Music archive entry

This is my second Wind Quintet. The title Oil spots on the water doesn't have much with ecological issues, but rather with those abstract, colourful, poly-semantic shapes of small oil spots on asphalt, especially when it rains.

It was selected in a shortlist of 31 among 270 compositions for the project Neue Kammermusik fur Musikschulen (New chamber music for music schools) by the Verband deutscher Musikschulen (Association of German Schools of Music) in Bonn, Germany. In October 2004 this piece, together with two other pieces by the same composer, received first prize at the Bremer Komponistenwettweberb organised by the Council of the Music (Landsmusikrat) in Bremen, Germany.

It was first performed on 10th July 2004 at the Castle Sonderhausen in Germany by the Wind Quintet of the Music School 'Carl Schroeder' of Sonderhausen: Eva-Maria Albrecht (flute), Malte Schneegas (oboe), Antje Eckstein (clarinet) Julia Wallis (bassoon), Manuela Hirsch (horn), Stephan Uhl (conductor); in the cycle Neue Musik in alten Residenzen (New Music in old residencies) of the Council of the Music Thuringia.