Concert Marches for Concert Band

Like Schwellisee, Schwarzsee and Urdensee, Hauensee is also the scene of an old legend, which can be read here in a wooden legend box. Once upon a time, a nobleman rode through the Urdental valley and...

At the foot of the Buchsiberge mountains, where the Stauffenbach stream from Wäckerschwend joins the Altachen, lies the cozy village of Thörigen. This is how the village is described on its own websit...

Badnerland, known for its sun-kissed wine-growing region, stretches from Lake Constance along the Rhine to Mannheim. But how is wine actually made? My book The Grapes of the Sun describes some of the...

The Hopping Pot was inspired by the story "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot" by J.K. Rowling. This is a wizard's tale from the Harry Potter universe, collected in the "Tales of Beedle the Bard". It tell...

On the morning of Lady's Day (August 15), three sisters went to the Liechtenstein mountains, to Gafadura above Planken, to pick berries. On the way there, they heard the church bells announcing the ho...

By the end of the 9th century, the Vikings had defeated all five English kingdoms. The entire country was in the hands of the invaders - except for a small area of marshland. This is where King Alfred...

This thoroughly optimistic piece begins with a powerful, cheerful rock, whose syncopated melody runs through all the registers. It leads into an elegant, light-footed jazz waltz whose theme also radia...

An Eternal Journey is a musical tribute to our planet Earth, its beauty, strength, fragility and balance. The music is inspired by the four elements of water, fire, air and earth and follows them thr...

In the summer of 2017, I was able to visit the beautiful Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. In addition to the incredible landscape with the Tien Shan Mountains and the lakes Yssikköl and Songköl (...

In the summer of 2017, I was able to visit the beautiful Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. In addition to the incredible landscape with the Tien Shan Mountains and the lakes Yssikköl and Songköl (...

On behalf of the Thurgau Cantonal Music Association. In Norse mythology, Svalin or Svöl (an. Svalin, Svol "the cool one") is a shield that the Aesir attached to the sun chariot of the goddess Sol. It...

On behalf of the Thurgau Cantonal Music Association. In Norse mythology, Svalin or Svöl (an. Svalin, Svol "the cool one") is a shield that the Aesir attached to the sun chariot of the goddess Sol. It...

OVELIKON was commissioned by the Musikverein Öflingen for their 125th anniversary. The work begins with a festive opening theme, appropriate for the anniversary. In the middle section, the song "Der a...

OVELIKON was commissioned by the Musikverein Öflingen for their 125th anniversary. The work begins with a festive opening theme, appropriate for the anniversary. In the middle section, the song "Der a...

Testpiece for the Youth-Division of the German National Brass Band Championships 2022 Commissioned by the German Brass Band Association I thought long and hard about whether I wanted to write a piece...

Testpiece for the Youth-Division of the German National Brass Band Championships 2022 Commissioned by the German Brass Band Association I thought long and hard about whether I wanted to write a piece...

Winner of the 5th International competition for band composition Angelo Inglese.

An Eternal Journey is a musical tribute to our planet Earth, its beauty, strength, fragility and balance. The music is inspired by the four elements of water, fire, air and earth and follows them thr...

Winner of the 5th International competition for band composition Angelo Inglese.

Through all weathers! was a composition commissioned by the Musikkapelle Wangen for its 225th anniversary. It is essentially divided into three parts. In the first, I describe the anniversary itself,...

The work was commissioned for the concert project "Eifelliebe" 2024. After a short prologue, four movements follow, each describing an element in connection with the conditions of the Volcanic Eifel 1...

The composition "Black Iris" is a fantasy and does not tell a story. In this sense, I did not originally want to record any extra- or intra-musical thoughts about the composition. The listeners shoul...

Cogwheels & Steam was inspired by the so-called "steampunk" movement. Steampunk describes an idea of the future from the perspective of the Victorian era, in which modern technologies are based on st...

Cogwheels & Steam was inspired by the so-called "steampunk" movement. Steampunk describes an idea of the future from the perspective of the Victorian era, in which modern technologies are based on st...

The composition "Black Iris" is a fantasy and does not tell a story. In this sense, I did not originally want to record any extra- or intra-musical thoughts about the composition. The listeners shoul...