Work | The Artistic Portfolio of Stepha Schweiger

Tree Torn Mind

Score available

2023

For double bass clarinet, electric guitar, violoncello, live electronics, fixed electronics and video

Commissioned by the Heroines of Sound Festival Berlin ‍

Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin at Radialsystem, 2023

Heroines of Sound

Live Snippet

audiovisual

ensemble / orchestra

music theatre

The Woman at the Store

Score available

2022 – 2025

Singer, baritone, narrator, dancer, trombone, saxophone, accordion, percussion/drumset, cello, double bass, electronics and video

60:00 min

Interdisciplinary music theater based on the short story of the same name by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

Premiere 2025, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, SONIC VISIONS Festival Reutlingen

Trailer

AMB e. V.

music theatre

ensemble / orchestra

audiovisual

Rook Organ

Score available

2019

Organ

Adaptation of Rook Song for Thomas Noll

St. Emmaus Church, Berlin, November 2019

solo

Take a Seat

Score available

2019

Voice, electronics, performance

frei

Commissioned by Pacifico Exercises II / Natalia Pschenitschnikowa: electronics, voice, performance / Mariangela Tinelli: choreography and dance / Supported by INM Berlin

Acker Stadt Palast Berlin, April 2019

music theatre solo

Rook Song

Score available

2019

flute, clarinet, accordion, violin, violoncello

For ensemble, electronics and video / By the Ensemble via nova Weimar / Commissioned by pyramidale #18 | awareness of time

2019

Watch Video

audiovisual

ensemble / orchestra

music theatre

Drunken Trees

Score available

2018

Fixed electronics

Commissioned by Pacifico Exercises / Funded by INM Berlin / Music for a choreography

Acker Stadt Palast Berlin, 2018

Read the article

music theatre

electronic with / without instruments

ver.blich

Score available

2018 (new version)

For double bass and live electronics/fixed electronics

Commissioned by Steirischer Herbst Graz / for “Guts'n'Faders”, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka and Peter Venus / newly arranged for the IKO loudspeaker of the IEM Graz (Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics)

musikprotokoll at Steirischer Herbst Graz, 2018

Spotify

strings

solo

Koi Song

Score available

2017

Performance with voice and electronics, with fragments of the Women's March by Ethel Smyth

For Anna Clementi

Brazil, 2017

solo

Pas d Asphodeles

Score available

2017 / 2018

Trumpet and electronics

For Nathan Plante

solo

Connecting...

Score available

2017

Sketch for 4 electric organs and fixed electronics

Premiered by Thomas Noll, Nathan Plante, Silke Lange, Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler (organs) and Ferdinand Breil (electronics)

St. Elisabeth Berlin (Kultur Büro Elisabeth), 2017

ensemble / orchestra

Koi

Score available

2017

Electronics

Text: Anna Hetzer, speaking voice: Stepha Schweiger

Acker Stadt Palast Berlin, 2017

music theatre

electronic with / without instruments

The Mark on the Wall

Score available

2017

Singer/speaker, baritone/speaker, dancer, clarinet/bass clarinet, electric guitar, percussion/drumset, accordion, piano/keyboard, viola, double bass, electronics

100 min

Premiere Concertante in London at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, and staged in Berlin at AckerStadtPalast, at the KlangHaus festival at Stadthaus Ulm / Funded by LAFT and the Ministry of Education and Culture Baden-Württemberg

London, 2017

Trailer

music theatre

Envelopes

Score available

2016

frei

New version inspired and performed by Natalia Pschenitschnikowa, Berlin 2016, Unerhörte Musik

Unerhörte Musik, Berlin, 2016

Watch the video

music theatre solo

Frost Pattern - Eisblume

Score available

2016

For electric guitar and bass flute, optionally with electronic sounds

Premiere: November 2019, Alte Feuerwache, Cologne /Trio NYT: Pavel Tseliapnou, Stephan Wolke, Emanuel Wittersheim

Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, November 2019

instrument duo

Three Early Fluxus Pieces

Score available

2015

free

2015

solo

various

Das Geräusch einer Hand denken

Score available

2015

(Scenic) text score for trombone, saxophone, accordion, violin

For the ensemble LUX:NM

ensemble / orchestra

Durcharbeiten

Score available

2015

Singer, speaker, performer and pianist, speaker, performer

free

Dieter Schnebel on his 85th birthday / for Anna Clementi and Ariane Jeßulat (2015)

Academy of the Arts, 2015, Berlin

music theatre

hiddensee 2

Score available

2013

baritone and violoncello

Commissioned by the district of Berlin-Steglitz-Zehlendorf / For Roman Trekel and Isa von Wedemeyer / Text: Ulrike Draesner

Berlin, 2013

voice with instruments

Totraum

Score available

2012

In memoriam Heinz Brink / Composition commission / Portrait concerto

Art Pavilion Heringsdorf, 2012

solo

asphodels 8-10

Score available

2012

Double bass, if possible electrically amplified

3 min

Randspiele Zepernick, 2012

solo

Sites (new version)

Score available

2012

For violoncello and horn

11 min

Studio recording, CD and DVD release 2012

Portrait concert Kunstpavillon, Heringsdorf, 2012

instrument duo

Spur

Score available

2002 / 2003

String trio (Vl, Vla, Vc)

15 min

Studioeinspielung 2015

Soundcloud

strings

Engel

Score available

2011

Scene for harp, accordion and play back

16 min

for Eva Zöllner und Eva Curth / Text: Lil Steen

Berlin, 2011

instrument duo

d. o. a. r.

Score available

2010 / 2013 / 2015

String quartet with speaking voice

Also as scenic version

strings

perpetual

Score available

2005

Concert harp, if possible electrically amplified

8 min

For Eva Curth / Studio recording and CD release 2013 by Eva Curth / First performance in Lübeck 2005 by Elena Lavrentev

Lübeck, 2005

solo

Schneefeld

Score available

2004

concert guitar, if possible electrically amplified

5 min

Commissioned by Caroline / premiered by Johannes Öllinger

Berlin, 2005

solo

BerlinTaumel

Score available

2002 / 2003

20 min

Electronic composition 10 parts, created at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague

The Hague 2002 / 2003

electronic with / without instruments

ver-blich

Score available

2001

Double bass, electronic sound processing in real time, playback tape (digital)

14 min

For Didier Meu (2001) / Inspired by “Èloge de la fadeur” by François Jullien

Festival Agora, IRCAM Paris, 2002

strings

solo

ver.blich (2001)

Score available

2001

For double bass and live electronics/fixed electronics

14 min

Inspired by “Èloge de la fadeur” by François Jullien, created at IRCAM Paris (Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique)

Festival Agora of IRCAM Paris, 2002

strings

solo

Postcard (2000)

Score available

2000

For large ensemble: 2 Fl, Ob, 2 Kl, Fag, Horn, Trp, Pos, Tuba, Sax, Harp, Piano, 2 Perc, 2 Vl, 2 Vlen, 2 Vc, Kb

13 min

Inspired by the Archangel Michael postcard by Peter Ablinger of the medieval tapestry from the cathedral treasury in Halberstadt (2000)

ensemble / orchestra

sum1999mer 1 - 8*

Score available

1999 / 2000

Flute, clarinet, trombone, (mezzo) soprano, bass voice, piano, guitar, violin

free

Text instructions for the construction of a score / Text: Goethe / Commissioned by Dr. Helga and Thomas Ulrich / Guitar for Silvia Ocougne

since 1999

solo

various

sum1999mer

Score available

1999

Violin

10 min

For Daniela Linkiewicz / Text instructions for building a score / Composition commission

Zionskirche, Berlin, 1999

solo

various

asphodels 1-7

Score available

1999

Trumpet, if possible electrically amplified

4 min

New Music at Lichthof, Berlin, 1999

solo

sum1999mer'

Score available

1999 / 2004

Amplified trombone

9 min

For Hilary Jeffery / Text instructions for the construction of a score for amplified trombone

Amsterdam, 2004

solo

various

sum1999mer 1 - 8*

Score available

1999

Text instructions for the construction of a score for flute, clarinet, trombone, (mezzo) soprano, bass voice (text: Goethe), piano, violin, guitar

free

For Silvia Ocougne / for Dr. Helga and Thomas Ulrich (1999 / 2000) / Commissioned by Dr. Helga and Thomas Ulrich

1999

solo

various

sum1999mer

Score available

1999

Violin

10 min

For Daniela Linkiewicz / Text instructions for building a score / Composition commission

Zionskirche, Berlin, 1999

solo

various

asphodels 1-7

Score available

1999

Trumpet, if possible electrically amplified

4 min

For Steve Altoft

New Music at Lichthof, Berlin, 1999

solo

Fresco (1999)

Score available

1999

Large orchestra

7 min

After the triptych Crocifissione by Perugino in the Chiesa Sancta Maria Magdalena dei Pazzi

ensemble / orchestra

exilata for the ensemble Accroche Note

Score available

1998

Soprano, clarinet (1998) ; also for soprano, flute (2013) and for soprano, bassoon

5 min

Commissioned by the Festival Lucero For Roman Trekel and Isa von Wedemeyer / Text: Emile M. Cioran

Berlin, 2013

voice with instruments

Spirkel

Score available

1998

Oboe, horn

13 min

Composition commission Theater music after Goethe

Sophiensäle, Berlin, 1998

instrument duo

pandory

Score available

1998

Marimba, piano

13 min

For Jutta Philippi and Claudia Sgarbi (1997)

Berlin, 1998

instrument duo

Sommerregen

Score available

1997

Mixed choir a-cappella

6 min

Text: Thomas Bernhard

1997

choir

the garden of flowers

Score available

1997

Mezzo-soprano

10 min

Text: Kabir / Commissioned by Zionskirche Berlin

Berlin, 1997

solo

ekloge

Score available

1996 / 1997

For mezzo-soprano, viola, guitar, percussion

10 min

University of the Arts, Berlin, 1997

ensemble / orchestra

Skira (1997)

Score available

1997

For flute, violoncello, accordion

14 min

Composition commissioned by the district of Berlin-Schöneberg, Christine Crecelius CD and DVD release 2012

Neue Musik im Lichthof, Berlin, 1997

ensemble / orchestra

Ashra

Score available

1997

For singing and speaking voice (1), speaking voice/performance (1), percussion (2)

89 min

Experimental music theater based on texts by Kabir in the English translation by Rabindranath Tagore / For Barbara Thun, Janis Somerville, Claudia Sgarbi and Martin Lonak / Composition commissioned by Dezentrale Kulturarbeit, Bezirksamt Berlin-Schöneberg

Ateliers Crellestraße, Berlin, 1997

music theatre

frango phragmón extended

Score available

1996 / 1997 / 2012

Accordion and electronic arrangement

10 min

CD- and DVD release 2012

2012

solo

frango phragmón

Score available

1996 / 1997

Accordion

5 min

By Gerhard Scherer (extended version 2012)

Berlin, 1997

solo

metaxy 1

Score available

1995

Solo for singing and speaking voice / performance (texts from dreams and experiences of the singer)

frei

For Anna Clementi

Berlin, 1996

music theatre solo

Piece for one person

Score available

1994

For one to an unspecified number of people, location unspecified

free

1994

solo

various

Floréal

Score available

1994

Flute

5 min

Randspiele Zepernick, 2012

solo

Words

Score available

1994

Flute, voice

For Lil Steen For speaking voice / Text: Andrej Tarkowskij

Portraitkonzert, Berlin, 1993

solo

Vahide

Score available

1994

Violoncello, voice

19 min

Solo for violoncello with voice

University of the Arts, Berlin, 1995

solo

Solo für Ebba Rohweder

Score available

1994

Flute

60 min

Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, 1994

solo

Sites

Score available

1994

Horn, violoncello

18 min

Composition commissioned by the artist group G-Lock, Passau (new version 2012, recording and release of the new version 2012)

Kulturmodell Passau, 1994

instrument duo

La Crescenza di 49

Score available

1994

For flute, clarinet, violoncello, double bass

frei

University of the Arts, Berlin, 1994

ensemble / orchestra

Score available

1994

For flute, clarinet, horn, trombone, violoncello, double bass

Experimental music theater for the ConGioccoEnsemble

Days of Women's Music, Weimar, 1994

music theatre

Envelopes

Score available

1993

Solo for singing and speaking voice / performance (texts: Antonin Artaud and from newspapers)

frei

Portrait concert Berlin, 1993

music theatre solo

amidst

Score available

1993

for voice, acting and prepared piano (without text)

free

Music theater / For Lil Steen and Barbara Thun

Portraitkonzert Berlin, 1993

music theatre

1au9tu9mn3

Score available

1993

four variable instruments

60 min

Experimental music theater for four variable instruments and dance / For Ebba Rohweder, Matthias Bauer, Simon Jacob Drees, Robert Hoare, Alex Brustmann / Commissioned by the Berlin Senate

Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, 1993

music theatre

Songs 1

Score available

1992

Voice(s), piano

30 min

voice with instruments

Sp19ri9ng one

Score available

1991

Piano

20 min

Studio recording in New York 1991 / Released on MC and premiered in Berlin 1992

Berlin, 1992

solo

The Swing

Score available

1991 / 1999

15 min

New York, 1991 / 1999; Passau 1996

Passau, 1996

strings

Erspähet

Score available

1990 / 1992

Alto voice, piano

5 min

voice with instruments

Nine Pieces

Score available

1990

For trumpet, trombone, saxophone, percussion, piano, synthesizer, 2 violins, viola, double bass

9 min

Film music Prize at the Oberhausen Festival

Berlin, 1990

ensemble / orchestra