- “the sharpest Australian intellect at the keyboard” The Age
Mark Knoop will perform with ELISION in Australia and 175 East in New Zealand in August 2008.
A new realization of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Plus Minus by Mark Knoop will be premièred at the 2008 Ultima Festival by asamisimasa.
Mark Knoop
Mark Knoop is a pianist and conductor living in London, UK. He studied piano with Stephen McIntyre at the Victorian College of the Arts and in Europe with various mentors including Herbert Henck, James Avery and Peter Feuchtwanger. He studied conducting in Melbourne with Robert Rosen and is co-artistic director of the Libra Ensemble.
Mark has appeared throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia and in New Zealand, South Korea, Mongolia, United States of America, Canada and at festivals including the Huddersfield, Spitalfields, Borealis, Lucerne, Melbourne, and Adelaide Festivals, the Sydney Spring Festival, and the 1997 ISCM World Music Days.
He performs with such groups as plus-minus (London/Brussels), Ensemble Exposé (London), ELISION Ensemble (Brisbane), Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), 175 East (Auckland), musikFabrik (Köln), WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Ensemble Offspring (Sydney) and Ensemble Laboratorium (Europe).
- photo: Yatzek
Mark has conducted numerous premieres including Jason Eckardt’s Tongues, Bryn Harrison’s Rise, Erik Ulman’s Thoughts on the Esterhazy Court Uniform and Benjamin Marks’ á l’abîme béant; and the Australian premieres of Elliott Carter’s Clarinet Concerto, Hans Werner Henze’s Kammermusik 1958, John Cage’s Sixteen Dances, and Michael Finnissy’s Various Nations. He also performed the Australian premieres of Finnissy’s mammoth piano cycle The History of Photography in Sound and Richard Barrett’s Tract.
Mark has worked with many respected composers including Michael Finnissy, Chris Dench, James Dillon, Liza Lim, Adam Yee, Benjamin Marks, Richard Barrett, David Young, Matthew Shlomowitz, Thomas Meadowcroft, Erik Ulman, and many others. Solo works composed for him include Chris Dench’s into the wormworks and the heart’s algorithms (both members of the Phase Portraits cycle), Benjamin Marks’ La Chute, Diana Burrell’s Paragraph with Curve, and Dominik Karski’s Streams Within for piano and ensemble.
Recent projects include the premiere of Flechtwerk --- a major new work by Richard Barrett for clarinet and piano (with Carl Rosman), and recording the piano music of David Lumsdaine for the Tall Poppies label.
