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After the live recording CD of the original cast of our musical “Dällebach Kari” has been available for a few weeks and made a chart entry in the Swiss Album charts already, I’d like to present a few excerpts from this CD here. If you want to buy the CD, you can do so at Weltbild, exlibris or the know mp3 stores like amazon, Napster or itunes. Was wird us mir? The first song Dällebach sings which covers his transformation from child to adult. A positive up-tempo number. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Kuurlige Chutz The townfolk of Bern gather around Karis Barber shop and arrogantly sing about...

I’m very proud to announce that our Musical “Dällebach Kari” was this year’s big winner of the “Goldene imScheinwerfer”, winning in 4 out of 8 categories. It won the awards as “Best Musical”, “Best World Premiere”, “Best Main Actress” and “Best Musical Stage”. The winners of these prizes have been determined by the results of a voting by the audience and a jury. Our musical got 61% of the votes as “Best World Premiere” and has been favourited by the critics as well. Read more about the award at: http://www.imscheinwerfer.ch We are all very proud about what we achieved and I’m really looking forward for the show to go to Zurich in...

On November 16th, I went to Zurich to attend the world premiere of “Liebling, lass uns scheiden” for which I and Moritz wrote the score. The premiere took place in the really large cinema “Corso” in Zurich and was a big success. Here are some pictures from the premiere: You can listen to music from the soundtrack in the audio section or here: Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. People were cheering and applauding during the movie and there was a long applause after the movie....

On February 4th, 5th and 6th 2011, one of Switzerland’s most successful and famous bands “Lovebugs” will play concerts together with a full 80 piece symphonic orchestra in the Stadtcasino Basel, in Basel/Switzerland presenting their most famous songs in a new shape. I’m working on the show together with Moritz Schneider and Robert Emery, who will be conducting the show as well. We’re planning in quite some unusual stuff in the arrangements and change some of the songs quite radically. Ticket sales have started already so make sure to get one! More information on this...

Finally, after a long wait and lots of issues that needed to be sort out, the original cast CD of “Dällebach Kari – das Musical” is in stores today and can be bought, streamed and/or downloaded on itunes, Napster, amazon etc. so make sure to get your copy!   Also, we are very proud that our musical has been nominated 8 times for the Swiss theatre and musical prize “Goldener Scheinwerfer”. To vote for it, click here. Meanwhile, preparations for the indoor show in Zürich’s “Theater 11″ from March 17th – April 10th 2011 is going at full speed. You can preorder your tickets now at www.daellebachkari.ch so if you want to see the show (once again), just head over there and also have a look at the new...

A few days ago, video footage from the recording of my Violin Concerto for Anna Karkowska and the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios was made availabe on Youtube. It includes footage from the recording session as well as interviews and short clips from the recording and is available in High Definition. There are interviews included with Anna Karkowska, conductor Benjamin Wallfisch, Violinist expert Benjamin Hebbert, pianist and producer Kasha Karkowska, violinist and conductor Dennis Simons, me and others. You can have a look at the videos below: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: The recording  will be available fall of this...

A few days ago, the website of  the romantic comedy “Liebling, lass uns scheiden” for which I wrote the score for, was launched. You can have a look at the page at http://www.liebling-derfilm.ch/, which also features the first teaser trailer of the movie and information on the film. You can also become a fan on the facebook page of the movie and be informed about releases and other: http://www.facebook.com/Lieblinglassunsscheiden. To listen to some cues from the score, just head over to the AUDIO section. Here’s the teaser trailer: Below you can have a look at some stills and making of pictures of the...

After I get many emails with small questions about the workflow of a (film) composer or technical question, I thought it might be a good idea to launch a little new feature on my website. In the submenu “Tutorials” you’ll now find a new page called “Daily Film Scoring Bits” on which I’ll add a short trick, hint or advice from the field of film scoring every day (or at least I’ll try that). These small hints will be suitable for everybody involved with film music, either as composer or director/producer etc. I will publish these hints on twitter as well, so if you want to stay up-to-date, you might want to follow me on twitter. The link can be found to your left below the menu. For a direct link to the new section, click...

On August 28th we had the last show of “Dällebach Kari – das Musical” at the Thuner Seespiele which was of course a very sad moment for everybody as we all enjoyed the show so much and had so much fun during the last weeks. But apart from having the last show in Thun, there is no reason at all to be sad. With over 76,000 sold tickets, we set a new record for the Thuner Seespiele. No production since the show started in 2003 brought so many people to the stage and we got so much response from the audience that this was the best show they’ve ever seen at the Seespiele, so we are of course very proud! And the story doesn’t end here. Dällebach Kari – das Musical will move on! Next station will be Zurich in a lovely and very large...

As promised, here’s more music from our original soundtrack “Liebling, lass uns scheiden” with a bit of a holiday’s feeling. This track is a latin Bossa Nova which opens the movie together with a lovely animated opening credits sequence. We were fortunate enough to have a whole section of real string players at our fingertips giving us these nice charming background string sound. Liebling, lass uns scheiden – “It’s Love I Say” Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. If you want to listen to more music from the soundtrack, head over to the AUDIO section.