Sofus Preisel
Composer - Performer - Pianist
Suite for Imagined sounds and spaces (2025)
flute, piccolo / English horn / Clarinet / Contrabassoon / Horn / Prepared snare drum / misc. percussion / violin / viola / cello / projected text
Written for Ensemble Esbjerg but was de-programmed. Premiered by K!art Ensemble conducted by Rei Munakata at Xenon – HUSET.
Sometimes something unexpected happens (2025)
one or two performers
Premiered at Panorama Festival performed by Sofus Preisel and Sebastian Brix. This piece is a little vignette toying with the expectations in a classical concert. The piece' three movements has to be performed inbetween other pieces.
Whistling returns us to a pleasure of being a body in the world, full of vitality and animation. p. 180 (2025)
8 voices
Piece created and performed at a workshop with Marcella Lucatelli at Musikhuset Århus.
Han udløste menneskejagt /He started a manhunt (2025)
EQ-Piano / 2 x Bb Saxophon / Bb Clarinet / electric guitar / Misc. percussion
Premiered at Panorama Festival performed by Sofus Preisel and Mario Romero Madrid (saxophone), Lucía Martín Carmona (saxophone), Isolda Juncosa (clarinet), William Damgaard (guitar) and Lise Hougaard Laursen (percussion).
The EQ-Piano is a homemade virtual instrument that lets you control an equalizer with a MIDI-keyboard.
HYL /howl or screech (2024)
mezzo-soprano / “cow call”-singer / flute / percussion / dancer / misc. electronics / amplified “Tree sound sculpture”
Evening lenght theater show performed in the woods in Marselisborg Forrest in Århus. Co-written with Nadja Marie Schmedes Enevoldsen. Commisioned by Århus Unge Tonekunstnere. Won the Åbne Scene residency at Godsbanen.
.. unthink me. (2023)
3 performers / amplified “Tree sound sculpture”
Premiered by Neko3 at Klang Festival. Was later performed by Sofus Preisel, Anne Sophie Andersen and Matthew Grouse at Århus Festuge.
Drei kleine Stumpfstücke für drei Stümpfen (2022)
three performers / homebuild instruments
Premiered by Neko3 at Klang Festival.
Zehn Kleine Stumpfstücke für Ein Stumpf (2022)
tone performer / homebuild instruments
ZOOM SOUNDS (2022)
3 guitarists / three computers w. Zoom video conference / misc. electronics
Collection of two pieces; a guitar trio and a sound sculpture. Premiered by CRAS Ensemble at Klang Festival. Later performed at the artist collective Amok.
Score /Guitar Trio: Documentation - Klang FestivalDocumentation - Amok /Sound sculpture: Documentation
Fanfare for Ungdommens Håb for Fremtiden /Fanfare for The Youth's Hope for the Future (2022)
2 trumpets in C / 2 trombones
Commisioned by the transnordic conference "Storbyens Hjerte og Smerte" /The metropolis' Heart and Pain to be performed at their opening ceremony at Aarhus Teater. This years theme was "Ungdommens Håb for Fremtiden" /The Youth's Hope for the Future.
Performed by Holger Sandegaard Johansen (trompet), Simon Gjedsted (trompet), Marius Thuesen (Trombone) and Lucas Johansen (Trombone).
Two Etudes in Representation in Classical Music(2021/2025)
N/A
Text etude for classical musicians to reflect on their artistic practice in regard to representation. To be performed in the rehearsal room w.o. an audience. Reworked for Panorama Festival, where all performing musicians received a copy.
TOSOMHED // ENSOMHED /togetherness // loneliness (2020)
string orcehstra
Commissioned by MGK-Ø. Cancelled due to the corona pandemic.
ARSHIA & SOFUS (2020)
acoustic and electric piano / saxophone Bb/ guitar / video projection / misc. electronics
Performance and collaboration with ARSHIA. Cancelled due to the corona pandemic.