Ontbreekwoorden (2023)
for speaker, fl (ad lib same person),mar, pno,db. (± 23')
Commissioned by Les nièces de Diderot
Dedicated to Saskia Goethals
(30 years)Out on a limb (2023)
for fl,b.cl,mar.solo,pno,vl,vla,vlc (11'-12')
Commissioned by Filip Rathé
Dedicated to Spectra Ensemble for its 30th birthday
Double takes (2015)
(sop, mezzo-sop, b,t,a,s,s recorder (1player), vcl, el. keyboard (with el.pno sound and a slow synth sound), marimba) (60ʹ)
Double takes 1 Drone 1
Double takes 2 A little stone
Double takes 3 Drone 2
Double takes 4 When broken pillars
Double takes 5 Drone 3
Double takes 6 A memory
Double takes 7 Drone 4
Double takes 8 We are tempted
Double takes 9 Drone 5
Double takes 10 A story repeated
Double takes 11 Drone 6
Double takes 12 Precious time
Double takes 13 Drone 7
Double takes 14 Looking at Double takes 15 Drone 8 Double takes 16 Africa!
Double takes 17 Drone 9
Double takes 18 Bone-dry wind Double takes 19 Drone 10 Double takes 20 Arenʼt we all.
Double takes 21 Drone 11
Double takes 22 My balcony
Double takes 23 Drone 11
Double takes 24 Even the humblest Double takes 25 Drone 13 Double takes 26 Opera!
Double takes 27 Drone 14
Double takes 28 Through open front doors
Double takes 29 Faces are maps
text by Frank Nuyts, on photographs by Ronny Lauwers
Dedicated to Claire Edwardes
Rats and rabbits (2005)
(fl – cl – vl – vla – vcl – perc) (12′)
Commissioned by Johan Huys for Concertgebouw Brugge Dedicated to Fred Brouwers.
Beck’s cool (2001)
(6 young perc) (3’)
Published by HRDSCR Editions
Dedicated to Randall Casaer
Choice beat (2001)
(6 young perc – electronics) (12’)
Chut!’ a melodrama (2015)
(prequel to ‘Paternel)
(1 sop 2 mezzo sop actress fl vibra db (15’) Libretto by Philippe Blasband vzw Hardscore productie & Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Dedicated to Veerle Simoens & Ben Haemhouts
D&C (2011)
(an arrangement of two fragments from Daphnis et Chloé de Ravel)
(fl (also pic) and 6 harps (5’30”)
Commissioned Voorwaarts Maart 2012
Sacha (2010)
For ensemble and slides (12’30)
(Text and drawings by Charles Berberian)
(clar&s/a/t sax-s/t/b-trb-pno-perc-el.bass&keynote slides)
Commissioned by Mark Delaere & Festival Vlaanderen Vlaams-Brabant vzw. Composed for Ensemble Klang (Netherlands) Dedicated to Leah Hausman.
Cold Calypso (2007)
(fl-clar/bclar-trp-trb-perc (1or2)-pno-db) (5ʹ)
Commissioned by Filip Rathé for Spectra Ensemble
Dedicated to Filip Rathé
Revised in 2019
…where the wind goes… (2007)
(for wind ensemble and tape (ad lib) (18ʹ)
(ob clar bclar bsn hrn trp trb)
Commissioned by Francis Pollet for I Solisti
Dedicated to Geurt Grosfeld
1’28” Noise for ensemble (1’28) (
fl-cl-pno-perc-vl-vla-vcl) commissioned by Spectra and Comav
Dedicated to Lucien Posman
On CD: Fingerprints, SABAM FMC 2010/02
Fivepenny beats & The seven beats itch (1993)
fl (also picc), bcl, vln, vla, vcl, pno, drums This piece is based on material from ‘B-Side Art’
Dedicated to Boudewijn Buckinx
Commissioned by Filip Rathé for Spectra Ensemble
Available on CD: 30 jaar Radio 3, Radio 3 label
Also on Contemporary chamber music, vox temporis label, CD 92 026
Sonivers I (1979)
(for sopr & ensemble: fl cl hrn clb mzsopr vib perc db ) (12ʹ) (text: Hugo Claus)
Tongval (2011)
A chamber opera
(lyrics (in Dutch) by Frank Nuyts)
(sop, mez sop, clar, vib, pno, hrp, vln, db) (25′)
Dedicated to Johan Dhollander A vzw HardScore production
Paternel a chamber opera (2013)
(libretto by Philippe Blasband)
(sop, 2 mezzo, actrice, fl, 3 hrps, DB) (45′)
Commissioned by VZW HardScore Dedicated to Wim De Temmerman
Middle East a chamber opera (2010)
(text:Philippe Blasband)
(sop, actor, fl, clar, 1perc, pno, vln, vle, vcl) (60′)
Commissioned by LOD
Dedicated to Hans Bruneel
Innocence in admiration (2008)
A concerto for piano and ensemble
(ob-bsn-hrn-perc-pno solo-vl-vla-vcl-db) (20ʹ)
Commissioned by Royal Conservatory Ghent and Emanon Ensemble
Dedicated to Daan Bauwens
Music to raise hell (1992)
(2 trp – 2 trb – 2 hrn – tub – 2 perc) (10’)
Commissioned by Wim Wabbes for Vooruit 10 jaar.
Dedicated to Bob Paulus & Odette Van Muysen