Performances between 2009 and 2010

Thousands of Bundled Straw

Libra Ensemble

Melbourne Recital Centre

22:30, Thursday 12 February 2009
Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre (external link)
Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt St
Southbank Melbourne Victoria
Australia

David Young is preoccupied with exploring the relationship between sound and image, employing intricate and often miniature formats in unconventional settings. The music has been variously described as “musical origami”, “an aural equivalent of seeing a world in a grain of sand”. This major song-cycle is inspired by an ancient myth of the Temple of the Healing Eyes in far-western Japan and features five eggs, 12 instrumentalists and soprano Deborah Kayser.

Libra Ensemble (external link), conducted by Mark Knoop, is proud to take part in the opening festival of the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Kämmer Klang

Southwark Playhouse

21:00, Saturday 14 March 2009
Southwark Playhouse (external link)
Cnr Tooley St & Bermondsey St
SE1 2TF London
United Kingdom

Kämmer Klang (external link) curates an evening at Southwark Playhouse featuring music and performance pieces by Matthew Shlomowitz (external link), Adam de la Cour (external link) and Mark Knoop and performances by Sasha Milavec Davies, Lucy Railton (external link), Michael Hooper and Richmond Stockwell.

BIT20 Ensemble

Borealis Festival

19:30, Wednesday 25 March 2009
Logen Teater (external link)
Øvre Ole Bulls plass 6
5012 Bergen
Norway

Mark Knoop & Michael Finnissy

Borealis Festival

13:00, Thursday 26 March 2009
Prøvesalen (external link)
Griegakademiet
Bergen
Norway

Mark Knoop is joined by Michael Finnissy (external link) in works for four hands and two pianos.

Shoes of Your Choice

Borealis Festival

22:00, Thursday 26 March 2009
Landmark (external link)
Bergen
Norway

A Dada-inspired evening featuring works by Robert Bozzi, Vinko Globakar, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Ken Friedman, Alison Knowles, Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen and Chris Newman. Performances by Alwynne Pritchard, Håkon Stene, Lene Grenager, Adam de la Cour (external link), Erik Gjerdevik, Michael Finnissy and InterInterInter (external link).

Tangarde

Borealis Festival

13:00, Saturday 28 March 2009
Sardinen USF Verftet (external link)
Georgernes Verft 12
Bergen
Norway

Avgarde is Bergen’s own club for brand new composed music. Here they offer their view on tango: Tango inspired pieces by local composers Ruth Bakke, Glenn-Erik Haugland, Ricardo Odriozola, Jostein Stalheim, Knut Vaage, and festival composer Michael Finnissy (external link). The music is to be performed by some of Bergens’s best musicians, and talented children from the school for culture. Dancers from the club Tango Abrazo, Mazen Kiwan and Maria Filalis, will also help heat things up.

Lachenmann workshop

Akademie Schloss Solitude

Monday 11 May 2009
Akademie Schloss Solitude (external link)
Solitude 3
70197 Stuttgart
Germany

Mark Knoop joins Séverine Ballon (external link), cello, and Carl Rosman (external link), clarinet, for two days of workshops and open rehearsals with Helmut Lachenmann for composition students at the Stuttgart Hochschule (external link).

Plus-Minus

Bath Spa University

19:30, Thursday 21 May 2009
Bath Spa University (external link)
Newton St Loe
BA2 9BN Bath
United Kingdom

Following a workshop with composition students, Plus-Minus (external link) presents a concert at Bath Spa University. Also to include works by student composers.

Kämmer Klang

20:00, Tuesday 26 May 2009
Charlie Wright’s International (external link)
45 Pitfield Street
N1 6DA London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop guest curates Kämmer Klang (external link) May with works exploring the nature of live collaboration. Featuring Vicky Wright, clarinet, Alex Waterman (external link), cello, and Newton Armstrong. Also introducing Gastro (external link): a new collaboration between Adam de la Cour (external link), Richmond Stockwell, and Mark Knoop.

Plus-Minus Residency

Institute of Contemporary Arts

19:00, Sunday 31 May 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts (external link)
The Mall
SW1Y 5AH London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) will be in residency at the ICA (external link) from 26-31 May as part of their Talk Show (external link) season, with open rehearsals and discussions daily, culminating in a concert on Sunday 31st.

The Transgressive Gospel

IXION

Spitalfields Festival

19:30, Friday 12 June 2009
Wilton’s Music Hall (external link)
Graces Alley, off Ensign Street
E1 8JB London
United Kingdom

The premiere of Finnissy (external link)’s telling of the Passion story features Kate Westbrook and Richard Jackson with IXION conducted by the composer. Book at the Spitalfields Festival website. (external link)

music we’d like to hear II

19:30, Wednesday 8 July 2009
St Anne & St Agnes
Gresham Street
EC2 7BX London
United Kingdom

Curated by Tim Parkinson, the second music we’d like to hear (external link) concert for 2009 features violinists Angharad Davies and Sara Hubrich with Mark Knoop performing a new work by Chris Newman for solo accordion.

Linari Classic Festival

20:00, Friday 7 August 2009
Pieve di Sant’Appiano (external link)
Barberino Val d’Elsa
Tuscany
Italy

For the closing night concert of the 2009 Linari Classic Festival (external link), Mark Knoop joins the festival’s Assistant Musical Director Vicky Wright (clarinet) together with Daniel Parkin (flute), Benjamin Hudson (bassoon) and Naomi Atherton (horn).

Kämmer Klang

20:00, Tuesday 1 September 2009
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Lucy Railton (external link)’s Kämmer Klang (external link) returns to Cafe OTO featuring performances by cult pop experimenter Simon Bookish. Also Carla Rees (flute) performs Luciano Berio’s Sequenza I and Robert Ames performs Tristan Brookes’ Threads for amplified viola and seven loudspeakers.

Artlab²

Letter Pieces

BRXLBRAVO

19:00, Friday 2 October 2009
Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne (external link)
Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne
1000 Brussels
Belgium

A temporary artistic hub was recently opened at Zennestraat 17, former lab of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. During BRXLBRAVO (external link), a cross-over of contemporary work from all disciplines will be presented. Several workspaces will join forces with the resident organizations in the bid to infect it with more experimental art.

Mark Knoop will join Shila Anakari, Tomma Wessel, Tom Pauwels and David Helbich to present Letter Pieces—an ongoing series of duos for visual performer and musician by Matthew Shlomowitz (external link).

Plus-Minus

Institute of Contemporary Arts

19:00, Wednesday 18 November 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts (external link)
The Mall
SW1Y 5AH London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) and Kämmer Klang (external link) co-present an event featuring composer Trond Reinholdtsen (external link) and visual artist James Beckett (external link), in a night featuring motorcross trophies, travel sounds, rabbits, power point presentations and microtonal music. Tickets go on sale October 8 from the ICA (external link).

Ensemble Exposé

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival / The Cutting Edge 2009

15:00, Saturday 21 November 2009
19:00, Thursday 26 November 2009
Bates Mill (external link)
Milford Street
HD1 2DX Huddersfield
United Kingdom

Challenging traditional music boundaries and rethinking relationships between soloist/ensemble, improvisation/notation and electronics/acoustic instruments, experimental and virtuosic oboist Christopher Redgate and Ensemble Exposé (external link) reveal startling new works by David Gorton (external link), Paul Archbold and Roger Redgate.

Saturday 21 November in Huddersfield, repeated Thursday 26 November at the Warehouse, London.