Performances between 2008 and 2009

Music of Today: Luca Francesconi

Philharmonia Orchestra

18:00, Thursday 31 January 2008
Royal Festival Hall (external link)
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

André de Ridder (external link), conductor; Luigi Gaggero (external link), cimbalom; Julian Anderson (external link), presenter.

New Rational Music

Rational Rec

20:00, Tuesday 5 February 2008
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (external link)
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

New Rational Music is Rational Rec (external link)´s annual commissions showcase for the best in emerging and established composers. Each piece will be a world première by established artists, written for a variety of instruments. New Rational Music offers new audiences a unique opportunity to experience contemporary music in a welcoming setting, contrasting with the usual concert venues traditionally associated with notated music.

The pieces will be performed by Mark Knoop, Alan Thomas, Vicky Wright, Marcus Barcham-Stevens and Guido Henneböhl (external link).

musikFabrik im WDR: Hörachsen

musikFabrik

20:00, Friday 8 February 2008
Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz (external link)
Köln
Germany

Carl Rosman (external link), clarinet; musikFabrik (external link); Diego Masson (external link), conductor

Shona Brown Recital

Blüthner Piano Centre

19:00, Thursday 21 February 2008
Blüthner Piano Centre (external link)
1 Davies Street, Berkeley Square
W1K 3DB London
United Kingdom

A private recital given by Shona Brown, flute; Mark Knoop, piano; and Magnus Mehta, percussion.

Duruflé and Schumann

Kingston Choral Society

20:00, Saturday 8 March 2008
All Saints Church (external link)
Market Place
KT1 1JP Kingston-Upon-Thames
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop joins the Kingston Choral Society (external link), conducted by Martin Hall, for a performance of Robert Schumann´s part songs interspersed with piano solos from Bunte Blätter.

Music of Today: Iannis Xenakis

Philharmonia Orchestra

18:00, Thursday 13 March 2008
Royal Festival Hall (external link)
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

Portrait of Iannis Xenakis conducted by Diego Masson (external link) and presented by Julian Anderson (external link).

For all his training as an architect with Le Corbusier, burning intensity is the overriding emotion in Xenakis’s music. Nowhere is this more evident than in Anaktoria, inspired by the ecstatic love hymns of Sappho. Thalleïn does exactly what its Greek title says — it sprouts from initial bursts of sound in numerous unpredictable directions. Admission free.

Quartet

Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung

Thursday 27 March 2008
Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (external link)
Olbrichweg 15
64287 Darmstadt
Germany

Carl Rosman (external link), clarinet; Mark Knoop, piano; Eva Zöllner (external link), accordion; John Eckardt, contrabass; Wolfgang Lessing, cello

Music of Today: Tansy Davies

Philharmonia Orchestra

18:00, Thursday 17 April 2008
Royal Festival Hall (external link)
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

Portrait of Tansy Davies (external link) conducted by Peter Rundel and presented by Julian Anderson (external link).

Rational Rec

A night at the music hall

Spitalfields Festival

20:00, Saturday 7 June 2008
Wilton’s Music Hall (external link)
Graces Alley, off Ensign Street
E1 8JB London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) performs at a Rational Rec (external link)’s special take on the traditional Edwardian variety show.

Encounter Wilton’s Music Hall as you’ve never seen it before. Rational Rec brings its distinctive programme of music, performance and film to explore the spaces and histories of Wilton’s Music Hall. The evening includes music by Michael Finnissy (external link), Chris Newman, Diana Burrell (external link) and Trond Reinholdtsen (external link), performed by Plus-Minus (external link) and special guests; performances and interventions from The Vacuum Cleaner and Sheila Ghelani and a new work commissioned from performance art’s elder statesman Brian Catling.

Part of the 2008 Spitalfields Festival (external link).

Bachelor Party

nought to sixty

Institute of Contemporary Arts

19:00, Monday 28 July 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts (external link)
The Mall
SW1Y 5AH London
United Kingdom

An evening curated by Will Holder to celebrate the 121st birthday of Marcel Duchamp. Includes works by Peter Rose, Robert Ashley, Michael Hiltbrunner and more. In the Nash and Brandon Rooms at the ICA. More information here. (external link)

ELISION

ABC New Music Up Late

22:30, Saturday 9 August 2008
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

ELISION (external link) presents a concert for ABC radio’s New Music Up Late (external link). Featuring Carl Rosman (external link) and Richard Haynes (external link), clarinets; Mark Knoop, conductor.

Programme to include:

175 East

19:30, Friday 15 August 2008
National Library Theatre
Cnr Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Wellington
New Zealand

Mark Knoop returns to New Zealand for two concerts with 175 East (external link) conducted by Hamish McKeich (external link). The programme will include Michael Finnissy (external link)’s mammoth Piano Concerto No 3.

175 East

19:30, Saturday 16 August 2008
Raye Freedman Arts Centre (external link)
Silver Road, Epsom
Auckland
New Zealand

Mark Knoop returns to New Zealand for two concerts with 175 East (external link) conducted by Hamish McKeich (external link). The programme will include Michael Finnissy (external link)’s mammoth Piano Concerto No 3.

asamisimasa

ULTIMA Festival

Thursday 9 October 2008
Lindemansalen, Norges Musikkhøgskole (external link)
Slemdalsveien 11
0302 Oslo
Norway

asamisimasa (external link) presents a concert with Mark Knoop in the 2008 Ultima Festival (external link).

Plus-Minus

BMIC Cutting Edge 2008

19:30, Thursday 23 October 2008
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

At their Cutting Edge (external link) concert, Plus-Minus (external link) presents a programme that spans a stimulating musical range between melodious minimalism and conceptual noise music. New British music will be showcased by premieres from Laurence Crane and Matthew Shlomowitz (external link) and a welcome revival of Markus Trunk’s Raw Rows. By way of an overdue introduction to UK audiences, the programme will be completed by three pieces for instruments and tape from the Berlin-based composer Peter Ablinger (external link).

Libra Duo

BMIC Cutting Edge 2008

19:30, Thursday 6 November 2008
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

Acclaimed soloists in their own right, Mark Knoop and Carl Rosman (external link) also regularly perform at the heart of such new music groups as the Libra Ensemble (external link), ELISION (external link), Plus-Minus (external link) and musikFabrik (external link). For the last 16 years they have performed widely in Australia and Europe as a duo, rising to the most utopian demands of today’s composers for the combination of clarinet and piano. For the Cutting Edge (external link) they perform new works by Andrew Digby and Adam de la Cour (external link) as well as the UK première of Michael Finnissy (external link)’s Clarinet Sonata and Richard Barrett (external link)’s controversial Flechtwerk, composed for them in 2007.

asamisimasa duo

BMIC Cutting Edge 2008

19:00, Thursday 13 November 2008
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop joins the asamisimasa (external link) duo in their Cutting Edge (external link) concert for the première of a new work by Bryn Harrison (external link).

Plus-Minus: Bryn Harrison portrait

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

19:30, Sunday 23 November 2008
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

The quietly oscillating, hypnotic surfaces of Bryn Harrison (external link)’s music attempt to draw the listener into a delicate web of abstract patterns and near repetitions.

At once starkly simple, yet intricately complex, Harrison’s latest 40-minute piece is one of his most ambitious projects to date. Created almost as an abstract canvas, the piece draws on Harrison’s fascination with the passing of time, allowing the listener to become more and more absorbed in the texture of the music.

Plus-Minus (external link) is joined by guests from asamisimasa (external link) Anders Førisdal and Tanja Orning.

Sonderkonzert mit Howard Arman

Bühnen der Stadt Gera

14:30, Saturday 29 November 2008
Konzertsaal, Bühnen der Stadt Gera (external link)
Theaterplatz 1
07548 Gera
Germany

Mark Knoop performs Gershwin’s perennial favourite with conductor Howard Arman (external link) in an American-themed programme.

Kämmer Klang

20:30, Tuesday 2 December 2008
Charlie Wright’s International (external link)
45 Pitfield Street
N1 6DA London
United Kingdom

Kämmer Klang (external link) is a monthly series, curated by Lucy Railton (external link), exploring the boundaries of modern classical, electronic and improvised music, as well as performance and film. Programme to include: