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 16th
Paris Autmn Festival
Ensemble Nikel
France
Portrait Concert Septermber 2025
collected works
Ensemble Modern, Happy New Ears series
Warsaw
Poland
Bunny
Recording. Hamberg
NDR Big Band, Ensemble Modern
Jonathan Stockhammer
Justgum Friends 1 July 2025
Edinburgh
Plus minus ensemble
Vicky Wright Roderick chadwick
Justgum Friends 29 June 2025
Cafe Oto London
Plus minus ensemble
Vicky Wright Roderick chadwick
Shrimp BIT Baby Face 28 June
Riot Ensemble, Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Mancester
Don’t Leave Me Behind (20 mins) 28th June 2025 WP
Commissioned for Ensemble Modern,
Wigmore Hall, Vimbayi Kaziboni
Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP
ilolli-pop 22 June 2025
collected works
Ensemble Modern, Happy New Ears series, Toby Thatcher
Frankfurt
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.
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 EnsembleDokkhuset Scene
Trondheim
Norway
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Dadd’s Fairies
Hallé OrchestraConductor 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 WienKonzerthaus: Mozart SaalLothringerstraße 20, Vienna, 1030, Austria
1 Febuary
Big Gay Cartoon Machine Solo
Nottingham Royal Concert HallYshani Perinpanayagam
1st December 2023
Od Ody Pink’d
WDR Symphony Orchestra + Alex PaxtonMusik der Zeit
Cologne
Pullbackhat Biome-Dunk WP
WDR Symphony Orchestra + Alex Paxton + Jennifer WalshMusik der Zeit
Cologne
25th November 2023
JustGum Friends
B-L Duo Bates mill Blending Shed. HCMFHuddersfield 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 EnsmebleFrankfurt
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 EnsmebleGaudiamus Festival
Holland
SOLO
Alex Paxton Trombone
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Germany
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Germany
August 14, 2023,
Spit Crystal Yeast-rack, dripping.
(in Orange)
Explore EnsembleSchleswig-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 Festivalin Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
Japan
July 5, 2023,
Guest with Ilan Volkov Sextet
Guest with Ilan Volkov Sextet
Alex Paxton improvising Trombone
Tel Aviv International Festival for Contemporary Music (Tzil Meudcan)
Tel Aviv International Festival for Contemporary Music (Tzil Meudcan)
July 5, 2023,
SOL0
Alex Paxton Trombone
Tel Aviv International Festival for Contemporary Music (Tzil Meudcan)
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 EnsembleWigmore 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
with Laura Jurd
Cheltneam Jazz Festival
April 29, 2023,
Blue-Chew Cheerio Earpiece
Riot Ensemble + Alex PaxtonConductor Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Kings Place London
April 28, 2023,
Happy Music for Orchestra.
ALBUM RELEASE
Delphian RecordsMarch 28, 2023,
Water Music.
Single RELEASE
Dreammusics Orchestra. Beibei WangDelphian Records
March 25, 2023,
Blue-Chew Cheerio Earpiece
Riot Ensemble + Alex PaxtonConductor Aaron Holloway-Nahum
MaerzMusik Berlin
20.03.2023 – HYPER STUCK @ Oggimusica – Lugano CH
March 10, 2023,
Sweet Wishes
Single RELEASE
Dreammusics Orhcestra + Alex PaxtonDelphian Records
March 8, 2023,
Shrimpbit Baby-Face
Klangforum WienDeutschlandfunkkultur Broadcast and interview 20.00
March 4, 2023,
Shrimpbit Baby-Face
Klangforum WienPierre Boulez Saal Franz.
Str. 33D, 10117 Berlin, Germany
March 10, 2023,
Love Kittens
Single RELEASE
Dreammusics OrhcestraDelphian Records
February 23, 2023,
Sweet Wishes
Southbank Sinfonia + Alex PaxtonNonclassical
Conductor Toby Thatcher
Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA
February 23, 2023,
iLolli-pop
Ensemble Modern + Alex PaxtonBroadcast SWR2 NowMusic, 9:05 p.m
Febuary 1 2023,
iLolli-pop
Ensemble Modern + Alex PaxtonConductor 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
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 PaxtonLondon jazz Festival
Southabnk Centre Purcell Room
November 18 2022
SOLO
Alex Paxton Trombone
London jazz Festival
Southabnk Centre Purcell Room
London jazz Festival
Southabnk Centre Purcell Room
November 09 2022
Somtimes voices
B-L DuoHuddersfield 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).
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