OPERA/ MUSIC THEATRE

Sparkie: Cage and Beyond – Revisiting „Pretty Talk for George Brecht“, 1978/ 2009

Concert performance with Alva Noto

Commissioned by MaerzMusik - Festival für aktuelle Musik Berlin

Love Counts, 2005

Libretto: Michael Hastings

Commissioned by Staatstheaters Karlsruhe

Man and Boy: DaDa, 2003

Libretto: Michael Hastings

Commissioned by Staatsheaters Karlsruhe

Facing Goya, 2000

Libretto: Victoria Hardie

World premiere at Auditorio de Galicia,

Santiago de Compostella

Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs, 1994

Texts by William Shakespeare

World premiere at Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Calvados

Letters, Riddles and Writs, 1991

Libretto: Jeremy Newsom and Pat Gavin

TV-Premiere in 1991, Great Britain

The Man Who Mistook His Wife

For A Hat, 1986

Libretto: Christopher Rawlence

World premiere at the ICA London

Adapted from the case study by Oliver Sacks

CONCERT

Concerto For Flute And Strings, 2010

The Musicologist Scores, 2009

Concert with citations from G.F. Handel for large ensemble, commissioned by BBC Proms, London

A New Pavan

For These Sad Distracted Times, 2009

Concert for cello and orchestra

Something Connected With Energy, 2008

Concert commissioned by Festival Della Scienza 2008 in Genua

50.000 Pairs Of Feet Can’t Be Wrong, 2007

Concert for large ensemble on the occasion of the opening of the Great North Run Marathon, commissioned by the Great North Run Cultural Programme

The Piano Concerto No.2, 2007

Concert for piano and large ensemble

The Violin Concerto No.2, 2007

Concert for piano and large ensemble

GDM, 2006

Marimba-concert commissioned by Tivoli Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and De Doelen

Melody Waves, 2005

Concert for Chinese orchestra, commissioned by Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Barbican Centre London, The Sage Gateshead and the British Council Singapore

Three Ways of Describing Rain:

Sawan, Rang, Dhyan, 2003

For the Indian singers Rajan and Sajan Misra and large ensemble

The Violin Concerto, 2003

For Gidon Kremer, commissioned by Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Compiling the Colours, 2003

With the Indian mandolin-master U. Shrinivas, for large ensemble and solo mandolin

Dance of the Engines, 2002

Concert for orchestra with pre-recorded engine sounds, commissioned by DaimlerChrysler AG,

conducted by Kent Nagano

Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin World premiere at the old DaimlerChrysler factory Berlin

Concerto for Saxophone Quartet

and Orchestra, 2001

Strong On Oaks,

Strong On The Causes Of Oaks, 1997

Concert suite commissioned by English Sinfonia

Double Concerto For Saxophone, Cello And Orchestra, 1997

Double concert for Saxophone and Cello, for John Harle and Julian Lloyd Webber

world premiere conducted by James Judd at the Royal Festival Hall, London

AET (After Extra Time), 1996

Concert for large ensemble, on the occasion of the European Champions 1996

commissoned by South Bank London

Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, 1995

For Elisabeth Chojnacka

Concerto for Trombone, 1995

Concert for orchestra and trombone, written for Christian Lindberg, commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse), 1993

Concert for orchestra, commissioned by the Festival de Lille on the occasion of the inauguration of the TGV Service Paris - Lille

The Piano Concerto, 1993

Commissioned by the Festival de Lille, for Kathryn Stott and the Orchestre National de Lille, version for 2 pianos for Katia and Marielle Labèque

For John Cage, 1992

For band/ brass ensemble, commissioned by London Brass

The Upside-Down Violin, 1992

For the Michael Nyman Band and Orquesta Andaluzí de Tetouan, commissioned by Expo'92, Seville

The Final Score, 1992

A football-homage for large ensemble

Where The Bee Dances, 1991

Concert for soprano saxophone, for John Harle, commissioned by Bournemouth Sinfonietta

DANCE

DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, 2006 und 2010

Choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon and the Royal Ballet, for Covent Garden London

Electra Perpetrator, 2008

Commissioned by ROES Dance Company

Exit, No Exit, 2005

Commissioned and choreographed by Shobana Jeyasingh for the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company

Flicker, 2004

Commissioned and choreographed by Shobana Jeyasingh for the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, world premiere at the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester

Strange Attractors, 1999

Choreographed by Stephen Petronio, Set Design by Anish Kapoor, world premiere at Yurba Buena Center fort the Arts, San Francisco

Miniatures, 1988

Solo piece for The Place Theatre, London Choreographed by Shobana Jeyasingh

Configurations, 1989

Piece for 3 - 4 dancers, choreographed by Shobana Jeyasingh, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

The Fall of Icarus, 1989

Choreographed by Frédéric Flammand for Plan K, for a video installation by Fabrizio Plessi, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels

Touch the Earth, 1987

For the Rosemary Butcher Dance Company, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

And Do They Do, 1986

Commissioned by Siobhan Davies for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, world premiere at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London

Childs Play (Portraits in Reflection), 1985

Choreographed by Lucinda Childs and the Lucinda Childs Dance Company

Basic Black, 1984

Choreography by Farrell Dyde for the Houston Ballet

The Princess of Milan, 1991

With texts by William Shakespeare, choreographed by Karine Saporta for the Avignon Festival

Yamamoto Perpetuo, 1993

Composition for a fashion show by the designer Johji Yamamoto, solo violin: Alexander Balanescu

DANCE

DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, 2006 und 2010

Choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon and the Royal Ballet, for Covent Garden London

Electra Perpetrator, 2008

Commissioned by ROES Dance Company

Exit, No Exit, 2005

Commissioned and choreographed by Shobana Jeyasingh for the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company

Flicker, 2004

Commissioned and choreographed by Shobana Jeyasingh for the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, world premiere at the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester

Strange Attractors, 1999

Choreographed by Stephen Petronio, Set Design by Anish Kapoor, world premiere at Yurba Buena Center fort the Arts, San Francisco

Miniatures, 1988

Solo piece for The Place Theatre, London Choreographed by Shobana Jeyasingh

Configurations, 1989

Piece for 3 - 4 dancers, choreographed by Shobana Jeyasingh, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

The Fall of Icarus, 1989

Choreographed by Frédéric Flammand for Plan K, for a video installation by Fabrizio Plessi, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels

Touch the Earth, 1987

For the Rosemary Butcher Dance Company, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

And Do They Do, 1986

Commissioned by Siobhan Davies for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, world premiere at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London

Childs Play (Portraits in Reflection), 1985

Choreographed by Lucinda Childs and the Lucinda Childs Dance Company

Basic Black, 1984

Choreography by Farrell Dyde for the Houston Ballet

The Princess of Milan, 1991

With texts by William Shakespeare, choreographed by Karine Saporta for the Avignon Festival

Yamamoto Perpetuo, 1993

Composition for a fashion show by the designer Johji Yamamoto, solo violin: Alexander Balanescu

ART

fff, 2010

Score for a video installation by Kutlug Ataman, Whitechapel Gallery London

Surrounded in Tears, 2004

Sound installation by Oswaldo Macià, Michael Nyman and Jasper Morrison, commissioned by the London Biennial and Tate Liverpool

The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi, 2002

String quartet for a text installation by Mary Kelly, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles

The Commissar Vanishes, 1999

Composition for a video installation by Chris Kondek, commissioned by the Barbican Centre London, Warwick Arts Centre

LITERATURE

Body Parts Songs, 2010

For tenor and piano, with texts by Ernst Jandl, Kurt Schwitters, Tadeusz Rózewicz, Anthony Howell, inter alia

To be premiered

I Sonetti Lussuriosi, 2007

Settings of the erotic sonnets by Pietro Aretino (16th century) for ensemble and soprano, commissioned by Venice Biennial

A Handshake in the dark, 2007

Settings of texts by the Iraqi poet Jamal Jumá, for choir and orchestra/ ensemble, commissioned by the BBC

I was a total virgin, 2006

Written by Hanif Kureishi and Michael Nyman, commissioned by London Sinfonietta for FuseLeeds06

A Child’s View of Colour, 2003

For children choir, based on a text by Walter Benjamin, commissioned by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City

Mosè, 2001

Settings of texts by Michelangelo Buonarotti, for choir and orchestra/ ensemble

Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras), 1998

12 songs based on texts by Fernando Pessoa, commissioned by 100 Days Festival Lisbon

Self Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and HerOmnipotence, 1992 and 1998

Based on S.N. Kramer’s translation of a Sumerian Hymn, for the counter tenor James Bowman and large Ensemble

Six Celan Songs, 1990 and 2009

Settings of 6 poems by Paul Celan for ensemble and contralto, written for Ute Lemper, performed again by Hilary Summers at the Jewish Museum Berlin