- “one of the most brilliant pianists of the contemporary repertoire” The Sunday Times
Performances at Kings Place in London and with Plus-Minus (external link) at the Spor Festival, Denmark in April and May.
New John Cage (external link) cd with Friedrich Gauwerky (external link) (cello) released on the Wergo label (external link).
Recent and Upcoming Performances
Ensemble Plus-Minus
Out Hear
20:00, Monday 20 September 2010
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom
Plus Minus presents Stockhausen (external link)'s seminal electro-acoustic work Mantra alongside a new piece written for this occasion by Newton Armstrong in a concert featuring pianos, crotales, short wave radios, morse code, resonance, ring modulators and a woodblock. Mark Knoop, Roderick Chadwick pianos; Newton Armstrong electronics.
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | Mantra | 197065 |
| Newton Armstrong | new work | 2010* |
Letter Piece Company
Transit Festival
14:00, Sunday 24 October 2010
Leuven STUK (external link)
Naamsestraat 96
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium
The Letter Piece Company (external link) presents two new quartets for dancer and musicians at the Transit (external link) Festival in Leuven.
| Shlomowitz/Anaraki | Five Finger Discount | 2010*20 |
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Letter Piece #5 (Northern Cities) | 20096 |
| Tom Johnson | Narayana’s Cows | 198916 |
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Letter Piece #3 (Australia, Bolton, Clinton, Dachshund and Echinacea) | 20085 |
| Shlomowitz/Anaraki | Mixed Doubles | 2010*20 |
Quartet
Junge Avantgarde
20:00, Wednesday 27 October 2010
RWE Pavilion (external link)
Philharmonie Essen
Essen
Germany
Essen Philharmonie (external link) presents the quartet of Eva Zöllner (external link) (accordion), Carl Rosman (external link) (clarinet), John Eckhardt (double bass) and Mark Knoop (piano).
| Rebecca Saunders | Quartet | 199813 |
| Unsuk Chin | Piano Etude No 6 (Grains) | 20003 |
| Georgina Derbez | Symphonia | 2006 |
| Richard Barrett | Flechtwerk | 2002-0614 |
| Helmut Oehring | Plath, S. | 1998/200515 |
| Brian Ferneyhough | Time and Motion Study I | 1971-779 |
| Gordon Kampe | HAL | 2010*15 |
Popular Contexts
Out Hear
20:00, Monday 22 November 2010
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom
Loving and wistful, savage and bitter, Finnissy (external link)'s colossal early work challenges and celebrates notions of Englishness through engagement with English folk-song and its connotations of rural innocence. Shlomowitz (external link)'s new work for piano and sampler (written for Mark Knoop) presents new perspectives on the familiar.
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts | 2010*30 |
| Michael Finnissy | English Country-Tunes | 1977/1982-8550 |
Letter Piece Company
Huddersfield Festival
13:00, Thursday 25 November 2010
(tbc)
Huddersfield
United Kingdom
The Letter Piece Company (external link) presents two new quartets for dancer and musicians at the Huddersfield Festival.
| Shlomowitz/Anaraki | Five Finger Discount | 2010¶20 |
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Letter Piece #5 (Northern Cities) | 20096 |
| Tom Johnson | Narayana’s Cows | 198916 |
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Letter Piece #3 (Australia, Bolton, Clinton, Dachshund and Echinacea) | 20085 |
| Shlomowitz/Anaraki | Mixed Doubles | 2010¶20 |
Ablinger/Reinholdtsen Double Portrait
Huddersfield Festival
16:00, Friday 26 November 2010
(tbc)
Huddersfield
United Kingdom
Musical drama and concert with the Plus-Minus (external link) ensemble.
| Trond Reinholdtsen | Concert Music Piece | 2008 |
| Peter Ablinger | Instrumente und Rauschen | 1997, 200818 |
| Peter Ablinger | Bertolt Brecht, Lech Walesa, Hanna Schygulla from Voices and Piano | 1998-15 |
| Trond Reinholdtsen | 13 Music Theatre Pieces | 200815 |
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