Neo-Classical Composer

AKTRE

String textures. Quiet feeling.
The space between grief and wonder.

Music that holds still long enough to feel something. AKTRE composes intimate orchestral worlds — not built for spectacle, but for the quieter truths that live in tension, loss, and the uncertain tenderness that follows.

New Release · 2026

The Loneliness of Grief — album artwork, AKTRE
III · 2026

The Loneliness of Grief

The newest work, and the most inward. Fifteen compositions about the silence that follows a loss — longing, holding on, letting go, and the ghosts of who we were.

Released
2026
Genre
Neo-Classical
Length
15 tracks · 32:15
Catalogue
DNA315
Tracklist
  1. Anatomy of Longing2:15
  2. The Strain of Holding On Too Tight1:36
  3. A Stillness That Never Heals2:54
  4. Broken Pieces of a Shattered Hope3:39
  5. Tangled in the Lies We Tell Ourselves2:59
  6. The Blessing is Next to the Wound2:47
  7. When the Silence Hurts1:51
  8. Drowning in the Unspoken Words1:54
  9. Where Does the Pain Go?2:33
  10. The Weight of What We Cannot Change1:49
  11. Between Faith and Failure1:11
  12. The Price of Letting Go2:16
  13. Breathing in the Ashes of Hope2:01
  14. The Distance Between Us and the End1:11
  15. Living with the Ghosts of Who We Were1:19

Earlier Works

The Death We Are Living — album artwork, AKTRE
I · 2019

The Death We Are Living

The debut: a slow, shadowed meditation on mortality, meaning and endurance. Ambient textures and sparse electronics circle fifteen short studies in impermanence, closing on a single word — Unbroken.

Released
2019
Genre
Neo-Classical
Length
15 tracks · 36:11
Catalogue
DNA186
Tracklist
  1. The Representation of a Thing by its Opposite1:25
  2. Lives Lived3:41
  3. My Black Heart3:36
  4. Constantly Dying2:02
  5. Fear of a Life Without Meaning2:08
  6. A Near Life Experience2:00
  7. You Without Me1:29
  8. The Poison of Truth1:42
  9. The Value of Time2:51
  10. Prior to Infinity2:17
  11. Existence is a Prison4:00
  12. All Life is Suffering2:29
  13. The Weight of Existence2:13
  14. Adding to Nothing2:01
  15. Unbroken2:17
The Death We Are Loving — album artwork, AKTRE
II · 2020

The Death We Are Loving

The turn toward strings and piano. Fifteen intimate miniatures on doubt, faith and the things that quietly undo us, with the ambient palette of the debut now framed in chamber writing.

Released
2020
Genre
Neo-Classical
Length
15 tracks · 35:40
Catalogue
DNA198
Tracklist
  1. Hurting to Help1:55
  2. Prolonged Emotional Distress2:43
  3. My First Death2:20
  4. When You Find Doubt2:33
  5. We Are Only the Sum of Our Experiences1:44
  6. The First Cause of All Things2:24
  7. How Flowers Communicate with Each Other1:55
  8. What's Killing Us?2:00
  9. Forging Meaning in a Meaningless World2:53
  10. Giving in to Mediocrity2:17
  11. The War We Died In1:57
  12. You Don't Know When You're Wrong2:23
  13. The World Ends All the Time2:54
  14. Nothing to a Void3:07
  15. God is Only Real if You Believe in Him2:35

The Music

Neo-classical, from the inside

AKTRE writes short, patient pieces — most under three minutes — built from strings, piano and long silences. Each record is a single sustained thought: a set of miniatures that return to the same questions from different angles.

A trilogy of loss and meaning

From the ambient shadows of The Death We Are Living to the chamber writing of The Death We Are Loving, and now the raw stillness of The Loneliness of Grief, the catalogue follows one arc: mortality, doubt, and what remains.

Made for listening, and for picture

Quiet, spacious and emotionally direct, the music suits reading, study, sleep and reflection — and film, documentary and theatre looking for restraint rather than spectacle.

Produced by

lionel Cohen

All AKTRE recordings are produced by lionel Cohen and released through dna-productions.

"There is a kind of music that does not arrive — it simply was always there, waiting for silence to make room for it."
— AKTRE