Én-kör V [Ich-Kreis V] (2025)
(for violin and piano)

Én-kör V

The series Én-kör (I-Circle) is a collection of short chamber music pieces that I compose for musicians who are also close to me personally.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja has now created three of my works and I have always found working with her extraordinarily inspiring. Her way of giving the smallest musical detail an unmistakably strong character of its own not only conveys the feeling that music can be haptic, downright three-dimensional, so that you can almost touch it, that every gesture has its own color, shape, temperature, smell and taste, but she also manages to make these qualities physically tangible for the audience.

Joonas Ahonen is also an interpreter of stature who does not make music with bland aestheticism, but with a pleasantly raw power and the sound of honest music-making and with a constantly forward-pushing energy of movement reminiscent of the young Beethoven

When the music of a living composer begins to live and breathe under the hands of interpreters with such clarity and intensity, it is not only an existential moment of confirmation and justification for him, but a sudden, ecstatic opening up of completely different possibilities, a potentiated thrust that releases tremendous creative energy and compels him to continue composing.

Like most of my works, this one also has a very strong connection to visuality and physicality. I construct musical gestures by hearing, seeing and touching at the same time, and it helps me a lot to imagine the sensual and theatrical qualities of the two performers: I hear their instrumental sound, see their movements and feel the power of their touch and bowing dynamics.

The music moves from the piano keys to the violin strings, from there tapping and rubbing back into the piano, then it returns to the violin, plucking, shaking with the bow wood, wiping, screaming and whistling... sometimes in dialog, sometimes as a soloist or together - but always through the sound in all perspectives, consistencies, alloys and shades.