Composition
Solo
MUES (2021-22, 11’)
for augmented harp
Commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
IRCAM RIM: João Svidzinski
for Valeria Kafelnikov
Premiere : 10.06.2022 – Manifeste 2022 – Amphithéâtre, Cité de la Musique, Paris (F) – Valeria Kafelnikov, harp
DÄMMERUNG (fünf Sonaten ohne Interlude) (2020, 50’)
for prepared piano and electronics
Commissioned by Cédric Pescia within the framework of an artistic residence in the atelier of Canton Vaud in Berlin
John Cage in memoriam
Premiere : 20.05.2022 – Théâtre 2.21, Lausanne (CH) – Cédric Pescia, piano
released by NEOS Music
Diurno (2018, 5’)
for percussion
Commissioned by Church Ligerz for the concert season « Musik aus der Stille – La musique du silence »
Premiere : 25.08.2018, 18h15 – Kirche Ligerz (CH) – Jens Ruland, percussion
Pas de deux (2016, 7’)
for guitar and electronics
Piece written as part of Cursus 2015-2016 in IRCAM
impossible and whimsical duet –
games of power,
of imitation, complementarity,
of contamination,
of domination
contradictory music –
explosive and intimate,
resonant and muffled,
bright and rough
captured, infiltrated, escaped;
fleeing sounds.
Premiere : 15.04.2016 – Centre Pompidou, Paris (F) – Rémy Reber (guitar)
Étude pour les trilles et la précision des nuances (2015, 3’)
for trombone
Commissioned by Mike Svoboda for « The playing techniques of the trombone » published by Bärenreiter
Premiere : 23.05.2016 – Gare du Nord, Basel (CH) – Mike Svoboda (trombone)
Monk 1 : Canto (2012/14, 5’)
for flute
Commissioned by Szu-yu Chen
This piece is a free instrumental transcription (or amplification) of a poem by Ian Monk. It keeps its structure and its mood, and some of its syllables and consonants are amplified by the flute.
Premiere : 05.06.2014 – Hochschule für Musik Basel (CH), Grosser Saal – Szu-yu Chen (flûte)
Published by BabelScores
Gawa (2011, 5’)
for udu and 4 razors
Commissioned by Julien Mégroz
Premiere : 12.09.2011 – Concours Nicati, Hochschule der Künste Bern (CH) – Julien Mégroz (percussion)
…par ce tiède soir, tout bas ? (2009, 5’)
for tenor saxophone
Freely inspired by a poem by Paul Verlaine.
Premiere : 30.04.2009 – Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève (CH), Place Neuve – Kevin Juillerat (saxophone)
published by Babel Score – video
A traves del confuso esplandor… (2008/2012, 5’)
for horn
Freely inspired by a poem by Pablo Neruda.
Published by BabelScores
Chamber
Signal-Antienne (2023, 9’)
for trombone and baritone saxophone
Commissioned by Duo Signal
Premiere : 08.2023 – Musik Hochschule Luzern (CH)
Quatre tombeaux-volières (2023, 8’)
for soprano saxophone and percussion
Commissioned by Valentine Michaud & Gabriel Michaud
Premiere : 09.08.2023 – Chapelle de Prigny, Les Moutiers en Retz (F)
released by Mirare
Trio (2023, 13’)
for flute, clarinet and piano
Commissioned by Concours de Genève for the semi-final of the 2023 Flute Competition
The exploration of the qualities and sound possibilities of each of the three instruments, as well as their complementarity, mark the entire writing of this trio. Added to this are highly contrasting rhythmic energies – sometimes evoking certain forms of jazz or rock – which range from polyrhythmic to homorhythmic, from smooth to striated, from frenetic to suspended.
Premiere : 1 & 2.11.2023 – Concours de Genève– Geneva (CH)
syr och syr (2022-23, 13’)
for guitar, harp and organ
Commissioned by Ensemble Contrechamps
« syr och syr » is a free interpretation of a haiku by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer.
A music in the form of a sound exegesis, shaped by its light, its colours and its contrasts,
animated by its figures and evocations.
Premiere : 13.05.2023 – Cathédrale St-Pierre, Geneva (CH) – Ensemble Contrechamps
déchiré d’un espace rouge-gorge (2021-22, 9’)
for viola, baritone saxophone and electronics
Commissioned by Duo Klexs
Premiere : 21.04.2022 – Neubad, Luzern (CH) – Duo Klexs
L’ÊTRE ON (mini-oratorio en duo) (2020-21, 32’)
for a pianist and a drummer with electronics
Commissioned by HYPER DUO
on texts by Antonin Artaud, François Rabelais, Isidore Ducasse & Mathilde Wesendonck
Premiere : 02.06.2021 – Gare du Nord, Basel (CH) – HYPER DUO
Masonites (2019-20, 13′)
for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion
Commissioned by ensembleTaG
Joan Miró in memoriam
Premiere : 06.05.2021 – Winterthur (CH) – ensembleTaG
Tombeau (…four past a ground…) (2019, 9′)
for recorder, viola da gamba, triple harp and harpsichord
Pas de quatre (2019, 14′)
for tenor saxophone, microtonal accordion, electric guitar and live-electronics
Commissioned by Soyuz21
in collaboration with ICST – Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, ZHdK
Premiere : 07.06.2019 – La Voirie, Biel (CH) – soyuz21
Cinque Notturni (2017, 9′)
for electric guitar, piano and live-electronics
Commissioned by Duo Santorsa-Saccone
games of colors, shapes and spaces;
intermingled sounds – merging;
delicate and frenetic,
nocturnal.
Premiere : 13.12.2017 – Theater Pavillon, Luzern (CH) – Duo Santorsa-Saccone
Published by Note en Bulle Éditions – video
récitatif et aria (2017, 11′)
for violin, electric guitar, percussion, bass clarinet, contrabass and fixed sounds
Commissioned by Ensemble Vortex for Composers’ Next 2017
récitatif –
voix parlée, triturée, saturée,
accompagnée, plagiée, contrefaite –
commentaires, paraphrases, divagations, outrance .
aria –
imitation, surenchère;
variation;
monodique euphorie tonitruante ou buccale
Première : 25.11.2017 – Fonderie Kugler, Genève (CH) – Ensemble Vortex
L’Étang du Patriarche (2017, 8′)
for piano and alto saxophone
Commissioned by ORPHEUS – Swiss Chamber Music Competition as part of a springboard project by Pro Helvetia, Fondation Suisse pour la Culture, for Akmi Duo
This piece is first at all a tribute to Mikhaïl Bulgakov and his masterwork « The Master and Margarita » whose exuberant madness and sublime romanticism inspired the whole composition.
But it is also a homage to Classical and Romantic tradition of the Sonata for piano accompanied by an other instrument such as Brahms’s piano and clarinet or Beethoven’s piano and cello sonatas.
Premiere : 29.09.2017 – Adelboden Chamber Music Festival (CH) – Akmi Duo
Published by Note en Bulle Éditions – video
Plaisirs peu solitaires (2015, 8′)
7 miniatures for four musicians on one instrument
Commissioned by Too hot to hoot? for the project Soft Swinging…
i. Nature morte for glockenspiel
ii. Besogneux souffleur for alto saxophone
iii. Petit extra for accordion
iv. À blanc for baritone saxophone
v. Douces pédales for harp
vi. Saxfest for sopranino saxophone
vii. Boules for bass tom
Premiere : 23.10.2015 – H95, Raum für Kultur, Basel (CH) – Too hot to hoot? chamber performing quartet
Jeux (hi-lo-hi-mute) (2015, 10′)
for accordion and percussion
Commissioned by Too hot to hoot? for the project Metalliseos
The idea of game in music has always fascinated me. You can find it in throughout the ages – from Machaut and Mozart to Debussy and Kurtag – and especially in baroque music with its countless contrapuntal inventions, its motivic development or its ornamentation… It is full of expression, bliss, spirit and game!
In my Jeux, I try to recover those characteristics in my own language. Instead of playing with tonality, harmony and counterpoint, I use sound, space, shapes and colors to create a mosaic where the two instruments often form one single entity, sometimes are more independent but always complement.
Premiere : 29.08.2015 – Filter4, Basel (CH) – Too hot to hoot?
Study on phonetics (2014, 5’)
for trombone, cello, piano and percussion
Commissioned by Eunoia Quintett
[u/ɔ/ı/ə]
[əı.]
[ɔn]
Intermezzo
[nu:]
[u:j]
Coda – [ju:‘nɔı.ə]
Premiere : 06.05.2014 – Gare du Nord, Basel (CH) – Eunoia Quintett
Published by BabelScores – video
Jeux (2014, 7’)
for baritone saxophone (or bass clarinet) and cello
Commissioned by Green Fairy’s duo (Patrick Stadler and Wiktor Kociuban)
The idea of game in music has always fascinated me. You can find it in throughout the ages – from Machaut and Mozart to Debussy and Kurtag – and especially in baroque music with its countless contrapuntal inventions, its motivic development or its ornamentation… It is full of expression, bliss, spirit and game!
In my Jeux, I try to recover those characteristics in my own language. Instead of playing with tonality, harmony and counterpoint, I use sound, space, shapes and colors to create a mosaic where the two instruments often form one single entity, sometimes are more independent but always complement.
Premiere : 23.06.2014 – Marburg (D) – Green Fairy’s duo
Published by BabelScores
Gawa II : Luz (2013, 7’)
for two percussionists and light
Commissioned by reConvert project (Victor Barcelo and Roberto Maqueda Dominguez)
The serie Gawa is a research work, which revolves around two main concepts : on the hand, specialization as a main musical parameter and means of expression, and on the other, development of a kind of primitive mixed music.
Premiere : 31.08.2013 – Instituto Bernasconi, Buenos Aires (ARG)– reConvert project
Ginkgo (…feuilles à travers les cloches…) (2011, 9’)
for two pianos and two percussions
Commissioned by Ensemble Batida
I like to envision my pieces like living creatures made of sounds, shapes and colours; organic and constantly growing. Nature, (either animal, vegetal or mineral) the grandness and the fragility of its cycles and its equilibrium are for me a constant source of inspiration.
The images of the serene Gingko Biloba and of its two-lobe leaves remain in the entire piece, in its form or its instrumentation for example. The two pianos symbolize both leaves’ symmetry and trunk of a sound entity with metallic or wooded changing tints, like foliage over time.
The liquid and shining impressionism of the Images and the refined and sometimes heartbreaking idiom of the last Sonates by Claude Debussy can also be found in this tribute to a great sound alchemist.
Premiere : 10.09.2013 – Concours Nicati, Hochschule der Künste Bern (CH) – Ensemble Batida
Published by BabelScores
…sweet love, away. (2011, 7’)
for 6 instruments
for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, percussion, viola (or violin) and cello
…sweet love, away. is freely based on the 20th poem of James Joyce’s Chamber Music. I tried here to set to music its freshness and its erotism.
Premiere : 08.09.2012 – Festival Rümlingen (CH) – Ensemble Zone Expérimentale, cond. Marcus Weiss
Arabesque IV : Germination (2009, 8’)
for two bassoons or two baritone saxophones
Premiere : 16.02.2013 – Impuls 2013, Graz (AUT) – Stephanie Schoiswohl and Florian Bauer (saxophones)
Published by BabelScores – audio
Ensemble
STREAMS (2023, 20’)
for violin, viola, cello, contrabass, accordion and 2 pianos
Commissioned by Association des Amis de la Musique
for the NEC (Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain)
Selected as ‘recommended work’ at the 70th International Rostrum of Composers in 2024
musique fluide et foisonnante, heurtée et sauvage ;
cours aux virages abruptes, au débit capricieux ;
flux polychrome (les affluents et les couleurs se rencontrent et se fondent) et stéréophonique (les sons circulent d’un bord à l’autre) ;
processus en creux et en crêtes, plein ou brisé.
Premiere : 15.03.2024 – Temple Allemand, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH) – NEC
audio
WAVES (2021, 7’)
for orchestra
Commissioned by the Basel Sinfonietta
waves.
waves on the sea,
wind waves (crests and troughs),
(jeux de vagues)
tidal waves;
sine waves,
sound waves,
(waveforms)
electromagnetic
gravitational
shock
waves;
migratory waves,
(waving flags)
pulse waves,
(heart beat)
waves of panic;
(epidemic waves)
Premiere : 16.01.2022 – Stadtcasino, Basel (CH) – Basel Sinfonietta, cond. Baldur Brönnimann
audio
le vent d’orages lointains (2018, 9’)
for piano and strings
Commissioned by Camerata Ataremac
amplified, prolonged
shockwaves
frenetic constantly
sounds interfere,
rebel,
unify
resonant, radiant, gravitational
densities.
Premiere : 28 mars 2018 – Concerts de Levant, Lausanne – Gilles Grimaître (piano), Camerata Ataremac
Published by Note en Bulle Éditions – video
Tombeau (…kammer…) (2016-17, 10’)
fir 13 instruments
1.1.2.0 1.0.1.0 Pno Perc 1.1.1.1.1
Commissionned by Ensemble Phoenix as part of Trabant 2017 project.
György Ligeti in memoriam
music of colors,
of excess –
polyphonic or monolithic;
a few notes from chamber concert
as thread –
subliminal,
shadow and genome;
rooms, spaces, compartment
resonant;
tomb.
Premiere : 19.11.2017 – Gare du Nord, Basel (CH) – Ensemble Phoenix
La chute (2016, 20’)
for 8 singers, sampler and jazz orchestra
8 singers (SSAATTBB) 1.0.1.0 3Sax 1.1.1.1 Pno Drums Perc 1.1.1.1.1 EBass
Commissioned by Orchestre du Grand Eustache as part of the project projet « Les sons de Babel ».
LA CHUTE (Ouverture)
CHORUS 1
RÉCITATIF 1 : Allemand
CHORUS 2
RÉCITATIF 2 : Slovène
CHORUS 3
RÉCITATIF 3 : Espagnol
RÉCITATIFS 4-5 : Finnois-Italien
CHORUS 4
INTERMEZZO
CHORUS 5
RÉCITATIF 6 : Mandarin
CHORUS 6
VIVRE (Finale)
Premiere : 19.11.2016 – Théâtre de l’Octogone, Pully (CH) – L’Orchestre du Grand Eustache, cond. Philippe Krüttli
Monk 2 : Plouk (2014, 12’)
for viola, tenor saxophone and ensemble
for viola and tenor saxophone soli, alto flute, baritone saxophone, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion and string quintet
Monk 2: Plouk was selected to be premiere as part of the concert « oeuvres pour soliste et ensemble (Proxima Centauri / Linéa) » in SaxOpen – XVII World Saxophone Congress and Festival in July 2015 in Strasbourg (F).
Le projet a reçu le généreux soutien de la Fondation Nicati-de Luze.
Monk 2: Plouk is a musical reread of the collection of poems Plouk Town. This rough and grating social tragedy with its exhilarating formal rigor was written in french by the british author Ian Monk. The piece stages two feverish and inseparable soloists in a desperate fight against a brutal and oppressive instrumental ensemble. It query the room of an individual in a society which is only the shadow of its old ideals.
Premiere : 11 juillet 2015 – SaxOpen , Strasbourg (F) – Noémie Bialobroda (viola), Kevin Juillerat (saxophone), ensembles Linéa and Proxima Centauri
Tombeau (…sinfonia…) (2014, 5’)
for chamber orchestra
2.2.2.2 2.2.1.0 Timp Strings
Commissioned by Orchestre de Chambre de Genève
Premiere : 06.05.2014 – Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, Genève (CH) – L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, cond. Arie van Beek
Vocal
earth was in spring (2018, 18′)
for mezzo-soprano, baroque violin, archilute and electronics
Les Nuits de Bilitis (2015-2016, 7′)
for voice quartet and electric guitar
Commissioned by SoloVoices
Lyrics from « Chansons de Bilitis » by Pierre Louÿs
Premiere : 07.04.2016 – Gare du Nord, Basel (CH) – SoloVoices (Svea Schildknecht (S), Francisca Näf (MS), Jean‐Jacques Knutti (T), Jean‐Christophe Groffe (B)) et Maurizio Grandinetti (Gui)
Les Chants de l’Eubage (2014-2015, 21′)
for soprano and piano quartet
Commissioned by Association Eubage for the project Science-Fiction Lieder.
Karlheinz Stockhausen in memoriam
Lyrics from « l’Eubage » by Blaise Cendrars
Premiere : 29.08.2015 – Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains (CH) – Céline Wasmer (S), Hilde Skomedal (Cello), Noémie Bialobroda (Viola), Lucas Buclin (Piano) et François Girard-Garcia (Violin)
Four Songs for Emily (2013/16-17, 10′)
for soprano and 6 instruments, or 13 strings
for soprano, 2 flutes, clarinet, alto saxophone, hackbrett and accordion
or soprano and 13 strings (4.3.3.2.1)
Commissioned by Ensemble Zone Expérimentale and Hochschule für Musik Basel
This short cycle for soprano and thirteen strings sets to music four poems by the American author Emily Dickinson. They deal with life, death and nature, which are recurrent themes in her poetry.
Through the four songs one can see a progress from antiphony to heterophony via polyphony. Firstly separated from the instruments, the voice intermingles more and more with them; they finally seem to merge into one single instrument. Additionally, the text stretches increasingly from a quasi-syllabic to a highly ornamented use. Thus the less understandable it becomes, the deeper one penetrates into the sound and its contemplation.
Premiere : 25.04.2017 – Music Biennale Zagreb (HR) – Ivana Lazar (soprano), Edo Mičić (cond.), Zagreb Soloists
Tombeau (…colombes et rameaux…) (2013, 8’)
for soprano, trombone, cello, piano and vibraphone
Commissioned by Eunoia Quintett
The shadow of a prelude
An obsession for a few notes from an opera
The faint light of a music only, in memory of two great masters of french baroque music and their so refined and moving expressivity
Premiere : 30.04.2013 – Dampfzentrale, Bern (CH) – Eunoia Quintett
audio – Published by BabelScores
Stage music
GRAALS – mystère lyrique en trois actes (2023/24, 100′)
for 3 actors, 4 singers, baroque ensemble and electronics
Commissoned by Compagnie OPERATIC
Music – Kevin Juillerat, Henry Purcell
Libretto – Luc Birraux
Premiere : 17.08.2024 – Théâtre du Jorat, Mézières (CH) – cie Operatic
Atomic Whisper (2021, variable duration)
sound installation for two loudspeakers
Commissioned by ensemble Too hot to hoot? for the performative installation « Interwalls »
Premiere : 09.04.2021 – KASKO, Basel (CH)
La Disparition – photo-roman d’arpès Georges Perec (2016-2019, 75’)
photo-roman for actor, prepared piano, percussion, electronics and projection
Commissioned by Compagnie OPERATIC
Based on Georges Perec’s novel « La Disparition »
Direction: Luc Birraux
Composition and electronics: Kevin Juillerat
Photography: Margaux Opinel
Actor: Michaël Comte
Prepared piano: Cédric Pescia
Percussion: Julien Mégroz
Sound engineer: Robert Torche
Premiere : 09.05.2020 – Société de Musique Contemporaine Lausanne, Salle Paderewski, Lausanne (CH)
Incidental music for Jean Racine’s play « Phèdre » (2019, ca. 30′)
for electronics
Commissioned by Collectif Bis
Premiere : 2.10.2019 – Théâtre de l’Élysée, Lyon (F)
Educational
L’artiste (2020, 5’)
for children choir and 6 instruments
Commissioned by Les Petits Chanteurs de Lausanne
for two-part children choir, flute, clarinet, bassoon, contrabass, piano and percussion
on a poem by Maurice Carême
Branco (2012, 8’)
for piano
Three educational pieces for piano
Level: 5 to 7 years of practice
Three etudes, the first about articulation, the second about playing inside the piano, and the third about resonances; they can be played together or separately.
Finalist of 2. Mauricio Kagel Kompositionwettbewerb 2013
Premiere : 12.02.2013 – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien (AUT)
Published by BabelScores
Arche (2011, 18’)
cycle for saxophone
Cycle de 7 pièces pédagogiques pour 1 à 3 saxophones et piano.
Différents niveaux : 2 à 10 ans d’instrument environ.
Plus que de simples pièces pédagogiques, j’ai voulu avec le cycle Arche offrir aux jeunes saxophonistes un répertoire de pièces contemporaines concertantes abouties et exigeantes. Chacune d’elles est centrée sur un ou plusieurs modes de jeu qui sont, à mon avis, d’inestimables outils pédagogiques pouvant être abordés dès les premières années d’instrument et stimulant la curiosité, l’oreille et l’habileté des élèves.
Le cycle comprend deux duos et deux trios de saxophones, deux duos avec piano et une pièce solo afin de varier les approches et les pratiques de travail. Chaque pièce est accompagnée d’éléments d’analyse visant à engendrer une réflexion sur sa structure et son écriture ainsi qu’à faciliter son accès et sa compréhension. Des suggestions d’écoute présentent, quant à elles, quelques compositeurs marquants du siècle dernier et d’aujourd’hui, donnant ainsi quelques repères dans le foisonnant paysage de la musique dite contemporaine.
Un enregistrement des pièces est également disponible, donnant un autre moyen d’approche et une référence d’interprétation (enregistrement réalisé à la Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, saxophones : Kevin Juillerat, Jean-Valdo Galland et Valentin Conus, piano : Irene Puccia, prise de son et mixage : Alessandro Ratoci).
Premiere : 16.02.2011 – HEMU Lausanne (CH), Utopia 1 – Élèves de différentes écoles de musique lausannoises
Les pièces n°2 Miroitement pour saxophone alto/soprano et piano et n°4 Et l’horizon frissonne pour saxophone alto/ténor solo sont éditée chez Alphonse Leduc, Paris, collection Vent de Sax ;
les cinq autres sont éditées chez Note en Bulle Éditions
Quatre chants sylvestres (2011, 10’)
for young orchestra
Four educational and poetic pieces for chamber orchestra
Level: 4 to 5 years of practice
Published by Note en Bulle Éditions