all compositions

In the list below you will find all my compositions.

In my understanding a ‘composition’ is a piece that requires some sort of a score.
There is a certain amount of organization, counterpoint and polyphonic texture involved.
Music I write for smaller ensembles, like my jazz quartet or even quintet, I call ‘pieces’ or ‘tunes’. This music usually allows for more improvisation and spontaneity.
My ‘tunes’ of course are very dear to me, too.

So, the distinction is not one of hierarchy, much less one of quality.
It is rather a distinction in the amount of work involved.
Writing a score for full orchestra is necessarily a different type of work than coming up with a groove and a couple of chords to make, say, a pop song.
The source and the intention, however, are the same: it’s creativity and the wish to convey something personal, something that is important to me.

Additional to the list of compositions below there must be about a hundred or so other pieces I wrote, most of which have been recorded with my bands, like the Platypus Ensemble or Infinita.
Many of these pieces, too, may contain tricky structures or some polyphony.
The boundary is not clear cut: I deliberately try to have composed sections sound like they’re improvised, and I’m trying to have my improvisations sound like they were composed.

Anyway, the band pieces are not included in the list below, but you can find them listed under the respective CD they were published on. (Once I got around putting them there.)