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  • We see a watercolor image of many colorful brush strokes, mainly blues, greens and red with added cut outs of a fiel of mushrooms to the bottom left, venice bottom right and on top a black and white image of an Ornithopter. in the middle we see the cut out letters N Y C
    2023-04-30

    NYC, here I come again!

    I get to hear my newest work in New York City later this month! I wrote new pieces as part of a song cycle for Brooklyn Youth Chorus and they will perform the triptych May 11th at Kaufmann Center New York for Ecstatic Festival! Come join me :D See the links below for all the info you need.

  • We see Alev lying on the floor with her hairs spread out and tuning forks arranged like a sun dial around her head, on top of her hair. She smiles a gentle smile, wearing a checkered and flower patterned blouse. The floor is white, it is a white quilt but barely noticable as such.
    2022-12-12

    New profile pic!

    Maybe you have already seen that I shared a brand new picture :D it is also in my about section and of course in the gallery. The fantastic Anja Schütz took it this summer in Massachusetts, in North Adams to be exact. The tuning forks are the forks Roomful Of Teeth have used for their rendition of 7 Planets - based on my choral arragements for Milky Way. I got them from the wonderful Fritz at planetware.de !
    He is also from Munich, something I didn't know when researching where I might find tuning forks "out of tune" a ...

  • 2022-12-04

    WNYC New Sound Interview with live music!

    This is such a special show for me, please have a listen! John Schaefer has been a supporter for …
  • We see a render of the Lincol Center in New York early evening hours, the sky slightly dim, a brand new building with large glass panels between 7 columns, lit from inside with peope inside and outside on the sidewalk infront of it
    2022-10-24

    New piece for BYC and NYC premiere!

    I am thrilled to be musically returning to NYC and to have had the honour to write again for …
  • 2022-09-27

    3 4 3 - Happy Birthday 3!!!

    On this day in 2019 I released '3' - the first LP and sample library release on SA Recordings! 3 is a collection of twelve almost completely acapella songs exploring relationships, empowerment, motherhood and the patriarchy.⁠

    To celebrate the third birthday of 3 SA Recordings I am so pleased to be able to bring you new music in form of a remix EP, '343', made with the help of three wonderful women, Nyokabi Kariũki (finally her winning RECOMPOSE competition version of Fishermen is released online:) ) , Sandunes and Lisel!
    Find the EP here: orcd.co/343alevlenz

  • We see the movie poster for the short film ‘Gut, danke.’ This title we also see in white letters top left. The poster itself is grey and we see two faces melting into one in the middle. A man to the left; we see two photos of the father in the movie going through the emotions from rage to depression to probably acceptance , melted in with his daughter face displaying the same expressions from right to Center
    2022-09-09

    New Release!

    I have new music out today! ‘Gut, Danke.’ is a wonderful, touching and gentle short film about …
  • On a large wite square we see two hand passing a root vegetable with greens growing out of it and two weaver birds in the top right and lower left corner infront of a smaller square depicting the blue sky with white clouds
    2022-09-02

    Show for Nyokabi Kariũki

    I sure hope you remember the winner of the Recompose competition from 2020 Nyokabi Kariũki ! As you know, she also released her debut record not too long after on out now mutual label SA Records! And now the first live show for this record is coming up. She asked me to sing with her for this very first show and I feel very honoured to usher the record in with her onto the stage! Come say hi! Tickets here !

  • We see 7 rectangles , portraits of composers, stacked on top of each other, three above showing Angélica Negrón, inti figgis-vizueta and Rose Bond,  four below showing Leilehua Lanzilotti, Gabriel Kahane, Nathalie Joachim and Alev Lenz.
    2022-08-16

    Roomful Of Teeth and Friends !

    I am delighted to join Roomful Of Teeth at their residency this year at MassMoca as once of their composers for new work. Which they will indeed perform for the very first time tomorrow at MassMoca (aka the most awesome place).

    Read a little about the residency here: Berkshire Eagle

    And find some more info about the show here: MassMoca.org

    For my pieces we needed planetary tuning forks as they are not in concert pitch and we need to tune to the planets instead. The image you can see below is a resonator I have built just for this...

  • 2022-06-24

    Anoushka's wonderful new single

    The incomparable Anoshka Shankar has a new song out today, announcing an upcoming album!
    The song Land of Gold (originally the title-track of her 2016 Grammy-nominated album) is out now in a lush new orchestral avatar via Leiter Verlag.

    Credits:
    Performed by: Anoushka Shankar, Manu Delago, Metropole Orkest and conductor Jules Buckley.
    Composed by: Anoushka Shankar, Manu Delago and me
    New orchestral arrangement by: Jules Buckley

    Enjoy and also find it on my collabs Spotify playlist which is ever growing and changing!

  • 2022-06-17

    'Eggshell' movie debut!

    If you catch this movie, see if you can spot my song 'Eggshell' ! How very fitting for it to appear in a movie about Peter Pan and growing up - or not ;)
    The Lost Girls directed by Livia De Paolis starring Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Iain Glen, Julian Ovenden, Louis Partridge and more is out now! And 'Eggshell' is here (or any other of your favorite streaming service)!