Overview:
Concert Works
Works for the Stage and Screen
Releases
Concert Works
For Voices and Live Electronics
Fundamental Ornamental
by Evelyn Saylor & Nina Guo
For two voices & live electronics (2024)
Premiere: November 19, 2024, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor & Nina Guo
Supported by inm – initiative neue musik e.V.
photo by Ricardo Eizirik
Pastoral
For solo voice & live electronics (2024)
Premiere: November 19, 2024, KM28, Berlin, Germany
photo by Ricardo Eizirik
A to B
For two voices & live electronics (2024)
Premiere: June 4, 2024, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor & Dina Maccabee
Further performance at Seanaps Festival, Sept. 22, 2024, Westflügel, Leipzig, Germany
Photo by Ines Koenitz & Corinna Mehl
Astral Circuits
For two voices & live electronics (2023)
Premiere: March 30, 2023, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor & Nina Guo
Further performance at Seanaps Festival, Sept. 22, 2024, Westflügel, Leipzig, Germany
Photo by David Walker
Shattered, Shimmering
For solo voice & live electronics (2023)
Premiere: March 30, 2023, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor
Photo by Alex Piasante
No Such Virtue (‘There Is No Rose’ Permutation)
For solo voice & live electronics (2023)
Premiere: March 30, 2023, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor
Further performance at Seanaps Festival, Sept. 22, 2024, Westflügel, Leipzig, Germany
Photo by Colin Self
Unearthly Bioacoustics
by Evelyn Saylor & Rebecca Lane
For voices, flute, organ pipes & quadraphonic live electronics (2022)
Premiere: Sat, Dec. 3, 2022, Petersburg Art Space (PAS), Berlin, Germany
Supported by INM Berlin
Photos by Joey Gavin
Graphic design by Moritz Grünke
For A Cappella Voices
Synchronized Swimming
by Evelyn Saylor & Dina Maccabee
For two a cappella voices (2025)
Premiere: April 4, 2025, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor & Dina Maccabee
Supported by Musikfonds e.V.
photo by Johanna Ackva
Scherzo
for three a cappella voices (2024)
Text by Dora Greenwell
Premiere: Nov. 19, 2024, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, Dina Maccabee, Nina Guo
Photo by Ricardo Eizirik
For After
for four a cappella voices (2024)
Premiere: Sept. 22, 2024, Seanaps Festival, Westflügel, Leipzig, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, Dina Maccabee, Nina Guo, & Marco Wessnigk
Photo by Ines Koenitz & Corinna Mehl
Back & Forth
for four a cappella voices (2024)
Premiere: June 4, 2024, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, Dina Maccabee, Johanna Ackva, & Marco Wessnigk
Photo by Chris Peck
The Autumn Day Its Course Has Run
for three a cappella voices (2023)
text by Charlotte Brontë
Premiere: March 30, 2023, KM28, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, Nina Guo, Marco Wessnigk
Further performance at Seanaps Festival, Sept. 22, 2024, Westflügel, Leipzig, Germany
Photo by Ines Koenitz & Corinna Mehl
Fantas Variation for Voices
by Evelyn Saylor
a recomposition of “Fantas” by Caterina Barbieri
arrangement for four a cappella voices (2021)
Performances: April 17, 2023, Milan Design Week, Milan, IT
April 10, 2022, Rewire Festival, Amare Concertzaal, The Hague, NL
May 28, 2022, Wiener Festwochen, dasWerk, Vienna, AT
March 24, 2022, Re-Textured Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Performers: Evelyn Saylor, Michelle Cheung, Lydia Saylor, Sara Persico, Marie Gailey
Also released on the compilation album Fantas Variations by Editions Mego (see Releases)
Photos by Nat Urazmetova & Nian Canard
Change Patterns No. 2
by Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane
for two a cappella voices (2018)
November 7, 2018, Beate Uwe, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane, voice
Excerpts from the score for “Change Patterns No. 2”
Change Patterns No. 1
by Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane
for two a cappella voices (2018)
June 24, 2018, Kunstpunkt, Berlin, Germany, curated by A Trans – Rebecca Lane and Evelyn Saylor, voice
Photo by Isolde Nagel,
installation artwork by Mareike Lee & Tomoyuki Ueno
For Voices and Instrumental Accompaniment
Upswell
by Evelyn Saylor and Dina Maccabee
for two voices, viola, and shruti box (2025)
Premiere: April 4, 2025, KM28, Berlin, Germany
Supported by Musikfonds e.V.
For Ensemble
Encompass
Hommage to Mahler’s 1st Symphony
for small orchestra (2020)
November 29, 2020 via Livestream – Broadcast from Gretchen, Berlin, Germany
Commissioned and performed by the STEGREIF.orchester
Photo by Lucas Kemper
Cyclus Cygnus
by Evelyn Saylor and Cherilyn MacNeil
Live performance with 12 electric swans and 5 musicians (2020)
Performance: August 29, 2020, Strandbad Rahmer See, Berlin, Germany
August 27, 2021, Strandbad Plötzensee, Berlin, Germany
Installation: September 11-20, 2020, Festival of Lights, Piano-See, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
with Evelyn Saylor & Cherilyn MacNeil (composition, vocals, electronics), Denis Bivour & Florian Giefer (concept & swans), Henrike Wassermeyer (flute), Alexander Glücksmann (clarinet), Sophia Warczak (harp)
Photo by Florian Giefer
Reckless Poem
Composition for soprano, violin, and piano (2014)
May 3, 2014, Trinity Lutheran Church, New York City – Amanda Gregory, soprano, and the Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, violin, Ishmael Wallace, piano)
Commissioned by the Orfeo Duo
Character Pieces
Composition for cello and piano (2013)
Premiere: April 30, May 8, & May 18, 2013, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA – Audrey Dunne, cello, Evelyn Saylor, piano
January 8, 2017, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City – Laura Melnicoff, cello, Evelyn Saylor, piano
Exuberance
Composition for bass-baritone and piano (2013)
text by Hillary Gravendyk
April 30 & May 7, 2013, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA – Adrien Redford, bass-baritone, Hannah Hudson, piano
Song for Woodwinds and Strings
Composition for flute, clarinet, violin, and two cellos (2012)
December 13, 2012, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA – Kimi Beck, flute, Shannon Burns, clarinet, Albert Chang, violin, Audrey Dunne, cello, Allison Sherris, cello
This Land Is Your Land
Composition for Balinese Gamelan Ensemble (2010)
Scenes of Paris: Gray and Brilliant
Composition for cello, piano, and French horn (2009)
December 14, 2009, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA – Leah Loversky, cello, Laura Collins, horn, Tracy Zhao, piano
Prayer for My Heart
Anthem for SA chorus and organ (2006)
text by Pheobe Griswold
Premiere: October 22, 2006, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City – the Choristers of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Mollie Nichols, conductor, Steven Lawson, organ
2007, Harvard Memorial Church – Harvard University Choir, Harry Huff, organist and
2008, Trinity Church Wall Street – massed children’s choirs for telecast
Site-Specific / Installation
Gone to Ground
Site-specific playable composition for sonic biking (2016)
July 16, 2016, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
Tech Tonic Plates
Composition for Electronics (2012)
September 27, 2012, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Made possible by the Summer Experience in the Arts Award from the Mellon Foundation’s Elemental Arts Initiative
Installed as audiovisual installation by Mari Matsutoya & Evelyn Saylor, June 27-29, 2014, in Gallery Dzialdov, Berlin, Germany
Photos by Holger Mann and Mari Matsutoya
For Fixed Media Electronics
Vel Piling Grimtra (‘Traveling Pilgrim’ Permutation)
fixed media piece (2020)
Premiere: March 30, 2023, KM28, Berlin, Germany
Photo by Evelyn Saylor
Prelude and Impromptu
4-channel fixed media piece for Fairlight and field recordings (2016)
Premiere: May 29, 2016, Crescendo Festival 2016, Foyer, Konzertsaal der UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
July 17, 2016, Studiosaal, Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany
Photo by Kaffe Matthews
Seams and Threads
Context-based composition on Sacred Harp singing for fixed media (2015/16)
February 12, 2016, Wave field synthesis Hall, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Pulses Round
Fixed media piece for AKS Synthesizer and Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
December 6, 2015, Studiosaal, Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany – performed on the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester
Multiple performances in live solo sets with audiovisual performance
New Prospect
Fixed media piece for Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
December 6, 2015, Studiosaal, Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany – performed on the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester
Perspectives
Fixed media piece for Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
September 25, 2015, KONTAKTE’15 – Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany – performed on the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester
Photos by Evelyn Saylor
Observations: Glass on Strings
Four-channel fixed media and amplified piano (2014/15)
Premiere: February 8, 2015, Studiosaal, Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany
Adaptation for Wave field synthesis: March 14, 2015, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Excerpted as dance score: June 28, 2019, Solo Dance Festival, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey
Photo by Bruce Saylor
Diabolical Cathedral
8-channel Composition for Electronics (2011)
May 10, 2011, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Klang Fabrik
Composition for Electronics (2010)
December 13, 2010, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Works for the Stage and Screen
Frommer Tanz
Music for theater piece (2025)
Premiere: Sept. 24, 2025, Thalia Theater, Gaußstr., Hamburg, Germany
Further performances in the 2025/2026 Season
after the novel by Klaus Mann, directed by Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Photos by Isabel Machado Rios
Caligula
Music for theater piece (2025)
Premiere: Jan. 23, 2025, Münchner Volkstheater, Bühne 1, Munich, Germany
Further performances: Jan. 29, Feb. 6, 16, & 17, March 3, 2025
by Albert Camus, directed by Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Photos by Arno Declair
Liebes Arschloch
Music for theater piece (2024)
Premiere: September 13, 2024, Theater Münster, Kleines Haus, Münster, Germany
Further performances: Sept. 18, 27, Oct. 4, 13, 18, 27, Nov. 9, 24, Dec. 8, 27, 2024
by Virginie Despentes, adapted for the stage by Victoria Weich, directed by Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Photos by Sandra Then
Jupiter brüllt – Der lange Weg zum Glücksplanet
Music for theater piece (2024)
Premiere: Feb. 16, Staatstheater Mainz, U17, Mainz, Germany
Further performances: Feb. 24, Mar. 6, Apr. 1, 6, 2024
By Annika Henrich, directed by Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Photos by Andreas Etter
Das große Heft
Music for theater piece (2023)
Premiere: Oct. 1, 2023, Münchner Volkstheater, Bühne 2, Munich, Germany
Further performances: Oct. 2, 6, 24, 25 / Nov. 12, 14 / Dec. 18, 19, 2023 / Jan. 26, 27 / Feb. 6, 7 / Mar. 24, 2024
with Ran Chai Bar-zvi (director). An adaptation of the novels by Ágota Kristóf
Photos by Gabriela Neeb
Beyond Love
Music for theater piece (2023)
Premiere: February 8-11, 2023, HAU3, Berlin, Germany
Further performances: Nov. 28- Dec. 1, 2024, HAU3, Berlin, Germany
Feb. 7 & 8, 2025, Black Box Teater, Oslo, Norway
with Dragana Bulut (concept, choreography, performance), Caroline Neill Alexander (performance), Andrew Hardwidge (dramaturgy), Fabian Bleisch (light), Beatrice Zanesco (assistance)
Photos by Dragana Bulut & Dieter Hartwig
Das wirkliche Leben
Music for theater play
for electronics and children’s choir (2022)
Premiere: May 20, 2022, Staatstheater Hannover, Ballhof 1, Hannover, Germany
Further performances: May 28, June 6, June 28, Oct. 8, Oct. 22, Oct. 29, Nov. 13, Dec. 16, 2022.
A production of the Staatstheater Hannover, directed by Ran Chai Bar-zvi
by Adeline Dieudonné
in the translation by Sina de Malafosse
in an adaptation by Frederik Tidén and Ran Chai Bar-zvi
Photos by Isabel Machado Rios
Grandmothers
Electronic music for dance performance (2021)
December 18, 2021, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany
With Nagao Akemi, Johanna Ackva (dance), Evelyn Saylor (music), Susana Alonso (light), Björn Pätz, Joshua Wicke (dramaturgy)
Photos by Anna Agliardi
Clouds on Clear Sky
Electronic music for dance performance (2021)
Premiere: October 7-10, 2021, Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany
October 6-9, 2022, Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany
With Johanna Ackva (choreography and artistic direction), Akemi Nagao, Jan Burkhardt, Sophie Kuhlmann, emeka ene, and Regina Baumgart (dance and co-choreography), Evelyn Saylor (live music), Max Hilsamer (videos and projections), and Bettina Mileta (costumes and design of the space)
Photos by Aïsha Mia Lethen Bird
Allongé
Dance performance with live music (2020)
October 31, November 1-3, 2020, Studio 14, Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany
February 25-28, 2021, online stream by Tanzfabrik Berlin
with Julian Weber (choreography & dance), Shade Théret, György Jellinek (dance), Evelyn Saylor (music composition & performance), Annegret Schalke (light)
Photos by Julian Weber and Dieter Hartwig
Forgot to Remember – Remember to Forget
Performance for dance and loudspeaker orchestra (2019)
Premiere: September 28, 2019, KONTAKTE ’19 – Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Film adaptation for livestream and installation – June 27, 2020, Soundance Festival Berlin, DOCK 11, Berlin, Germany
with Ruben Reniers (choreography & dance) and the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester
Commissioned by the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Akademie der Künste for the Festival KONTAKTE ’19 in collaboration with Klangzeitort
Photos by Carlos Collado
Take It Like a Man
Electronic and choral music for theater performance (2019)
A production by The Agency with music by Evelyn Saylor and Nile Koetting
Premiere: October 17 & 18, 2019, Ergo Ipsum, Düsseldorf, Germany – with soloists from the Münchner Knabenchor
Photos by Dirk Rose
Oskar Remixed
Electronic score for short film (2018), film by the Bauhaus Agenten, Philine Sollmann, Ruben Reniers, & Marco Baass
Premiere: January 16-24, 2019, 100 Jahre Bauhaus Exhibition, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), Berlin, Germany
September 11-15, 2019, Festival Bühne TOTAL, Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Germany
Commissioned by Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Stills from the film “Oskar Remixed”
Synchromy No. 2
Electronic score for short film (2018), film by Mary Ellen Bute & Theodore Nemeth (1936)
December 6, 2018, Heroines of Sound Festival, HAU 2, Berlin, Germany
Commissioned by the Heroines of Sound Festival
Stills from the film “Synchromy No. 2”
I Am Because You Were
Electronic score for short film (2018), film by Pierre-Yves Dalka (director, fashion design) and Duduzile Voigts (dance)
Premiere: October 19, 2018, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Online screening: November 6-7, 2020, FILMZ Festival Mainz
Stills from the film “I Am Because You Were”
Displacement
Modern dance and theater performance (2018)
Premiere: June 7, 8, & 9, 2018, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
May 16, 17, & 18 2019, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
with Ruben Reniers (choreography & dance), Ana Dordevic | Nora Vladiguerova (dance), Barbara Steinitz (stage design), Nicole Kohlmann (dramaturgy)
photos by Carlos Collado
Flatland
Live electronic score for modern dance (2018)
March 30, 2018, Musikbrauerei, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, live music, Ruben Reniers, choreographer, Ana Dordevic, dance
SimulacrumX (Part II)
Modern dance and theater performance (2016)
Premiere: September 28, 29, & 30, 2016, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, music and performance, Ruben Reniers, choreographer, Rebecca Jefferson, dance, Paula Dobrowski, text and performance
June 23, 24, & 25, 2017, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, music and performance, Ruben Reniers, choreographer, Rebecca Jefferson, dance, Sara Tamburini, performance
Photos by Daniel Nartschick
schrittweise
Electronic score for modern dance by Evelyn Saylor, Paul Lansky and Ruben Reniers (2015/16)
February 4, 6, & 7, 2016, DOCK 11, Berlin, Germany – Ruben Reniers, choreographer, Barbara Steinitz, puppetry and performance, Annapaola Leso, dance
Photos by Philine Sollmann
Sounds For A While
Music theater performance (2014/2015)
June 25, 27-30, and July 2, 2015, Tischlerei, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, Vera Buhß, Laura Aragoneses, Weiju Shen, Giacomo Gianetta, Ilya Selikhov, Matteo Spanò, Lucie Vítková, composers and performers, Hans Peter Kuhn, Director
Photos by Thomas Aurin
SimulacrumX
Electronic score for modern dance (2014)
with Ruben Reniers, choreography and dance
Premiere: September 26, 2014, Solo/Duo Festival, Barnes Crossing, Cologne, Germany
January 17, 2015, Solo/Duo Festival, MOHA, Budapest, Hungary
June 9, 2015, Gdansk Dance Festival, Club Zak, Gdansk, Poland
July 3-5, 2015, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
September 16, 2015, Teatro Erba, Torino, Italy
February 4, 6, & 7, 2016, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
January 27, 2018, Solocoreografico Festival, Gallus Theater, Frankfurt, Germany
Photos by Virginia Chiodi Latini
Stirrings
Electronic score for modern dance (2012)
May 3, 2012, Pendleton Dance Studio, Pomona College – Ava Untermeyer, choreographer
Sister Pact
Modern dance with original electronic dance score (2006)
June 2007, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City – Evelyn Saylor, composer, choreography & dance, Elizabeth Saylor, Meredith Saylor, Lydia Saylor, dance
Releases
Fantas Variation for Voices
by Evelyn Saylor
a recomposition of “Fantas” by Caterina Barbieri
for voices (2021)
Release April 2, 2021 on the compilation album Fantas Variations by Editions Mego
Performed by Evelyn Saylor, Lyra Pramuk, Stine Janvin and Annie Garlid
Album Artwork by Ruben Spini
By A Thread
Composition for piano, percussion, and synthesizer by Evelyn Saylor, Edoardo Calgari, and Diana Restrepo (2014)
Released on the album “GRAVITY” (2015, label: betont) – Evelyn Saylor, piano, Edoardo Calgari, synthesizer, Diana Restrepo, percussion
Photo by Evelyn Saylor
Releases as Arranger/Performer
Piriforms
by Laura Steenberge
Label: Sacred Realism (2025)
Appearing on ‘Piriforms’ and ‘Toile’ (Parts I, II, and II)
Rebecca Lane – bass flute, voice
Catherine Lamb – voice
Julia Holter – voice
Yannick Goudon – voice
Evelyn Saylor – voice
Matrices of Vision
by Abigail Toll
Label: Shelter Press (2023)
Abigail Toll, C-flute, Electronics
Rebecca Lane, Quartertone Bass Flute, C-flute
Lucy Railton, Cello
Evelyn Saylor, Vocals
PROTO
by Holly Herndon
Label: 4AD (2019)
Arranger of ‘Frontier’
Vocal soloist on ‘Frontier’ and ‘Evening Shades’
Ensemble vocalist on all tracks
Evelyn Saylor 