-April 2021-
I accepted an offer to write a reduction of the brass section in Franz Lehár’s ‘Paganini’ for the Clara-Schumann-Philharmoniker Plauen-Zwickau.
A smaller line-up is needed due to Corona restricitons.

Vienna Calling

-April 2021-
I just signed a contract for a production with Claudia Bauer at the ‘Volkstheater‘ in Vienna.
It’ll be quite a mountain to climb. The idea is to make a kind of a spoken opera with words/text of Ernst Jandl.
The premiere will be on the 17th of December 2021.

Additional Music

-April 2021-
Tim Plegge the house-choreographer of the ‘Hessisches Staatsballett’ is very happy with the music Roald Baudoux and I produced for his next production ‘memento‘ and he asked us for some additional compositions.
‘Work’ (Fun !!) starts next week. Yeah !

New Music Is Finished

-January 2021-
With our project ‘Dark Fader‘, Roald Baudoux and me just finished the composition of 9 electro-acoustic pieces for ‘memento‘. Please read more about it in the article below.
The premiere will take place on the 9th of april.
Last week I also finished 6 new compositions of mine for the production ‘Die Rechtschaffenen Mörder‘ (premiere on the 28th of March at Staatsschauspiel Dresden). We will start rehearsing next week and I’m looking so much forward to hear my music being performed by the fantastic AuditivVokal Ensemble.

Nice X-Mas Present

-December 2020-
Today I found back the contract for my first ballet production in my post box. That’s been a dream of mine for a long time – being part of the fusion between music and movement.
I asked my good friend Roald Baudoux from Dark Fader to join me. We will work for the ‘Hessisches Staatsballett’. The production is called ‘memento‘ and the choreaographer will be Tim Plegge.
The premiere will take place on the 16th of October 2021 in Darmstadt. The plan is to perform ‘memento’ in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden.

Productions in Leipzig and Dresden

-September 2020-
2 new theatre productions for which I will design the music will have their premiere on the 28th of March at Staatsschauspiel Dresden and on the 29th of April 2021 at Schauspiel Leipzig.

In Dresden we will perform ‘Die Rechtschaffenen Mörder‘ – a debut novel from Ingo Schulze.
We will be joined by some fantastic singers of AuditivVokal for which I’m allowed to write new compositions. The stage director will be Claudia Bauer.

In Leipzig we will work on the debut of ‘Widerstand’ – a theatre play especially created for Schauspiel Leipzig. The stage director will be Enrico Lübbe.

Orchestrations

-August 2020-
I was asked to write classical orchestrations of 4 well known Pop-Songs for the Sasel Haus. We decided to take ‘Rehab’ (Amy Winehouse), ‘Hallelujah’ (Leonard Cohen), ‘Norwegian Wood’ (The Beatles) and ‘Ring Of Fire’ (Johnny Cash). The line-up will be: Flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and double bass. Join the concert on the 16th of May 2021 – it will be fun.

Production in Frankfurt

-June 2020-
Last week I signed a contract for a production at the Schauspiel Frankfurt. We will work on Klaus Mann’s ‘Mephisto’. I’ll be the musical director and Claudia Bauer will be the stage director.
The rehearsals will start in August and I think we’ll be the opener of the season. The premiere is at 3rd of October 2020.
I’m looking forward to it.

Concerto For Double Choir

-March 2020-
I just finished my new ‘Concerto for Double Choir’ after having composed very intensely for the last couple of months, while simultaneously learning my new notation program ‘Dorico‘ (which is fantastic – finally I got rid of ‘Sibelius’ which made me angry much too often).
The Concerto will hopefully be performed by the end of 2020 by ‘Collegium Vocale‘ with their conductor Florian Lohmann who is a real master.

New CD out now !

-January 2020-
Some great news at the beginning of the year:
I found a nice Belgium-Based Label for my CD ‘me2+1’ which I recorded, produced and mixed with great musicians and friends.
Have a look here:
https://off-recordlabel.blogspot.com/2020/01/ouc023-peer-baierlein-me-1.html
This CD is about colours and energy and not the parameters to which most of us are used to (melody, harmony, rhythm).
Enjoy it on a quiet moment of your day/life.

Igor Strawinsky – L’Histoire Du Soldat

-October 2019-
On the 20th of october there will be a concert at the ‘Sasel Haus‘ for which I’m distributing some orchestrations. One part of the evening will be Igor Strawinskys „L’histoire du soldat – Die Geschichte des Soldaten“ together with the actors Victoria Trauttmansdorff and Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger.

For the other part, the visitors could choose their favorite classical works and I adapted them for Igor Strawinskys Septet-Line-Up. For more info, click here.

New Website – Welcome

-April 2019-
I think it was in 2017 when we played at a little private event and I met Johannes Töws for the first time. 
He was one of the guests and it turned out that he was an illustrator. I saw some of his works and fell in love with his drawings immediately.
I told him:’ Johannes, there will come a day when I’ll contact you and we’ll work together’.

Last year I decided to refresh my website.
The basic idea was to have much less unnecessary personal information.
The visitors should see nice paintings with lots of funny little details which conjure a smile on their faces. 

Of course Johannes was the first choice for this ‘assignment’.
We decided to first brainstorm – each for his own – to find a common thread for the site.
When we talked some days later we both had the exact same idea.

We wanted to tell the history of music in 6 pictures – starting in a bygone era, ending in the mañana.
Johannes wanted to add 3 main figures (they don’t have names yet). These are the little blue, green and yellow chimeras which can be seen in each picture. They evaluate together with their instruments and environment.

Most people don’t have time nowadays. But if you do have, take some minutes and explore Johannes’ fantastic work of art please.

The South Quartet with Ull Möck, Jan Dittmann, Matthias Daneck and Peer Baierlein belongs to a new generation of jazz players, who know no prejudices, play their own compositions, but still adhere to tradition while at the same time desire to express an individual creativity.
The quartet ventures into unknown grounds and follows unexplored paths.
Music which readily allows itself to be called jazz, but which also stands out through its open-mindedness to other music styles, yet, all the while marked by authenticity and carefree creativity.
The band members played with jazz giants like Reggie Washington, Clark Terry, Randy Brecker, Reggie Johnson, Peter Herbolzheimer, Arturo Sandoval, Pointer Sisters, Ute Lemper, and and and ….

Please visit us HERE.

Lounge Jazz gathers very good jazz musicians in different kind of formations, in order to play at occasions where sophisticated background jazz music is in demand.
This could be company celebrations and events, exhibitions, birthdays, weddings, openings, receptions, presentations, vernissages and and and…

Please visit us HERE.

Dark Fader, established in 2009, is a duo formed by Roald Baudoux and Peer Baierlein that focuses on a sensitive approach to live electronic music.

They create a sound that is extremely distinct and has very notable characteristics.
From crisp granular impacts to fluid textures, from urban soundscapes to abstract sequences, from fleeting moments to developed structures, everything is smoothly balanced in order to create a perfect musical entity.

With roots in acousmatic music, jazz, free improvisation and sound art, the two establish their own genre. 

Dark Fader doesn’t want to deliver automated compositions but rather aims to play with attention, creating an organic connection between gestures and processed recordings.
The design and interplay between controllers, interactive software and its programming become a part of the compositional process.

The introduction of multiple modulation layers turns the listeners into partners in an unrepeatable creative process.

Please visit us HERE.

Founded in 2001, the TIVOLI BAND successfully revisits the repertoires of the salon, jazz, dance and film orchestras of the first half of the 20th century.

This ensemble gathers between 6 to 33 professional musicians and occurs – according to the content of the program – in the form of a string quintet with piano, string orchestra (strings, woodwinds, brass and piano) or in a big band line-up with violins, saxophones, brass and rhythm section.

The TIVOLI BAND repertoire covers 50 years of entertainment, dance and concert music.

The genres approached are innumerable: the band replays the waltzes, quadrilles and polkas of the ‘Belle Epoque’ – while the “crazy years” reanimate the sounds of foxtrot, slow-fox, one-step and melodies for silent movie.

The orchestra finally revisits the ‘swing’ repertoire of European and American big bands; the great standards, but also the most famous compositions of South American music (rumba, cha-cha, beguine, mambo, tango, samba, …).

Please visit us HERE.

The ‘Archidukes’ became a ‘house band’ of the famous ‘Archiduc’ café in Brussels, which was established by the Belgian swing legend Stan Brenders – therefore the name for the quartet was quickly chosen.

Every time Peer Baierlein (tp) visits his former home in Belgium, he meets Igor Gehenot (p), Alex Gilson (b) and Lionel Beuvens (dr) for a ‘Round About 5’ session at the Dansaertstraat.

These performances are always so much fun for both, the audience and the musicians, that the 4 decided to start performing in other clubs in Belgium.

Their music is characterized by many different influences which result of the original compositions of each band member.
The group creates a very distinct quartet sound that is deeply rooted in the jazz tradition.
They use many different stylistic elements for the development of their own creativity and the exploration of new harmonic and rhythmic paths.