David Philip Hefti

The song cycle 'E las culurs dals tuns' ('And the colours of sounds') was composed in 2017 to a commission by the Summer Music Days festival in Hitzacker. The cycle in twelve parts is a setting of Rom...

Resonances 2 (Piano Piece No. 3) were composed in 2016 for the pianist Susanne Kessel and her project '250 piano pieces for Beethoven', which will commemorate Beethoven's 250th birthday in the year 20...

David Philip Hefti‘s fourth piano piece, 'Ritmico', is comprised of three fragmentary, individual movements. The focus of this brief work is on the rhythmic components of the music, leaving almost all...

The piano piece describes twilight, the night, dreams and sleeplessness with a gentle basic character. This calm is abruptly broken in the second part of the piece, tumbling out of a dream into a feve...

This work was composed shortly after the composer conducted Jürg Dähler and the Musikkollegium Winterthur in the world première of his Viola Concerto Cantabile in January 2021. Whole passages from Can...

The short movements élan, resonance, vehemence and harmony can be performed as a suite or as individual movements. They were premiered as part of a matinée for Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin.

Die '12 Fantasien' für Flöte solo entstanden 2015 im Auftrag der Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte und sind dem Flötisten Philipp Jundt gewidmet. Die Uraufführung durch den Widmungsträger fand im Rahmen der It...

The 'Cadenza and interludes' for the Sonata in a minor for solo flute (Wq 132) by C. P. E. Bach were written to a commission from the flautist Philipp Jundt, who gave the first performance of the work...

The Cadenzas and interludes were written in 2021 to a commission from the flautist Philipp Jundt. The brief cadenzas were mostly composed for a single breath, in the spirit of Quantz. The interludes r...

The Cadenzas for the Concertos for flute and orchestra by W. A. Mozart were written in 2022 and are dedicated to the flautist Philipp Jundt and the harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet.

Starry rain – Mosaik for flute solo was written in spring 2024 for the flutist Philipp Jundt and was written as an echo of the flute concerto Vier Momente.

Gallicinium, Music for the fourth nocturnal vigil for wind quintet, is the last of four compositions whose starting point is the Roman vigils of the church. The harmonies of this work alternate betwee...

Dedicationes is a collection of dedication miniatures that the composer wrote for friends on the occasion of special events. Over the years, these dedications have grown into a rich and colourful musi...

'à la recherche...', for clarinet, viola and piano, gropes its way forward slowly, in a manner almost fragile, searching for a binding form for itself. Thus ever greater contrasts emerge between clear...

Whole passages from the Double Concerto Sechs Klanginseln have been wrested from their context, restructured and formed into a round dance. The result is a colourful mosaic that places the original mo...

'Mormorando', music for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon, refers to individual movements of Elliott Carter's 'Eight etudes and a fantasy'. These two works were composed for the same ensemble, 70 year...