List of Works | Martin Loridan

Ensemble - String Quartet - Chamber - Voice + Instruments - Piano

Solo - Orchestra and Concerto - Film music and Arrangements

Works for Ensemble (5 instruments +)

Concerto pour Piano et Ensemble (2019)

Commissioned by Yumi Suehiro/Ensemble Mise-en

First performance: Mise-en Music Festival, New York, USA

Hólo(s) (2018) for Ensemble (9 players)

Commissioned by Ensemble Zone expérimentale Basel
First Performance: Hochschule für Musik Basel, Switzerland

Ātma(n) (2017/2018) for Ensemble (6 players)

Commissioned by Ensemble Norrbotten NEO
First Performance: Kalv Festival, Sweden

Stac'atoy (2017) for Toy piano ensemble (6 to 10 players)

Commissioned by Ensemble Staccatoy

First Performance: L'Espace 93, Paris, France

Sarments d'espace (2015) For large ensemble (14 players)

Selected Klangforum Wien call for works

First Performance: IMPULS Festival, Graz, Austria

Breath/rebreath (2014) for Ensemble (5 players)

Commissioned by Ensemble l’Instant Donné

First Performance: Auditorium du Conservatoire, Reims, France

Interlude pour Quintette à Cordes (2014) String quintet (2 vl, 2 vla, Cello)

Commissioned by Ensemble Nymphéas

First Performance: Théâtre de l'ile Saint Louis, Paris, France

Les lamentations du Phoenix (2011) For large ensemble (19 players)
Awarded Franz Josef Reinl Foundation Prize
First performance: Arcis Ensemble cond. Ulrich Nicolai, Gasteig Philharmonie, Munich

Brumes/espaces/temps… (2010 rev. 2012) for Ensemble (8 players)

Commissioned by Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players

First Performance: Stony Brook University, Staller Center, New York, USA

String Quartet

String Quartet n°3 (2016)

Commissioned by New Ensemble Xenia Turin

First Performance: EstOvest Festival, Turin, Italy

String Quartet n°2 – Whispering spaces II (2015-2016)

Finalist Sorodha Composition Competition

First Performance: Quatuor Tana, Opus 4, Antwerp, Belgium

Trois pièces pour quatuor à cordes (2013/2014)

Selected Arditti quartet Call for Scores

First Performance: Milton court concert hall, Barbican Centre, London

String Quartet n°1 – Introduction et allegro, hommage à Ravel (2009)

Commissioned by Korutet String Quartet

First Performance: Temple du Luxembourg, Paris

Chamber Music (2 - 4 instruments)

Nouvelle œuvre (2021) pour clarinette et flute

Commissioned by Ensemble Fractales – Saint-Gilles service de la Culture

First Performance (upcoming): Maison du Peuple, Brussels, Belgium

Sha'aph (2020) pour harpe et violoncelle

Commissioned by Duo Aznèm

First Performance (upcoming): Brussels, Belgium

Un eco di soffio (2019) for two cellos

Commissioned by Rohan De Saram and Claudio Pasceri

First Performance: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, UK

Spectres d'ombre (2016) for Piano trio

Awarded André Jolivet Composition Prize

First Performance: Festival les rencontres inouïes, Paris, France

Jusqu'à l'afflux... (2016) for clarinet and string trio

Commissioned by Glasgow New Music Expedition (GNME)

First Performance: Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow, UK

Whispering Spaces (2015) for Piano trio

Awarded Vareler Kompositionspreis

First Performance: BKA-Theater, Unerhörte Musik, Berlin

Trombone quartet n°1 "Chant d'une forêt ancienne" (2013)

Commissioned by Quatuor Trombonissimo

First Performance: Festival international de trombone de Roubaix, France

Chant de l'aube, l'obscurité (2012) for clarinet, viola and piano

Commissioned by Ensemble opus21Musikplus

First Performance: Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Reaktorhalle, Munich

Instrument(s) + Voice

L'oiseleur (2019) For Saxophone Quartet and Actress/Narrator

Commissioned by Olivier Cohen

First performance: Paris, Quatuor Axone

Souffle, Esquisse. Chant pour un équinoxe (after Saint-John Perse) (2015)

For Violin, Soprano, Saxophone and Percussions

Commissioned by Soundinitiative. First performance: Villa Douce, Reims, France

Chimères... Improvisation sur René Char (2014)

For Mezzo-soprano and Clarinet. Commissioned by Ensemble Accroche Note

First performance: Auditorium du Conservatoire, Reims, France

Croquis parisien (after Paul Verlaine) (2009) Soprano and String quartet

Commissioned by Culture espérance Roquette

First performance: Korutet, Alice Fagard (Soprano), Notre Dame de la Roquette, Paris

Solo Piano

Cinq Figures errantes (2017) for amplified piano

Commissioned by Yumi Suehiro

First performance: Mise-en_Place Bushwick, New York, USA

Resonating gestures (2015) for amplified piano

Commissioned by Ensemble Lucilin

First performance: Cathy Krier, Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg

Quatre fragments d'un rêve (2012) for solo Piano

Commissioned by Jennifer Lee

First performance: Auditorium du Château de Saint-Ouen, France

Solo Instrument

Tracer le souffle (2020) pour accordéon et électronique

Commissioned byLuca Piovesan

First performance: Polyphonic performance Spaces symposium, Brussels, Belgium

Souffles enlacés (2019) for Nay/Naylute (traditional Tunisian flute)

Commissioned by Institut Français of culture

First performance: HIchem Badrani, French Institute of Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia

Un eco di soffio II (2019) Clarinet (Bass/Sib) and Piano vibration/resonance

Commissioned by Benjamin Maneyrol

First performance: Art Exhibition Protocole de la Subversion, Brussels, Belgium

Circle(s) for amplified cello (2018)

Commissioned by Impuls Festival

First performance: Anna Grenzner, Impuls Festival Graz, Austria

Souffles de Pierres (2017) for solo Cello

Commissioned by Claudio Pasceri

First performance: AR[t]CEVIA International Art Festival, Sassoferrato, Italy

Two pieces for solo Cello (2013/2014)

Finalist Sorodha Composition Competition

First performance: Sigrid Vandenbogaerde, Opus 4, Antwerp, Belgium

Fugitive lines (2013) for solo Viola

Selected IMPULS Festival

First performance: IMPULS Festival, Graz, Austria

Trois pièces pour contrebasse (2013) for Double bass

Commissioned by Adrien Alix

First performance (I) : Temple du Luxembourg, Paris

Orchestra and Concerto

Concerto pour Piano et Ensemble (2019)

Commissioned by Yumi Suehiro/Ensemble Mise-en

First performance: Mise-en Music Festival, New York, USA

Les lamentations du Phoenix (2017) Version For Orchestra

First performance: Eurasian Symphony Orchestra

Central Concert Hall, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

Orientale (2011) Double Concerto for 2 saxophones and Wind Orchestra

Commissioned by Claude Delangle and Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine

First performance: Cathédrale Saint-Louis des Invalides, Paris, France

Fantasy on Christmas Carols (2011) for Saxophone and Orchestra
Commissioned by Claude Delangle
First performance: Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, Monterey, Mexico

Art Sculpture, concertante suite (2010) For Symphony orchestra

Winner Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Composition Competition

First performance: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, USA

Music for Films/theatre and Arrangements (selected)

Akt Sculpturen (2009) Film music

Music of the silent film "Akt-skulpturen. Studienfilm für bildende Künstler" (Oscar Mester, 1903)

Commissioned by Europa Film treasures/Arte Cinema.

2 contes de la rue Mouffetard, after P. Gripari (2008)

Musical Tale, For children (or women)'s choir and chamber ensemble

Commissioned by conservatoire de Bayonne. First Performance: Conservatoire of Bayonne, France

Le tombeau de Couperin, prélude (Ravel) Arr. for saxophone quartet

Commissioned by Claude Delangle

First Performance: Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM), Paris, France

Sunshine on Taxkorgan (Chinese traditional) Arr. for piano and saxophone

Commissioned by Claude Delangle

First Performance: Singapore, Claude Delangle

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