He is making the most of his current residency in Berlin as a visiting fellow at the city’s Institute for Advanced Study. As well as a recent performance of his monodrama Cassandre at the Philharmonie, he has been commissioned to write a viola concerto for Tabea Zimmermann and the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, to be performed in 2017. This week, he was the subject of a composer portrait given by the Ensemble United Berlin under their Artistic Advisor and long-time conductor Vladimir Jurowski.