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


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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


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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)


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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 Scorevideo

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)


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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


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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

Commissioned by Ling’Ring Lights


Henry Purcell in memoriam


Premiere : spring 2021

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 Éditionsvideo

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


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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 Éditionsvideo

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


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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?

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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 BabelScoresvideo

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


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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 BabelScoresaudio

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

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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

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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 Éditionsvideo

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


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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


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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

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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


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Vocal

earth was in spring (2018, 18′)

for mezzo-soprano, baroque violin, archilute and electronics

Commissioned by Label Suisse Festival 2018


Premiere : 14.09.2018 – Label Suisse Festival 2018, Lausanne (CH) – Silke Gäng (mezzo-soprano), Leila Schayegh (baroque violin), Daniele Caminiti (theorbo), Alessandro Ratoci (sound engineer), Kevin Juillerat (electronics)


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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)


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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