Oliver Schneller

ORCHESTER

Metall (2007-10) for large orchestra (in progress)
Commissioned by SWR
Duration: 9 minutes
First performance: October 2010, Stuttgart
SWR Orchestra Stuttgart

Tightrope Dancer (1996) for orchestra
Duration: 9 minutes
First performance: August 18, 1999, Seiji Ozawa Hall – Tanglewood
TMC Orchestra, cond. by Stefan Asbury

ENSEMBLE (5-16)

Stratigraphie II (2009-10) for guit, perc, pf vn, va, vc and six loud speakers
Duration: 13 minutes
Commissioned by: Commande d’etat du ministère de la culture de France
First performance: – March 10, Festival Ars musica Bruxelles
Ensemble Cairn

Paysage sauvage (2009) for tp, trb, 4 perc and loudspeakers
Duration: 7 minutes
Commissioned by WDR Köln / Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik
First performance:    April 24, 2009, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik
Ensemble S, Oliver Schneller

Musica ficta (2008) for fl, ob, cl, pf, perc and electronics
Duration: 9 minutes
Commissioned by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Wissenschaft Berlin
First performance:    November 14, 2008, Wien Modern 2008
Ensemble Mosaik, Oliver Schneller

Anaclasis (2008) for recorder, trp, sho, pf, vc
Duration: 8 minutes
Commissioned by Takefu International Music Festival
First performance:    September 8, 2008, New Horizons Concert Series Takefu, Japan
Takefu Soloists, Ken-ichi Nakagawa

Stratigraphie I (2007) for 6 instruments and 6 loud speakers
Duration: 14 minutes
Commissioned by DeutschlandRadio / Deutsche Akademie Rom
First performance:    January 21, 2008, Ultraschall Festival Berlin
OENM, Johannes Kalitzke

Clair-Obscur (2005-06) for 7 instruments and live-electronics
Duration: 16 minutes
Commissioned by Maerzmusik / Berliner Festspiele
First performance:    March 22, 2002, Kammermusiksaal Berliner Philharmonie, Maerzmusik 2006 ICTUS

Jardin des Fleuves (2003-04) for 16 instruments, two Timées and live-electronics
Duration: 17 minutes
Commissioned by IRCAM/Centre Pompidou
First Performance:    – Dec. 11, 2004, Tremplins, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre-André Valade

Diastema (2001/02) for 14 instruments
Duration: 12 minutes
Commissioned by MATA Festival (New York) and Nouvel Ensemble Modern (Montréal)
First performance:     April 12, 2002, Orensanz Foundation MATA Festival of  Contemporary Music New York
NEM
Phantom Islands (2000) for 14 instruments and electronics
Duration: 11 minutes
Commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center / Harvard University (Paul Fromm Award) for the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music 2000
First Performance:     – August 13, 2000, Seiji Ozawa Hall – Tanglewood
TMC Fellows
Revised version:    – May 19, 2001, Alte Oper – Frankfurt
Ensemble Modern
– December 9, 2002, Centre Pompidou – Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain

Aqua Vit (1999) for 8 instruments
Duration: 8 minutes
Performances:     – April 11, 1999 – New York City
Speculum musicae

SOLO -> QUARTETT

Rugged Space (2009) for accordeon, piano and spatialized sound
Duration: 12 minutes
Commissioned by ZKM Karlsruhe
First performance:    – December 11, 2009 Festival Piano+, ZKM Karlsruhe
Florian Hoelscher / Anne Holmach

Resonant Space (2007) for 2 pianos and 2 percussions
Duration: 12 minutes
Commissioned by WDR Cologne / Witten Tage für Neue Kammermusik
First Performance:    – April 20, 2007, Witten Tage für Neue Kammermusik
Ensemble 2 x 2

Track & Field (2006-07) for piano, four loud speakers and video-projection
Duration: 11 minutes
Commissioned by „piano optophonique“ with funds provided by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin
First Performance:    – January 20, 2007, Ultraschall-Festival Berlin,
Heather O’Donnell

Twilight Dialogues II (2006) for flute, clarinet, viola and piano
Duration: 10 minutes
First Performance:    – Dec 15, 2006, Auditorium Roma,
Ensemble Recherche

Die Unendliche Feinheit des Raumes (2005)
„theatrum sonorum“ for organ, hrn, perc & tuba, eight loud speakers and video projection
Duration: 58 minutes
First Performance:    – Oct. 14, 2005, 4. Magdeburger Concerte, Kuturfestung Mark, Magdeburg

String Space (2005) for violin, viola, cello and live-electronics
Duration: 8 minutes
Commissioned by Ars Nova Music Festival (SWR)
First Performance:     April 16, 2005, Ars Nova Rottenburg
KNM Berlin

This is what I am seeing here (2005) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Duration: 8 minutes
Commissioned by Radio France
First Performance:     May 27, 2005, Radio France – Paris
Solistes de l’Ensemble Intercontemporain

And Tomorrow (2004) for piano and live-electronics
Duration: 8 minutes
Commissioned by Puffin Foundation New York
First Performance:     March 16, 2004, Maerzmusik Festival 2004, Berlin
Heather O’Donnell

Twilight Dialogues I (2003) for flute, clarinet, viola and percussion
Duration: 9 minutes
First Performance:    – May 15, 2003, International Composers Review Belgrade,
musikFabrik

Five Imaginary Spaces (2001) for piano and live-electronics
Duration: 12 minutes
First Performance:     – October 26, 2001, Espace de projection, IRCAM – Paris
Heather O’Donnell
Topoi (2000) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Duration: 9 minutes
Commissioned by Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA
First Performance:     – October 4, 2000, Kennedy Center – Washington, DC Elm City Ensemble

Trio (1999) for accordion, cello and piano
Duration: 9 minutes
Commissioned by Composers Concordance, Inc. New York
First Performance:    – February 25, 1999, Kosciuszko Foundation – New York City
Mikko Luoma; John Whitfield; Heather O’Donnell

Suite for Four (1999) for Baroque cello, flute, oboe and trumpet
Duration: 15 minutes
Commissioned by CrossSound Festival
First Performance:     – July 10, 1999, Northern Lights Church – Juneau, Alaska
Phoebe Carrai; Sally Schlichting; Jan Coldwell; Rick Trostel, cond. by Oliver Schneller

Joyce Paraphrases (1998) for amplified string quartet and computer-generated tape
Duration: 25 minutes
Commissioned by ARTS&SOCIETY, Inc. with funds provided by Meet the Composer/New England
Foundation for the Arts
Performances:     – June 14, 1998, Katherine Cornell Theatre – Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Whitman String Quartet

Big City Divertimento (1995) for saxophone quartet
Duration: 9 minutes
First performance:     – April 4, 1995, New England Conservatory – Boston
Lenie Saxophone Quartet

Sieben Bilder (1995) for piano
Duration: 13 minutes
First Performance:     – November 20, 1995, Jordan Hall – Boston
Sharon Quo

ELEKTRO-AKUSTISCHE WERKE

Cell Cycle (2007) 8.1 Channel electroacoustic composition with video projection
Duration: 11 minutes
Commissioned by Karnatic Lab Festival Amsterdam
First performance: Karnatic Lab Festival 07, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam , April 14, 2007

Voice Space (2007) 6 Channel interactive sound installation
Commissioned by German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome – Gropius Bau Berlin, March 1, 2007

Proteus (1999) 2 Channel electroacoustic composition
Duration: 11 minutes
Commissioned by Janet McShain
First performance: „EARTHDAY ‘99“ Philadelphia Academy of the Arts – Philadelphia

Bell/Man (1998) 2 Channel electroacoustic composition
Duration: 7 minutes
First performance: May 2, CMC Concert Miller Theatre – New York City

VOKALMUSIK

Candidum lilium (1997) for 2 sopranos, 2 tenors bass voices, and live electronics
Duration: 10 minutes
First performance:     – June 14., Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg –
Ensemble labia vocalia, Klangregie: Oliver Schneller

Alice Setting (1997) for soprano, choir, percussion, strings and piano
Duration: 6 minutes
First performance:     – May 1997, Graduate Center CUNY – New York City
CUNY Music Students, cond. by Gil Peres

Three Songs after Hopkins, Shelley and Meredith (1994) for soprano and piano
Duration: 8 minutes
First performance:     – April 30, 1995, Jordan Hall – Boston
Monika Yunus; Kate Bowan

GEMEINSCHAFTSWERKE

Taswir – an Atlas of Sounds (2009): 42 Channel Ambisonics Polyphonic Sound Installation
Commissioned by ha’atelier Werkstatt für Kunst und Philosophie Berlin / Berliner Festspiele
November 2009 – January 2010 Gropiusbau Berlin

Lichtkörper (2009): 5.1 Channel Audio-visual Installation
Commissioned by Netzwerk Neue Musik Dresden
Collaboration with Alexander Polzin
November 2009, Societätstheater Dresden

IO (2006): 5.1 Channel Installation
Duration: 24 minutes
Commissioned by Curtis Anderson / Gallery Jule Kewenig, Cologne
First performance: „IO“ Galeria Jule Kewenig, Palma de Majorca, Oct. – Nov. 2006

Cento Correnti (2006) 20.1 Channel Sound Installation
Loop duration: 25 minutes
Collaboration with Iris Dupper, Funds provided by BMW Rome
German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome June – Dec. 2006

Ritratto Romano (2006): Soundtrack to a video work of Christoph Brech
Duration: 16minutes

Baby Duett (2006-09): Soundtracks to five video works by Swiss video artists Eberli/Mantel
Duration: 27 minutes

Passage (2004): Soundtrack to a video work of Almut Determeyer
Duration: 4 minutes

FRÜHE WERKE

Drei Sätze für Streichtrio (1992) for violin, viola and cello
Duration: 7 minutes
First performance:     – March 1993, Aufenanger-Schülerkonzert – Bonn
Conservatory students

Chip Maze I/II (1991) for computer-generated tape
Duration: 4 minutes
First presented April 1991 at the Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung – Darmstadt

Seelenwanderung (1989) for two flutes, two clarinets and two French horns
Duration: 6 minutes
Commissioned by Markus Parusel
First performance:     – January 1988, Gallerie Parusel – Bonn
Conservatory students

Incidental music to Berthold Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1984) for voice and piano
Duration: 8 minutes
First performance:     – April 1984, International School Manila, Philippines