ALEX PAXTON

Composer. Improvising-trombonist.


“In a dark, time this music will make you smile . . .This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages!”
New York Times

Calender





 NEW WORK (30 mins) WP 2026
Symphony  Orchestra & Big Band & jazz voice
WDR Symphony Orchestra, WDR Big Band, Sofia Jernberg

Don’t Leave Me Behind (20mins)
9th November 2025: Essen NOW, Philharmonic Essen
Ensemble Modern

Don’t Leave Me Behind (20mins)
3rd November 2025:
Ensemble Modern
Frankfurt
Germnay

World Builder, Creature (25 mins)
October 2025
London Symphony Orchestra

NEW WORK (20-30mins) WP
October 16th
Paris Autmn Festival
Ensemble Nikel
France
NEW WORK (20-30mins) WP
October 2025
Paris Autmn Festival
Solo Trombone + IRCAM collaboration
France

NEW WORK (20-30mins) WP
October 16th
Paris Autmn Festival
Ensemble Nikel
France

Portrait Concert Septermber 2025
collected works
Ensemble Modern, Happy New Ears series
Warsaw
Poland

Justgum Friends 1 Juuly 2025
Edinburgh
Plus minus ensemble

Justgum Friends 29 June 2025
Cafe Oto London
Plus minus ensemble

Shrimp BIT Baby Face 28 June
Riot Ensemble
Mancester

Don’t Leave Me Behind (20 mins) 28th June 2025 WP
Commissioned for Ensemble Modern,
Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP

ilolli-pop 22 June 2025
collected works
Ensemble Modern, Happy New Ears series
Frankfurt
Germany 

NEW WORK (15 mins) June 2025 WP
String Orhcestra + Omer Meir Wellber
Sinfonietta Leipzig
SHMF Germany

JUNE 12:  Spit Crystal Yeast Rack dripping (a l’orange)
Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble
 Krakow, Poland

Hairy Pony Estampie (12mins)
Sat.May 17
Podium Esslingum

Delicious
Album release May 16th
New Amsterdam Records

Somtimes Voices
12 May
Podium Esslingum

Scrunchy Touch Sweetly To Fall 3rd May
Musik Fabrik
Witten, Germany
WITTENER TAGE FÜR NEUE KAMMERMUSIK

Bunny (25 mins) 27 April 2025 WP
Ensemble Modern and NDR Big Band
Hamberg Germany

Od Ody Pink’d (10 mins)
Orhcestra + Soloist
Basel Sinfonia. Kevin John Edusei
Basel

How to Eat your Sexuality (75mins)  28 Febuary  2025
NeueVocalsolisten  + ECLAT festival Vimbayi Kaziboni
6 solo voices + electronics
Viena
Austria

Scrunchy touch sweetly to fall (10mins) 11 Febuary
Ensemble Recherche
NYKY ensmeble
Musica nova Helsinki

World Builder, Creature (25 mins) 7 Febuary 2025 WP
Elb Philharmonie NDR Symphony Orchestra + Alan Gilbert
Elb Phiharmonie Hamburg Germany

How to Eat your Sexuality (75mins)  5 Febuary  2025
Klangforum Wien,  NeueVocalsolisten + ECLAT festival + Vimbayi Kaziboni
6 solo voices,Fl, Ob, Cl, Sax, Fg, Hr, Tr, Pos, 2 Perc, 2 Keyboards, Akk, 2 Vl, Vla, Vlc, Cb, electronics
+ E. Guitar
Stuttgart ECLAT fest.

Big Gay Cartoon Machine set (45 mins) 1 Febuary 2025 WP
Dreammusics Trio Jay Davis, Elliot Galvin, Alex Paxton
ITO FESTIVAL
Berlin

Music for Bosch People & Some Prayer (whole album 50 mins)
2nd December
Elb Philharmonie
Dreammusics Ensemble
Hamburgh
Germany

Car-Pig
19 November 2025:
Zubin Kanga.
Huddesfield Contemporary music Festival (HCMF)

Spit Crystal Yeast Rack dripping (a l’orange)
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
Alice Copenhagen, 17. November 2024.

Apocalypse Flower (12 mins) (WP)
October 2024
Emily White
British Trombone Festival

Hairy Pony Estampie (10mins)
28 October
Slide Action album release
ROSL
London

iLolli-pop
21st September 2024:
Ensemble Modern Jonothan Cross conductor
Warsaw Autumn, Polish Radio Station Warsaw

September 17, 2024
iLolli-pop
Remix Ensemble + Alex Paxton + Enno Poppe
Casa da Música
Porto, Portugal
8th September
Alex Paxton & Steve Noble duo
Hundred Years Gallery
8th September.
levels of Affection
ensemble le bestiaire
Paris, France

Car-Pig
08 Spetember 2024:
Zubin Kanga.
Gaudeamus Festival
Holland


Lurv Ya 
7 September 2024
Tatsuki Narita
Forest Hall, Tokyo
Japan

Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall

3rd July 2024:
Ensemble Modern + Jonothan Cross conductor
Warsaw Autumn at Happy New Ears, HfMDK Frankfurt


Hairy Pony Estampie

3rd July 2024.
Slide Action
NMC birthday concert Spitafields Music Festival

June 24, 2024 -
Cream Cream Waterfall SCream
LoadBang Ensemble
A Divergent Opening*

14 June
Somtimes voices
Mikołaj Rytowski
Basel, Switzland

13 may
Waterbutt: lovers, snorkel  WP
MZ duo.
Royal Over-seas legue
London

5th May
ilolli-pop & Spit Crystal Yeast-rack
Bang on a Can Long PLay Festival
New York ,
USA

May 3, 2024 -
Cream Cream Waterfall SCream 
loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol. 23 at
(New York, NY)
USA

3rd May
ilolli-pop & Spit Crystal Yeast-rack
Bang on a Can Long PLay Festival
New York ,

5th April

ShrimpBIT Baby-Face

Sitron Ensemble
Dokkhuset Scene
Trondheim
Norway

Wednesday 3 April 2024

Dadd’s Fairies

Hallé Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Ades
Mancester

Cream Cream Waterfall Scream  WP
March 29, 2024 - loadbang Presents: Hypo/Hyper at Opera America*
(New York, NY)
USA

Saturday 16.3.2024
B-L Duo @ MearzeMusik Berlin Festival
Somtimes voices

20th Febuary 2024

Shrimpbit Baby-Face

Klangforum Wien
Konzerthaus: Mozart SaalLothringerstraße 20, Vienna, 1030, Austria

1 Febuary

Big Gay Cartoon Machine Solo

Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Yshani Perinpanayagam

1st December 2023

Od Ody Pink’d

WDR Symphony Orchestra + Alex Paxton
Musik der Zeit
Cologne

Pullbackhat Biome-Dunk  WP

WDR Symphony Orchestra + Alex Paxton + Jennifer Walsh
Musik der Zeit
Cologne

25th November 2023

JustGum Friends

B-L Duo Bates mill Blending Shed. HCMF
Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival,
Huddersfield
Uk

November 2 2023
Music for Bosch People
Ensemble Klang + Alex Paxton
Amer. The Hague. Holland

September 19, 2023,

Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall

IEMA Ensmeble
Frankfurt

September 19, 2023
Love you’s Bus Eyes
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Hamburg

September 11-14, 2023
Shrimp Bit Baby-Face. Recording
Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain.
Bern, Switzland

September 8, 2023,

Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall

IEMA Ensmeble
Gaudiamus Festival
Holland


SOLO

Alex Paxton Trombone
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Germany

August 14, 2023,

Spit Crystal Yeast-rack, dripping.  
(in Orange)

Explore Ensemble
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Germany

July 27, 2023,
Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall
IEMA Ensmeble

Impulse Festival
Graz
Austria

2023, 8th July

More Classical Music

Born Creative Festival
in Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
Japan
July 5, 2023,
Guest with Ilan Volkov Sextet
Alex Paxton improvising Trombone
Tel Aviv International Festival for Contemporary Music (Tzil Meudcan)

Alex Paxton Trombone
Tel Aviv International Festival for Contemporary Music (Tzil Meudcan)


24.06.2023

Just Gum Friends

B-L DUO. Bertram Wee / lynette Yeo)
SLAP Dance Studio
144 Robinson Road, Singapore 068908


22.06.2023 – HYPER STUCK Somtimes Voices @ Contrapunkt – Saint-Gall CH

23.06.2023 – HYPER STUCK Somtimes Voices @ CMC concerts de musique contemporaine – La Chaux-de-Fonds CH

June 21, 2023,

Spit Crystal Yeast-rack, dripping

Explore Ensemble
Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP

May 26
Ernst Von Siemans Prize Ceremony
Documentry film premier - Johannas List
Munich
germany
Alex Paxton - improvising trombone
with Laura Jurd
Cheltneam Jazz Festival

April 29, 2023,

Blue-Chew Cheerio Earpiece

Riot Ensemble + Alex Paxton
Conductor Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Kings Place London

April 28, 2023,

Happy Music for Orchestra.
ALBUM RELEASE

Delphian Records
Alex Paxton & Steve Noble DUO
@Hundred Years Gallery, 
13 Pearson St, London E2 8JD

March 28, 2023,

Water Music.
Single RELEASE

Dreammusics Orchestra. Beibei Wang
Delphian Records

March 25, 2023,

Blue-Chew Cheerio Earpiece

Riot Ensemble + Alex Paxton
Conductor Aaron Holloway-Nahum
MaerzMusik Berlin
20.03.2023 – HYPER STUCK @ Oggimusica – Lugano CH

March 10, 2023,

Sweet Wishes
Single RELEASE

Dreammusics Orhcestra + Alex Paxton
Delphian Records

March 8, 2023,

Shrimpbit Baby-Face

Klangforum Wien
Deutschlandfunkkultur Broadcast and interview 20.00

March 4, 2023,

Shrimpbit Baby-Face

Klangforum Wien 
Pierre Boulez Saal Franz.
Str. 33D, 10117 Berlin, Germany

March 10, 2023,

Love Kittens
Single RELEASE

Dreammusics Orhcestra
Delphian Records

February 23, 2023,

Sweet Wishes

Southbank Sinfonia + Alex Paxton
Nonclassical
Conductor Toby Thatcher
Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA

February 23, 2023,

iLolli-pop

Ensemble Modern + Alex Paxton
Broadcast SWR2 NowMusic, 9:05 p.m

Febuary 1 2023,

iLolli-pop

Ensemble Modern + Alex Paxton
Conductor Enno Poppe
ECLAT festival
Theaterhaus Stuttgart. 

Januray 25 2023
Alex Paxton - improvising trombone
with Moss Freed’s Union Divison
Vortex Jazz Club
London

Januray 19 2023
Alex Paxton - improvising trombone
with Steve Noble Quartet
Cafe Oto
London

November 18 2022

Meany

London Sinfionetta + Alex Paxton
London jazz Festival
Southabnk Centre Purcell Room

November 18 2022

SOLO

 Alex Paxton Trombone
London jazz Festival
Southabnk Centre Purcell Room

November 09 2022

Somtimes voices

B-L Duo
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival HCMF
Bates Mill, Huddersfield

October  28th 2022
Release with Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Philharmonia Orchestra. Levels of Affection. NMC. PRS

October 6.   2022 ilolli-pop Full Album Release. (45mins) Nonclassical.


30.09.2022 – HYPER STUCK  Somtimes Voices @ La Voirie – Biel/Bienne CH

24.09.2022 – HYPER STUCK Somtimes Voices @ Fracanaüm – Salle Paderewski – Lausanne CH

October 4  2022
Dampfzentrale, Bern
Shrimp BIT Baby face. (20mins). Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain.

17 September  2022
BCV Concert Hall, Lausanne
Label La Suise Festival - Shrimp BIT Baby face. (20mins). Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain.

16 September  2022
Temple Allemand
Co-production NEC - Label La Suise Festival - Shrimp BIT Baby face. (20mins).
Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain.

12 September  2022
Klangspreien Festival Innsbruck - Shrimp BIT Baby face. (20mins). Riot Ensemble. Aaron Nahum-Holloway

10th September  2022
TiVre, Pandora
Gaudiamus Festival Utrecht - Music for Bosch People. (15mins). Ensemble Klang


10th September  2022
Gaudiamus Festival Utrecht . But What About Ensemble.- Improvisation (30mins).

8th September  2022
DUMS, Marnixzaal
Gaudiamus Festival Utrecht - JustGum Friends (12mins) - Two Envelopes

7th September  2022
TiVre, Hertz
Gaudiamus Festival Utrecht - ilolli-pop. Askoschoenberg Ensemble. (26 mins) Clark Rundell. Alex Paxton

1st September  2022 
Single release. Non-calssical ilolli-pop. 1lollipop. (3mins)

27.08.2022 – HYPER STUCK Somtimes Voices @ Bellelay Musiques – Bellelay CH

14.07.22 – HYPER DUO Somtimes Voices  @ Pod’ring festival – Biel/Bienne CH