"A sound party that sounds like Beethoven on speed later on," said the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" after the premiere of Alex Paxton's "How to eat your sexuality" in February 2025. Never overly intellectual, but rather completely direct, wild and colorful, the three-part work by the successful Brit comes across, whose music the "New York Times" not without reason described as "the most cheerful sound in a long time." 

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New Vocal Soloists / Klangforum Wien / Vimbayi Kaziboni

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Chaya Czernowin’s Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings “leads us to an undiscovered connection between outer and inner nature — deeply moving, familiar, yet at the same time alien and synesthetic,” says the composer. Brad Lubman conducts this performance featuring soloists from the award-winning Neue Vocalsolisten and with Students from the Juilliard Orchestra joining the New York Philharmonic.

Sound On: Chaya Czernowin

David Geffen Hall

Nothing is ever safe from him. Frequently, Alex Paxton has been referred to as “system crasher”. A multi-stylist and improvising jazz trombonist, he knows of no discrepancy between entertainment, highly complex work-structures, and breathtaking virtuosity. Elements taken from music for video games, classical chamber music and free jazz are melded in his musical smelting furnace to create a blazing and highly energetic musical language. A full evening’s worth of a truly staggering journey.

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Wiener Konzerthaus

Alex Paxton is often described as “system crasher” – nothing is ever safe from him. A multi-stylist and improvising jazz trombonist, he knows of no discrepancy between entertainment, highly complex work-structures, and breathtaking virtuosity. Elements taken from music for video games, classical chamber music and free jazz are melded in his musical smelting furnace to create a blazing and highly energetic musical language. His new work How to Eat your Sexuality guarantees a full evening’s worth of a truly staggering journey. World premiere at the opening concert of the ECLAT Festival Stuttgart.

Neue Vocalsolisten

Mar 28, 2026

New Vocal Soloists / Klangforum Wien / Vimbayi Kaziboni

Oct 29, 2025

Sound On: Chaya Czernowin

Neue Vocalsolisten