A little glimpse into the electronics for my new ensemble version of sand like gold-leaf in smithereens (ii) for violin, ensemble, and electronics. I’ve been reshaping the piece, and it’s taking on a new form — so I wanted to share a short excerpt.

All violin sounds are recorded with Carolin Widmann, and I performed all the other acoustic instruments used in the electronics.

Huge thanks to Dejana Seculik and Sarah Saviet for their invaluable help with the violin part, to Elena Schwarz and Carolin Widmann for their support, and to Klangforum Wien for making it possible to create this new version. Premiere coming soon in 2026.

Here you can read a full report of the events leading to the cancellation of the premiere of my violin concerto: the timeline, the decisions made, the communications exchanged, and their consequences.

From September 2025, I will be teaching composition at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. I am grateful, honored, and excited to join this institution — and give back to a place that gave me so much as a student.

Excited to share my latest piece: glass and stone.
This is a very personal work, dedicated to the loss of my mother. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who helped bring it to life — especially Nicolas Cadena, whose vision and care brought the video to a new depth.

It is a great joy and honour to share that I will be joining the Festival d’Automne à Paris as artistic director for music programming, succeeding Joséphine Markovits.

While I was studying in Paris, more than 10 years ago, I would go to the concerts at the Festival d’Automne and discover music I never heard before. I had my first piece for the Ensemble Intercontemporain premiered in 2014 at this festival, and 10 years later, Joséphine asked me to be the portrait composer for her last edition in 2024.

Joséphine and this festival have been a constant presence in my musical life and helped me to shape the composer and curator I am today. Being able to do for many more artists what she and the Festival d’Automne have done for me is one of the biggest joys of my life. I know these are big shoes to fill, and I will try to do my very best.

The purple fuchsia bled upon the ground, for piano and orchestra.
Written for and performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the WDR Orchestra, conducted by Elena Schwarz.

You can now listen to my latest piece echo from afar (ii) on soundcloud, or watch the video below.
Huge thanks to hand werk, who played magnificently and were a joy to work with.