Performances between 2016 and 2017

Fast Medium Swing

Conciertos de Música Contemporánea Fundación BBVA-Bilbao

19:30, Tuesday 2 February 2016
Fundación BBVA Bilbao (external link)
Plaza de San Nicolás, 4
Bilbao
Spain

Milton Babbitt Discovery

MOOT

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. With Newton Armstrong diffusing the tape part for both Philomel and Reflections.

Songbook

We Spoke

L’Auditori Sampler Series

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.

The Cold Trip

MaerzMusik

21:00, Sunday 13 March 2016
Haus der Berliner Festspiele (external link)
Schaperstraße 24
Wilmersdorf Berlin
Germany

Juliet Fraser 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.

Plus-Minus @ Maerz

MaerzMusik

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.

Above Earth’s Shadow

Kammer Klang

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.

Old Masters

We Spoke @ Le Bourg

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.

Canon

Music at Durham

12:15, Wednesday 27 April 2016
Durham University (external link)
Durham
United Kingdom

The Years of Prog

music@1pm

13:00, Monday 9 May 2016
Turner Sims (external link)
Salisbury Road
SO17 1BJ Southampton
United Kingdom

The Years of Prog

City University

19:00, Tuesday 10 May 2016
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Sextet

Gray’s Inn Concerts

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.

Groups

Music We’d Like To Hear

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.

Konserthuset

TOPublic

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, Huber, Ives, Lourie, Messiaen, Mossolov, Nancarrow, Poppe (external link), Radulescu, Scelsi, Schoenberg, Sciarrino (external link), Scriabin, Sorabji, Stockhausen (external link), Ustvolskaya, Webern, and Xenakis.

Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello

Café OTO

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

Upside Down

Ukho Ensemble

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).

Artificial Environments

Ukho Music

20:00, Sunday 2 October 2016
Plivka
Vasylkivska 1
Kiev
Ukraine

Lydbevegelsen

BIT20

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.

Repetitions

Sampler Series

20:30, Thursday 27 October 2016
L’Auditori: Oriol Martorell (external link)
Lepant 150
08013 Barcelona
Spain

Finnissy portrait

Transit

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.

Exterior/Interior

Decontamination #8

20:00, Tuesday 22 November 2016
Carole Nash Recital Room (external link)
RNCM
M13 9RD Manchester
United Kingdom

Palimpsests

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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 and Mark Knoop.