Hello, welcome to my website and BLOG! For the last several decades I have been focusing on contemporary music practices and the poetics of interpretation. Lately I have been exploring electronic composition with fixed media, live processing and, very recently, machine learning algorithms. From 2023 – 2024 I was external artist consultant in AI-based creative and performance practices for the research group “CREATIE” at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. Currently I am flutist of the Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik, coach for our youth ensemble Studio Musikfabrik and the European Contemporary Music Workshop (Warsaw), guest faculty for the Lucerne Festival Academy, and guest professor for the academic years 2022 – 2025 at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga.
Podcast interview with Flute Space – here I talk about music education, working with composers, what got me into electronics, creative AI and machine learning. There are lots of other interesting guests, too, so check out all their interviews.
FluCoMa Podcast by Jacob Hart on YouTube:
What’s on in 2025: (not all events are listed, visit Musikfabrik’s website for more.)
- February 6, Eclat Festival Stuttgart, premiere of Sarah Nemtsov’s Yesod for piccolo and percussion. (repeat Feb. 24, Cologne, Studio Musikfabrik)
- April 5, Bonn Schauspielhaus, Björk’s Vespertine, (repeat performances, follow link)
- May 9, Cologne Acht Brücken Festival, Kaija Saariaho Terrestre with Ensemble DEHIO
- May 17, Cologne Acht Brüken Festival, George Aperghis, premeire of Selfie in the Dark for ensemble
- August 16 – 19 Lucerne Festival Academy, guest faculty
- September 22, Cologne, Studio Musikfabrik, celebration concert with Pamela Z, Marco Blaauw and friends.