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Pierre-Henri Wicomb is a South African composer.^[1] He is the son of the famous South African folk duo Randall and Koba Wicomb. His environment when growing up was one of constant musical interaction nurturing an interest and future aesthetics drawing from jazz, Afrikaans folk music, theatre music and classical music.

Wicomb completed composition studies in South Africa under Roelof Temmingh, Hendrik Hofmeyr and Theo Herbst. He furthered his studies in The Netherlands completing a post graduate degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium^[2] studying under Gilius van Bergeijk and Diderik Haakma Wagenaar. It is here that he founded the experimental group WOOF^[3] together with two fellow composition students. He was the co-founder and pianist of the contemporary classical music group EJNCP and he is currently the pianist for the improvisation group Africa Open Improvising.

Wicomb's works has been performed in festivals including the Festival d'Automne^[4],International Computer Music Conference,^[5] ISCM World New music Days 2023^[6],New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival^[7],to name a few.

Wicomb was a prizewinner for the NewMusicSA call for works with his Double Bass Concerto, the RMN electroacoustic music competition^[8]with his work BlaBlaBlaBlaBlavet and the Ablaze Records electroacoustic music competition.^[9] Wicomb also works as a film and theatre composer creating soundtracks for productions including the winning Canal+ series Spinners,^[10] the Disney series Kizazi Moto:Generation Fire and the widely praised ecological horror Gaia.^[11] Wicomb has won two South African Film and Television Awards (Saftas)^[12] and a Fleur du Cap award for his original music for the theatre production Marat/Sade.^[13]

Wicomb's music is a combination of a more familiar harmonic sound world in combination with an unpredictable, irregular rhythmic approach akin to that of serial music. His music often incorporates theatrical and psychoanalytic theories.

• Roads to and fro (2010)

• Polaroid (2006, clarinet, bass clarinet, viola, cello, double bass, tuba and percussion)
• A line for Rachael Whiteread (2007, trumpet, viola, double bass, piano and percussion)
• Violence made easy (2008, clarinet, viola, double bass, percussion, piano body and strings and piano )
• Trio (2009, viola, double bass and piano)
• Emergence (2010, saxophone, viola, double bass, piano and percussion)
• My love is trying (2010, piano, viola, double bass, percussion and narrator)
• A sound briefing: Introducing Silence (2010, flute, oboe, saxophone, cello, guitar and piano)
• ...in October (2010, mezzo soprano and piano)
• Domicilium (2011, for any instrument adhering to the range of the music and piano)
• And so began (2013, viola, cello, piano, percussion and narrator)
• Sing you! la-re-ti (2013, voice, saxophone, piano and soundtrack)
• Your mother's molecules (2014, bass flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello and piano)
• [Com]poser (2014, voice, electronics and piano)
• Ever after (2014, flute, clarinet, viola, double bass and piano)
• Four real (2015, string quartet)
• Pat[i]ent (2015, piano with 2 musicians)
• Pool (2015, trombone and percussion, incl. vibraphone)
• Double bass Concerto (2016, double bass, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello and piano)
• Three milieus (2016, voice and piano)
• Game for less than two (2016, alto saxophone, clarinet in b flat and double bass)
• Automation (2018, trombone and percussion)
• Sue-hm Kwee (2018, saxophone quartet)
• ...Juliet is the sun (2019, flute, clarinet in B flat, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion.)
• Lightning lessons (2019, xylophone and piano)
• Catch! culture (2024, eight voices)

• To Pulse II (2006, piano)
• Solving Solo (2006, violin)
• Karaoke later (2009, saxophone and Midi soundtrack)
• Where music is.... (2010, piano)
• Earthed (2010, piano, electronics and soundtrack)
• Eavesdrop (2013, piano and soundtrack)
• Me [An]D (2015, piano, Midi soundtrack)
• Solicism (2015, French horn in F and soundtrack)
• Self-portrait (2016, piano)
• Spelling and sound (2016, violin)
• Quaver left (2016, piano)
• It'll be a thing... (2018, clarinet in B flat)
• [S]kin-ship (2020, piano and soundtrack)
• Role-ing (2021, piano, electronics and soundtrack)

• 3x3x3 (2016, city centre installation piece for 3-4 performers)
• On air (2016, 7 speakers/actors on different levels)
• The gathering (2018, actor, soundtrack and participants present)
• Trees B (2020, for violin, harp and video)

• Play.playable.playing (2005, electronic-visual piece for the notation program Sibelius)
• Bird's birds (2013, eletroacoustic piece)
• Mozart oooh! (2013, eletroacoustic piece)
• An aesthetics of rat bites (2018, electroacoustic piece)
• Now for triads (2018, for the robot toy piano of Ranjit Bhatnagar and MIDI soundtrack)
• Composition machine (2020, interactive online electroacoustic piece)
• BlaBlaBlaBlaBlavet (2021, electroacoustic piece)
• Evenly-hovering (2021, electroacoustic piece)
• Hommage mirage (2022, electroacoustic piece)