19:30, Tuesday 2 February 2016
Fundación BBVA Bilbao (external link)
Plaza de San Nicolás, 4
Bilbao
Spain
Matthew Shlomowitz | Fast Medium Swing | 200810 |
José M Sánchez-Verdú | Tres Caprichos | 2003/059 |
James Tenney | Critical Band | 1988/200017 |
Aldo Clementi | Madrigale | 19799 |
Bernhard Lang | DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X | 201320 |
19:30, Friday 12 February 2016
St Nicholas Church (external link)
Church St
BN1 3LJ Brighton
United Kingdom
Celebrating the music of pioneering American composer Milton Babbitt, the concert will also feature Philomel performed by soprano Juliet Fraser (external link). With Newton Armstrong diffusing the tape part for both Philomel and Reflections.
Milton Babbitt | Reflections | 197510 |
Newton Armstrong | Too Slow, for Milton | 20113 |
20:30, Wednesday 2 March 2016
Mercat de les Flors (external link)
Lleida, 59
08004 Barcelona
Spain
We Spoke collaborate with dancers Núria Giu and Manuel Rodriguez on a new realization of Polansky (external link)’s indeterminate work before a performance of Lang (external link)’s song cycle.
Larry Polansky | Ensembles of Note | 1998 |
Bernhard Lang | DW16 Songbook | 200435 |
21:00, Sunday 13 March 2016
Haus der Berliner Festspiele (external link)
Schaperstraße 24
Wilmersdorf Berlin
Germany
Juliet Fraser (external link) and Mark Knoop première Part 2 of Bernhard Lang (external link)’s reworking of Winterreise. The concert also includes Part 1 performed by Sarah Sun and the Aleph Gitarrenquartett.
Bernhard Lang | Monadologie XXXII The Cold Trip part 2 | 2014/15*30 |
19:30, Monday 14 March 2016
Haus der Berliner Festspiele (external link)
Schaperstraße 24
Wilmersdorf Berlin
Germany
Plus Minus presents three concerts over one evening at MaerzMusik.
Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environments Nos.1–5 | 2011§20 |
Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
Matthew Shlomowitz | Lecture about Bad Music | 2015§40 |
Simon Løffler | b | 201210 |
Johannes Kreidler | Charts Music | 2009, arr 20123 |
Natacha Diels | 2.5 Nightmares, for Jessie | 201410 |
Alexander Schubert | Sensate Focus | 201418 |
20:00, Tuesday 5 April 2016
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom
With Oscar Perks on violin and Mark Knoop conducting, the Perks Ensemble presents Finnissy’s masterwork. Also featuring autodidact electronic composer John Wall presenting his latest solo work, and Fresh Klang with Ruaidhri Mannion and Antoine Françoise.
Michael Finnissy | ...above earth’s shadow | 198518 |
20:30, Wednesday 13 April 2016
Le Bourg (external link)
Rue de Bourg 51
1003 Lausanne
Switzerland
Geneva duo Old Masters: Marius Schaffter and Jérôme Stünzi create, and destroy, a new performative lecture with We Spoke: Serge Vuille and Mark Knoop. Also Takasugi (external link)’s visceral bi-lingual performance duo.
Old Masters | Performative Lecture | 2016* |
Steven Kazuo Takasugi | Strange Autumn | 2003/0418 |
12:15, Wednesday 27 April 2016
Durham University (external link)
Durham
United Kingdom
Anton Webern | Variationen für Klavier opus 27 | 19365 |
Conlon Nancarrow | Canon C from Three Canons for Ursula | 19886 |
Claude Debussy | Prélude Book 1, IV | 19104 |
Salvatore Sciarrino | Sonata V per pianoforte | 199414 |
Claude Debussy | Prélude Book 1, V | 19103 |
13:00, Monday 9 May 2016
Turner Sims (external link)
Salisbury Road
SO17 1BJ Southampton
United Kingdom
Laurence Crane | Gli anni prog | 201415 |
Matthew Shlomowitz | Left, Right, Up, Down, Pogo | 20137 |
Conlon Nancarrow | Canon C from Three Canons for Ursula | 19886 |
Howard Skempton | Axis ’90 | 19902 |
Beat Furrer | presto | 19978 |
19:00, Tuesday 10 May 2016
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom
Laurence Crane | Gli anni prog | 201415 |
Howard Skempton | Axis ’90 | 19902 |
Franco Donatoni | Fili | 198212 |
Matthew Shlomowitz | Left, Right, Up, Down, Pogo | 20137 |
Conlon Nancarrow | Canon C from Three Canons for Ursula | 19886 |
Beat Furrer | presto | 19978 |
18:30, Tuesday 21 June 2016
Gray’s Inn Chapel (external link)
Gray’s Inn Road
WC1R 5ET London
United Kingdom
Chamber music for piano and winds with Angela Barnes, Daniel Parkin, Joost Bosdijk, Rosie Jenkins, and Vicky Wright.
Felix Mendelssohn | Konzertstück No 1 opus 113 | 18326 |
Francis Poulenc | Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano | 192613 |
Conlon Nancarrow | Canon C from Three Canons for Ursula | 19886 |
Francis Poulenc | Sextuor for piano & winds | 194518 |
19:30, Friday 1 July 2016
St Mary at Hill (external link)
Lovat Lane
EC3R 8EE London
United Kingdom
The Music We’d Like To Play Band: Aisha Orazbayeva, violin; Anton Lukoszevieze, cello; Ilze Ikse, flute; Kerry Yong, piano; Elsa Bradley, percussion; Adam Morris, percussion; Newton Armstrong, electronics; Mark Knoop, conductor and piano.
Newton Armstrong | The way to go out | 2016*12 |
Linda Catlin Smith | With Their Shadows Long | 199713 |
Bunita Marcus | Adam and Eve | 1987¶19 |
12:00, Monday 4 July 2016
Wednesday 6 July 2016
Universitetsplassen
Karl Johansgate 45
Oslo
Norway
Curated by Trond Reinholdtsen (external link), Ellen Ugelvik and Mark Knoop present a double piano recital to reinvent the genre.
Our museum is like a church, you must first have been a sinner to become saint. Only those who most radically have broken the law may be included in the archive. Here, two star pianists systematically break through the utopian, heroic modernist and esoteric piano canon of dead (or at least half-dead) composers. Including works by Bach, Cage (external link), Cowell, Feldman (external link), Huber, Ives, Lourie, Messiaen, Mossolov, Nancarrow, Poppe (external link), Radulescu, Scelsi, Schoenberg, Sciarrino (external link), Scriabin, Sorabji, Stockhausen (external link), Ustvolskaya, Webern, and Xenakis.
Trond Reinholdtsen | KONSERTHUSET | 2016240 |
20:00, Tuesday 13 September 2016
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom
Aisha Orazbayeva, violin; Bridget Carey, viola; Anton Lukoszevieze, cello; Mark Knoop, piano
Morton Feldman | Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello | 198775 |
20:00, Saturday 1 October 2016
Plivka
Vasylkivska 1
Kiev
Ukraine
The première of Cella (external link)’s work for piano and orchestra alongside music by Berio, Varèse, Ligeti and Christophe Bertrand. Conducted by Luigi Gaggero (external link).
Carmine Emanuele Cella | Upside-Down | 2004, rev 2016*9 |
20:00, Sunday 2 October 2016
Plivka
Vasylkivska 1
Kiev
Ukraine
Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-13#18 |
Steven Kazuo Takasugi | Die Klavierübung: movement 1 (version for piano and tape) | 2007-09/2014#11 |
Newton Armstrong | making one leaf transparent and then another | 2012#12 |
Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts 2 | 2010#25 |
17:00, Sunday 16 October 2016
Tårnsalen, KODE (external link)
Rasmus Mayers allé 9
5015 Bergen
Norway
Mark Knoop joins BIT20 (external link) conducted by Richard Baker for a performance of Michael Finnissy (external link)’s stunning 1979 work. Also “soundpainting” works with dance, by soundpainter Ricardo Gassent.
Michael Finnissy | Alongside | 197920 |
20:30, Thursday 27 October 2016
L’Auditori: Oriol Martorell (external link)
Lepant 150
08013 Barcelona
Spain
Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environments Nos.1–5 | 201120 |
Bryn Harrison | Repetitions in Extended Time | 200843 |
17:30, Sunday 30 October 2016
Leuven STUK (external link)
Naamsestraat 96
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium
Soprano Juliet Fraser and pianist Mark Knoop will perform the second of our two concerts devoted to Michael Finnissy. The central piece will be the premiere of his Andersen Liederkreis. With references to the Danish author Hans-Christian Andersen and to Robert Schumann’s two volumes entitled Liederkreis, this concert promises to be a typical ‘Finnissy trip’ filled with musical and cultural references.
Michael Finnissy | Song 1 | 19695 |
Michael Finnissy | Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) | 201233 |
Michael Finnissy | Andersen-Liederkreis | 2016*45 |
20:00, Tuesday 22 November 2016
Carole Nash Recital Room (external link)
RNCM
M13 9RD Manchester
United Kingdom
Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
Bryn Harrison | Receiving the Approaching Memory | 2011-1240 |
13:00, Sunday 27 November 2016
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Palimpsests is a new programme for voice and piano that re-imagines the song cycle: Bernhard Lang (external link) and Michael Finnissy (external link) explore concepts of collage and remembrance in new works written for Juliet Fraser (external link) and Mark Knoop.
Michael Finnissy | Andersen-Liederkreis | 2016¶45 |
Bernhard Lang | Monadologie XXXII The Cold Trip part 2 | 2014/15¶30 |