folksong
for high voice and nine instruments
Duration ca. 15 minutes
First performance: Max Brand Ensemble, Agnes Heginger, cond. Cristoph Czech,
Essl Museum Klosterneuburg, October 2014
The Cure of Melancholy
After texts of Robert Burton
For string quartet, mezzo-soprano and speaker
Duration: ca. 40 minutes
First performance: Johann Leutgeb, Ingrid Haselberger, quartet of MDW Wien,
Norbert Math, Schloss Wolkersdorf,
video installation at Kunstforum Nestroyhof, Vienna, March 2021
The widow of seven rooms: a wake
Mezzo soprano and chamber ensemble (harp, flute, horn in F, double bass)
Duration: ca. 18 minutes
First performance: Loré Lixenberg, New Music Projects NÖ, cond. Yuki Morimoto,
Off-Theater Vienna, December 2015
Version for voice and two harps (or harp & piano), first performance, Loré Lixenberg,
Zsuzsanna Aba-Nagy, Carol Morgan, Alte Schmiede Vienna, February 2013
Die Erde liebt den Regen: Meditationen nach Mark Aurel
für Bariton, Sopran, Kithara, Aulos und Knochenflöten (od. cello, viola, flute and harp)
aus einer Versübertragung von Peter Stolte (Rostock 1705), Duration: ca. 12 minutes
First performance: Ensemble Nova di Roma, Johann Leutgeb, Haus der Regionen, Krems, May 2023
Neun-Kräuter-Spruch (Nine-Herb-Charm)
Medieval charms for speaker, treble, and percussion ensemble (four players).
Duration: ca. 15 minutes
First performance: Deutschlandsberg, Styrian Autumn Festival 1989,
version for two trebles, speaker and percussion ensemble:
Festival Ade-Vantegarde, Munich 1992
Scenes from Psyche
after Matthew Locke
for mezzo-soprano, tenor or baritone, harpsichord, cello and string trio
(two violins & viola)
Duration: ca. 24 minutes
First performance, version for voice and electronics: Loré Lixenberg, Norbert Math,
Tage des offenen Ateliers NÖ, Weidling, October 2023
Three songs, a lament and a prayer
For baritone, bassoon and piano
after poems of W. H. Auden
Duration: ca. 11 minutes
First performance: Rupert Bergmann, Ensemble Profundi, Kirchstetten, September 2019
The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerry
for mezzo-soprano, piano, and percussion
Duration: ca. 12 minutes
First performance (choral version): choir of Graz Music University cond. Franz Herzog, Ensemble of Musikschule Deutschlandsberg, Graz, Styrian Autumn Festival 1999
Publisher: INOEK Edition
Zehn Russische Kinderreime
For voice and variable ensemble
(Flt., clar., vla., bsn., vlc., hrp., pno.;/ harp trio/db., gtr., flt., pno.).
Duration: ca. 10 minutes
First performances: W.U.K. Vienna 1990, Sarah Barrat, Ensemble 9 Vienna,
cond. Yuki Morimoto.
Version for voice, double bass, guitar, flute and piano, Ensemble 5-Klang Leipzig, 1993
Version for voice, and harp trio, Evelyn Petros-Gumpel, Trio Melisande,
Gesellschaft für Musiktheater Vienna, 1993
Songs, interludes and a melodrama
after a theme by Orlando Gibbons
For voice, flute, clarinet in B flat and bassoon
Duration: ca. 14 minutes
First performance as stage music for Das Wintermärchen, director Andrea Mellis,
Festspielhaus St. Pölten 1997
Wind trio version: Nonesuch Players, Felicity Devonshire, St. Botolph’s Church, 2007
Gebetbüchlein (Little Book of Prayer)
after texts by August Walla,
for mezzo-soprano, speaker, flute, horn, double bass and harp.
Duration: ca. 12 minutes
First performance: Loré Lixenberg, Markus Kupferblum, Anna Verkholantseva,
Sylvie Lacroix a.o., Art /Brut Center Gugging, 2007
Songs for a man in a bag
for mezzo-soprano, chorus (SSM soli) and ensemble
(part one of reimspiele:rhyming games)
Duration: ca. 20 minutes
First performance: Sarah Barrat, Ensemble 9, Yuki Morimoto, W. U. K. Vienna 1990
Rhyming games for atleast six players
For speaker, piano, percussion and variable ensemble
Duration: ca. 7 minutes
Commissioned by COMA, London 1998
First performance:
Brian Rothfuss, Ensemble Neue Streicher, Klosterneuburg, November 2004
(for score and recording link see work of same name under ‘works – for chamber ensemble -strings)
Roundelay
for mezzo soprano and mixed ensemble (flute/piccolo; oboe, E flat clarinet, bassoon,
horn in F, violin, viola, cello, double bass)
Text from the Middle English Physiolgus, ca. 1250, and the Latin Physiologus Theobaldi.
The work was first performed in a version for piano and voice by Ingrid Haselberger and Barbara Rektenwald in Villa Wertheimstein, Vienna, on 26th September 2019