebook comments) but you’ll find everything exactly at the same place where it used to be, so nothing to worry about. There are still a few issues I need to fix and polish but apart from that, I’m personally very happy about the new design. Let me know what you think.

If you are a frequent user of Last.fm you might be delighted to hear that I just did a complete update of my profile there and put up a lot of audio files there. Click HERE to go to my Last.fm page.

I’m very proud to announce that our musical “Dällebach Kari” has won this year’s Prix Walo as best musical and theatre production. Also, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, who played the Dällebach Kari in Thun and Zurich has won the prize in the category “Best Actor”. I’m really proud of what we achieved and about the great reception for our musical. The “Prix Walo” is the most important award in the Swiss entertainment world and is called the “Swiss Oscar”. It has been awared for the 37th time this year. I’m looking forward to seeing the show on more stages in the future. There are quite a few options in the discussion where it should go next. Stay tuned for...

After I get a lot of emails by people asking me whether I can send them some of my music as score sheets for studying purposes, I decided to put up a little section on my homepage which allows you to read through full orchestral score sheets and listen to the orchestral recordings of these cues. I will add more score sheets from time to time, make sure to become a fan on Facebook or follow me on Twitter to be informed about the latest additions. You can access the new section by navigating to Tutorials-Score Sheets in the navigation menu or by clicking...

After quite a few months went by since the recording of my Violin Concerto for Anna Karkowska and the London Symphony Orchestra in July 2010, finally a CD has been released which contains the concerto together with selections from Paganini, Wienawski and Sarasate. The 2 CD set “Virtuosity” has been released by the lable Starlight Classics and can be ordered on their site: http://www.starlightclassics.com/. You can get more information about the CD as well as listen to some audio snippets on the site. The CD comes together with a nice paper digipak including a booklet with a few notes on the recording as well as the creation process of my concerto. However, as happy as I am about the release of this CD, I want to clearly express that I do not endorse...

On March 17th, our musical “Dällebach Kari” had its premiere in Theater 11 in Zurich where it will be shown 8 times a week from March 17 till April 10th. We had to manage a challenging transition from the big open air stage into a indoor theatre. I’m very proud of how well the show turned out and the reactions of the audiences and press confirm that our musical not only works well with the impressive nature background from the Thuner See which we had last summer. The show itself is pretty much the same as it was in Thun, there were only a few changes in the cast, the main one being a new Alcohol played by Ethan Freeman who gives this role a new character. If you happen to be in Zurich within the next weeks, make sure to watch the musical! Below...