Mike Svoboda: trombone soloist with orchestra

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trombone soloist with orchestra or ensemble

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Mike Svoboda Quartet: 14 Attempts to love Richard Wagner

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with music by Richard Wagner and Mike Svoboda and texts by Thomas Mann, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Camille Saint-Saëns, Erik Satie, and Richard Wagner

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Mike Svoboda Trio: The Phonometrograph Erik Satie

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music from Erik Satie and Mike Svoboda, texts: Erik Satie with Anne-May Krüger (voice and barrel organ), Stefan Hussong (accordion and toy piano), Mike Svoboda (trombone and narration)

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Tierkreis

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two realizations of Stockhausen's beautiful "12 Melodies of the Zodiac" for five musicians

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Mike Svoboda: Studies on "Adorno (sex, drugs and New Music)"

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for a vocalist, 8 musicians, and video. Mike Svoboda, music - Dietrich Hahne, video. Featuring Phil Minton, vocals.

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Duo Hussong/Svoboda

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three duo programs with the accordion virtuoso Stefan Hussong -
works by Girolamo Frescobaldi and John Cage, Piazzolla, Albeniz, Berio, Hölszky, etc.

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Mike Svoboda: power and poetry - solo performance

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new music "classics" from Xenakis, Berio, Scelsi, Cage, and Feldman with interludes by Svoboda using the voices of the composers

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Mike Svoboda: Clara, Robert und Johannes

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fantasy on a romantic triangle (2004) for trombone (also narration) and 18 musicians
with texts by Manfred Weiß, Jean Paul, and Heiner Müller, etc.

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Mike Svoboda Trio: French Kitsch

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yes! they're still there, those truly beautiful melodies - with Stefan Hussong (accordion) and Wolfgang Fernow (bass). Trios by Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin, Piazzolla, etc. ...

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Trio Scelsi: Suono Rotondo - Kiedaisch/Scodanibbio/Svoboda

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works from Giacinto Scelsi and trio improvisations
with Michael Kiedaisch - percussion, Stefano Scodanibbio - double bass, and Mike Svoboda - trombone

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Dr. Mike S. Voboda - Alphorn Therapy

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music comedy
with Mike Svoboda (music) Manfred Weiss (text and stage direction)

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Mike Svoboda's Alphorn Special - family concert

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a tongue-in-ear hommage to the complex simplicity in our simply complex world ...with alphorn, didgeridoo, conch shell, trombone, and the ordinary garden hose...

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Der unglaubliche Spotz

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not a fairy tale, an Oper for everyone aged 6 and up
for 4 singers and 3 musicians
Mike Svoboda (music) Manfred Weiß (libretto)

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Duo Kiedaisch/Svoboda: DrumBoneSongs

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Michael Kiedaisch - percussion, metal objects, accordion, etc., and composition
Mike Svoboda - trombone, didgeridoo, conch shell, alphorn, etc., and composition

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Mike Svoboda Quartet: My God Mozart!

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music with texts about the adoration of a genius. Music: Mike Svoboda and W.A. Mozart, text: Ahmels, Goethe, Stendhal, etc.

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Reminisence on George Crumbs "Makrokosmos"

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George Crumb's "Makrokosmos" for solo piano (1972) complimented with four commissioned works for ensemble and Svoboda's own "transition/intuition 1-5" (2007)

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Keiko Harada Remix - special guest zignorii++

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compositions from the japanesse composer Keiko Harada
and remixes with the electro-duo zignorii++

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Mike Svoboda: Katharsis - solo performance for sacral spaces

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a solo program with trombone and live-electronics inspired by texts from Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) and Martin Luther King

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