Performances between 1993 and 2017

Brenton Broadstock Retrospective

Libra Ensemble

Sunday 17 October 1993
Port Fairy Spring Festival (external link)
Port Fairy Victoria
Australia

Brenton Broadstock Aureole 3 1984
Brenton Broadstock In Chains 1990
Brenton Broadstock Aureole 2 1983
Brenton Broadstock ...All that is solid melts into air... 1991*

Sudden Death

Libra Ensemble

Sunday 25 September 1994
Melba Hall (external link)
University of Melbourne
Royal Parade Parkville Victoria
Australia

Brian Ferneyhough Superscriptio 1981
Brian Ferneyhough Kurze Schatten II 1989
Brian Ferneyhough Time and Motion Study I 1971-779
Brian Ferneyhough Mort Subite 1991
Adam Yee shiru l’adonai shir Hadash 19945
Ian Shanahan 3 études for solo recorder 1988/90/91
Newton Armstrong so large and smooth and round says Wilhelmine 1994
Chris Dench heterotic strings 1993

what remains?

Libra Ensemble

Friday 22 September 1995
St Johns Church (external link)
City Road, Southgate
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Benjamin Marks “...á l’abime béant.“ 1995*6
Anton Webern Quartett opus 22 1928-19307
David Young otturato 1992
Anton Webern Variationen für Klavier opus 27 19365
Michael Finnissy Various Nations 199212
Richard David Hames Zurna 1982
Richard Barrett what remains 1990-919

Line of Site

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 24 October 1996
Gallery 101 (external link)
101 Collins St
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Adam Yee sefirot 19952
James Anderson Metal Fatigue/Gestalt-Equilibria 1996*5
David Young ninazu 1992
Benjamin Marks “...á l’abime béant.“ 19956
Newton Armstrong site 1995*
Adam Yee reshit HoHma yir’at adonai 1995*11

The Reflective Space

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 7 November 1996
Sunday 10 November 1996
Lonsdale St Power Station
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Luigi Nono .....sofferte onde serene... 197614
Luigi Nono La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura 1988-89
Karlheinz Stockhausen Spiral 1968
Josh Levine Downstream 1991-92
George Crumb Vox Balanæ 197120
Martin Wesley-Smith For Clarinet and Tape 1983

In Flagranti

Libra Ensemble

Sunday 19 January 1997
St Kilda Town Hall (external link)
Carlisle St
St Kilda Victoria
Australia

Gabriele Manca In Flagranti 1990
Josh Levine Reprise 1996
Giacinto Scelsi Tre pezzi per trombone solo 1956
Giacinto Scelsi Suite no 9 ”Ttai” 195335

Various Nations

Libra Ensemble

Sunday 16 February 1997
South Melbourne Town Hall
210 Bank St
South Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Michael Finnissy Various Nations 199212
Michael Finnissy WAM 1990-9112
Michael Finnissy Kemp’s Morris 1978
Michael Finnissy Runnin’ Wild 1978
Michael Finnissy “n“ for ensemble 1969/72
Michael Finnissy Two Motets 1991

Recital

20:00, Thursday 24 July 1997
Assembly Hall
156 Collins St
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

A cataclysmic vision of the destruction of Sodom (in two and a half minutes) then via a twentieth century guru to the death-obsessed Schubert. Avuncular Bach looks on ... (in anguish)?

Johann Sebastian Bach Französische Ouverture BWV 831 1735
Adam Yee Lot 19952
Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstück XI Nr 7 195614
Franz Schubert Piano Sonata A major D959 1828

Eighth Sydney Spring Festival

Libra Ensemble

Friday 5 September 1997
Eugene Goossens Hall (external link)
ABC Ultimo Centre
700 Harris St Sydney New South Wales
Australia

Igor Stravinsky Four Russian Songs 1923/54
Igor Stravinsky Epitaphium 1959
James Dillon Redemption 199512
Anton Webern Drei Lieder opus 18 1925
Benjamin Marks “...á l’abime béant.“ 19956
Brian Ferneyhough Kurze Schatten II 1989
Arnold Schoenberg Herzgewächse opus 20 19114
Adam Yee reshit HoHma yir’at adonai 199511

Plastic

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 26 February 1998
Storey Hall (external link)
RMIT Building 16
342 Swanston St Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Jo Kondo Standing 1973
Keiko Harada Sonora Distancia 1996
Toru Takemitsu Quatrain II 1975/7715
Tatsuya Kawasoi Arrow-Cycle I 1997
David Young thousands of bundled straw iv 1998*
David Young thousands of bundled straw v 1998*
David Young thousands of bundled straw vi 1998*

Pierrot

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 30 July 1998
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire opus 21 191236
Pierre Boulez Le Marteau sans maître 1954/57

Dogfight

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 10 September 1998
Assembly Hall
156 Collins St
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Newton Armstrong site 1995
Percy Aldridge Grainger Room music Tit-bits No. 7: Arrival Platform Humlet 1908-12
Percy Aldridge Grainger To A Nordic Princess: Bridal Song 1928
Percy Aldridge Grainger Shepherd’s Hey: English Morris Dance Tune 1908-13
Adam Yee amar naval b’libo 1997-98*
Matthew Shlomowitz I Wept as I lay Dreaming 1998*
Percy Aldridge Grainger Free music No. 1 Three Versions (edited by Alan Stout) 1935-37
Percy Aldridge Grainger Random Round 1912-14

"n"

Libra Ensemble

Sunday 7 March 1999
The Studio (external link)
Sydney Opera House
Sydney New South Wales
Australia

Alban Berg Adagio aus dem Kammerkonzert 192510
Adam Yee shiru l’adonai shir Hadash 19945
Benjamin Marks La Chute 1998*10
David Young Eight songs from ”thousands of bundled straw” 1998
Michael Finnissy “n“ for ensemble 1969/72
Charles Ives Largo 19015

Blurred Visions

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 6 May 1999
Trades Hall (external link)
cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts
Carlton Victoria
Australia

George Crumb Songs Drones and Refrains of Death 1968
Richard Barrett Another heavenly day 1989-907

"n"

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 29 July 1999
Monash University (external link)
Wellington Rd
Clayton Victoria
Australia

Alban Berg Adagio aus dem Kammerkonzert 192510
Adam Yee shiru l’adonai shir Hadash 19945
Benjamin Marks La Chute 199810
David Young Eight songs from ”thousands of bundled straw” 1998
Michael Finnissy “n“ for ensemble 1969/72
Charles Ives Largo 19015

"n"

Libra Ensemble

Sunday 1 August 1999
Lowland Farm (external link)
70 Brougham Rd
Mt Macedon Victoria
Australia

Alban Berg Adagio aus dem Kammerkonzert 192510
Adam Yee shiru l’adonai shir Hadash 19945
Benjamin Marks La Chute 199810
David Young Eight songs from ”thousands of bundled straw” 1998
Michael Finnissy “n“ for ensemble 1969/72
Charles Ives Largo 19015
Horatiu Radulescu subconscious wave 1989*

Icarus Falling

Libra Ensemble

Tuesday 31 August 1999
Collins St Baptist Church (external link)
174 Collins St
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Arnold Schoenberg Serenade opus 24 1923
Chris Dench asymptotic freedom 1998-99*
Brian Ferneyhough La Chute d’Icare 1988
Mauricio Kagel Schattenklange 1995

Once Upon a Time

Libra Ensemble

Friday 26 May 2000
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

James Dillon ...Once Upon a Time 19809
Toru Takemitsu Quatrain II 1975/7715
Edgard Varèse Octandre 19237
Olivier Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps 1941

A new song

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 1 June 2000
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Adam Yee shiru l’adonai shir Hadash 19945
Damien Ricketson Bucolica 1998
Adam Yee amar naval b’libo 1997-98
Benjamin Marks Lovely Amaryllis 2000*6
Chris Dench heterotic strings 1993
David Young thousands of bundled straw iii 1997
David Young thousands of bundled straw v 1998
David Young thousands of bundled straw vi 1998

The heart's algorithms

Music for clarinet and piano

Libra Ensemble

Thursday 6 July 2000
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Darius Milhaud Sonatine 1927
Alban Berg Vier Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier opus 5 19138
Chris Dench the heart’s algorithms [more info...] 1993/1999/2002*15
Peter Maxwell Davies Hymnos 196712
Pierre Boulez Premiere Sonate 19469
Mauricio Kagel Unguis incarnatus est 19726
Richard Barrett interference 1996-20008
Michael Finnissy Recent Britain 1997-9825

Libra

Libra Ensemble

Saturday 8 July 2000
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge 1955-56
Roberto Gerhard Libra 196815
Hans Werner Henze Kammermusik 1958 1958/6351

The Great Virtuoso Slugfest

Concerten Tot en Met

20:30, Sunday 25 February 2001
Posthoornkerk
Haarlemmerstraat 126
1013 EX Amsterdam
Netherlands

A concert featuring Mark Knoop (piano), Carl Rosman (clarinet) and Helen Bledsoe (flute)

Brian Ferneyhough Time and Motion Study I 1971-779
Richard Barrett knospend-gespaltener 1992-938
Richard Barrett CHARON 199510
Richard Barrett interference 1996-20008
Benjamin Marks La Chute 199810
Samuel Vriezen Toccata I 2000
Michael Finnissy WAM 1990-9112

Rhapsody In Motion

Melbourne Composers' League

20:00, Friday 6 April 2001
20:00, Saturday 7 April 2001
South Melbourne Town Hall
210 Bank St
South Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Rhapsody In Motion combined text, visual art, contemporary classical music and Aboriginal dance as it explored Australia's Federation. It was based on new works created especially for Rhapsody In Motion by poet Lisa Bellear, visual artists Sue Callanan and Heidi Knoepfli and composers Eve Duncan, Joseph Giovinazzo and Peter Myers.

Musical director and conductor: Mark Knoop
with nine soloists and a string ensemble from the Australian National Academy of Music

Eve Duncan Tiger Snake and Runner of Light 2001*
Peter Myers Sacred Land 2001*
Joseph Giovinazzo Pictures from Home 2001*

Music & Poetry

Music & Poetry

Saturday 12 May 2001
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

A series of concerts exploring the links between music and poetry featuring Meredith Schilling (mezzosoprano), Tyrone Landau (tenor), Mark Knoop (piano, conductor) and Peter Porter (poet).

Franz Schubert Gotter Griechenlands D677 1819
Franz Schubert Wanderers Nachtlied D768 1822
Franz Schubert Mignon II - So lasst mich scheinen D727 1821
Franz Schubert Der Zwerg D771 1822
Hugo Wolf Bei Einer Trauung 1888
Hugo Wolf Ein altes bild 1888
Hugo Wolf Wir haben beide lange 1891
Hugo Wolf Mausfallen-spruchlein 1882
Luciano Berio Chamber Music 1953
Arnold Schoenberg No 12 from «Das Buch der hängenden Gärten» opus 15 1908-094
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata ”The Cat’s Fugue”
Igor Stravinsky The Owl and the Pussycat 1966
Igor Stravinsky Shakespeare Songs 1953
Igor Stravinsky Epitaphium 1959
Benjamin Britten Hölderlin Fragments 1958
Benjamin Britten Winter Words 1953
Benjamin Britten Canticle V 1974
Nicholas Maw The Voice of Love 1968
Nicholas Maw Roman Canticle 1990

Music & Poetry

Music & Poetry

Sunday 20 May 2001
The National Library (external link)
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT
Australia

A series of concerts exploring the links between music and poetry featuring Meredith Schilling (mezzosoprano), Tyrone Landau (tenor), Mark Knoop (piano, conductor) and Peter Porter (poet).

Franz Schubert Gotter Griechenlands D677 1819
Franz Schubert Wanderers Nachtlied D768 1822
Franz Schubert Mignon II - So lasst mich scheinen D727 1821
Franz Schubert Der Zwerg D771 1822
Hugo Wolf Bei Einer Trauung 1888
Hugo Wolf Ein altes bild 1888
Hugo Wolf Wir haben beide lange 1891
Hugo Wolf Mausfallen-spruchlein 1882
Luciano Berio Chamber Music 1953
Arnold Schoenberg No 12 from «Das Buch der hängenden Gärten» opus 15 1908-094
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata ”The Cat’s Fugue”
Igor Stravinsky The Owl and the Pussycat 1966
Igor Stravinsky Shakespeare Songs 1953
Igor Stravinsky Epitaphium 1959
Benjamin Britten Hölderlin Fragments 1958
Benjamin Britten Winter Words 1953
Benjamin Britten Canticle V 1974
Nicholas Maw The Voice of Love 1968
Nicholas Maw Roman Canticle 1990

The Heart's Algorithms

BMIC

19:30, Thursday 28 June 2001
British Music Information Centre
10 Stratford Place
W1C 1BA London
United Kingdom

A concert of recent British and Australian music for solo piano.

Benjamin Marks La Chute 199810
Chris Dench ik(s)lands fragment [more info...] 1997/1998*2
Richard Barrett Tract 1984-9625
Chris Dench the heart’s algorithms [more info...] 1993/1999/200215
Adam Yee Lot 19952
Michael Finnissy Yvaroperas 1 and 2 1994

Season 2001

Libra Ensemble

Monday 13 August 2001
Tuesday 28 August 2001
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Full details of Libra's 2001 season can be found here.

Season highlights included:

Iannis Xenakis Dikhthas 197914
Jason Eckardt Tongues 2001*
Richard Barrett Tract 1984-9625
Helmut Lachenmann Guero 1970/88
Helmut Lachenmann Allegro sostenuto 1986-8835
Peter Maxwell Davies Ave maris stella 197529
Arnold Schoenberg Suite opus 29 1924-2632
Adam Yee Lot 19952
Alban Berg Kammerkonzert 1924-2536

Open rehearsal 1: tongues

Libra Ensemble

14:00, Monday 13 August 2001
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Jason Eckardt Tongues 2001

tongues

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Tuesday 14 August 2001
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Chris Dench eigenmomenta 2000-01*
Liza Lim INGUZ (fertility) 1996
Richard Barrett CHARON 199510
Richard Barrett what remains 1990-919
Iannis Xenakis Dikhthas 197914
Jason Eckardt Tongues 2001*

tract

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Saturday 18 August 2001
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Chris Dench Closing Lemma 1992
Toru Takemitsu Folios 1974
Paul Rhys Four Pieces 1998-99
Richard Barrett Tract 1984-9625
Helmut Lachenmann Guero 1970/88
Helmut Lachenmann Dal niente (Intérieur III) 1970
Helmut Lachenmann Pression 1969
Helmut Lachenmann Allegro sostenuto 1986-8835
None Improvisation: Newton Armstrong, Tim O’Dwyer

the heart's ear

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Thursday 23 August 2001
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Dominik Karski Matter of Perspective 2000*18
Liza Lim The heart’s ear 1997
David Young thousands of bundled straw i 2000*
Peter Maxwell Davies Ave maris stella 197529
Arnold Schoenberg Suite opus 29 1924-2632

Open rehearsal 2: kammerkonzert

Libra Ensemble

19:00, Sunday 26 August 2001
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Alban Berg Kammerkonzert 1924-2536

noonday's white skull-moon

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Tuesday 28 August 2001
North Melbourne Town Hall
North Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Adam Yee reshit HoHma yir’at adonai 199511
Adam Yee Lot 19952
Matthew Shlomowitz Thought Rhythms 1999
Adam Yee Aria I (from Cannibal Pearce) 2000*
Adam Yee noonday’s white skull-moon 19991
Alban Berg Kammerkonzert 1924-2536

Commonwealth Sinfonietta

Commonwealth Sinfonietta

19:30, Thursday 20 September 2001
Lemon Tree Theatre (external link)
5 West North St
AB24 5AT Aberdeen
United Kingdom

The Commonwealth Sinfonietta is directed by Lewis Mitchell (flute).

Malcolm Williamson Serenade 1967
Peter Sculthorpe Irkanda IV 1961
Marc Yeats Only the Trees will Whisper in the Dark 2001*
Elena Kats-Chernin Wedding Suite 1996
Brett Dean Intimate Decisions
Dmitri Shostakovich Four Waltzes

Federation Music Week

Melbourne Composers' League

Thursday 27 September 2001
Sunday 30 September 2001
Melba Hall (external link)
University of Melbourne
Royal Parade Parkville Victoria
Australia

In September 2001, the Melbourne Composers' League presented a festival of international contemporary music by members of the Asian Composers League, performed by Australia's premier musicians.
Full details can be found here.

Works performed by Mark Knoop included:

Brian Chatpo Koo The Picture of Li-Po Reciting Poetry 9
Haydn Reeder Strong Song & Display
Tsukamono Nocturne
Dominik Karski Matter of Perspective 200018
Peter Myers Incantation 2000
Fujiwara Metamorphosis IV
Ramon Santos Tang Gong Gong An
Ari Ben-Shebetai Bells: A Prayer for Peace

Commonwealth Sinfonietta

Commonwealth Sinfonietta

19:00, Thursday 4 October 2001
St James’ Church
197 Piccadilly
W1J 9LL London
United Kingdom

Malcolm Williamson Serenade 1967
Peter Sculthorpe Irkanda IV 1961
Marc Yeats Only the Trees will Whisper in the Dark 2001

Beethoven to Martinu

Knoop-Waldock Duo

St Botolph's Church

19:30, Saturday 23 February 2002
St Botolph’s Church
Aldgate
EC3N 1AB London
United Kingdom

Claude Debussy Sonata for Cello and Piano D minor 1915
Karol Szymanowski Roxana’s Lied aus ”Krol Roger” 1918-24
Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke opus 73 1849
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 3 A major opus 69 1808
Bohuslav Martinu Variations on a Slovak Folksong H. 378 1959

Beethoven to Martinu

Knoop-Waldock Duo

Anlaby School

19:30, Monday 25 February 2002
Anlaby School
East Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Claude Debussy Sonata for Cello and Piano D minor 1915
Karol Szymanowski Roxana’s Lied aus ”Krol Roger” 1918-24
Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke opus 73 1849
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 3 A major opus 69 1808
Bohuslav Martinu Variations on a Slovak Folksong H. 378 1959

Coruscations

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Sunday 28 April 2002
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

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Chris Dench beyond status geometry 1994-9521
Richard Meale Coruscations 19719
Elliott Carter Brass Quintet 1974/93
Adam Yee lev nishbar v’nidkeh 1997
Elliott Carter Clarinet Concerto 199620

April/May 2002

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Sunday 28 April 2002
20:00, Monday 6 May 2002
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Libra's first two concerts for the year featured the Australian premiere of Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto with Carl Rosman (clarinet) and Mark Knoop (conductor).

Full details of Libra's 2002 season can be found here.

Highlights included:

Richard Meale Coruscations 19719
Elliott Carter Clarinet Concerto 199620
Chris Dench light-strung sigils 200216
Richard Barrett Trawl 1995-9710
Richard Meale Incredible Floridas 197133

light-strung sigils

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Monday 6 May 2002
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

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Chris Dench light-strung sigils 200216
Damien Ricketson Imagining Le Verrier 2001
Richard Barrett Trawl 1995-9710
Liza Lim Veil 199910
Richard Meale Incredible Floridas 197133

Spectral Guises

Ensemble Offspring

19:30, Thursday 16 May 2002
Paddington Uniting Church (external link)
395 Oxford St
Sydney New South Wales
Australia

Tristan Murail Treize Couleurs du Soleil Couchant 198715
James Dillon Diffraction 19843
Johannes Fritsch Sul B 1972
Simone East Ex Stasis 2002*
Horatiu Radulescu Piano Sonata No 2 “being and non-being create each other” opus 82 199110
Gerard Grisey Talea 198615

Beethoven to Webern

Knoop-Waldock Duo

Knoop-Waldock Duo

20:00, Saturday 25 May 2002
St John’s Church
Wakefield
United Kingdom

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 4 C major opus 102/1 1815
Anton Webern Sonata for Cello and Piano 19143
Sergei Prokofiev Sonata for Cello and Piano C major opus 119 1949
Anton Webern Drei Kleine Stücke opus 11 19142
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 5 D minor opus 102/2 1815

Rio Grande

Kingston Choral Society

19:30, Saturday 8 June 2002
All Saints Church (external link)
Market Place
KT1 1JP Kingston-Upon-Thames
United Kingdom

A concert with the Thames Sinfonia with Mark Knoop (piano) and Robin Page (conductor).

Constant Lambert Rio Grande for piano, chorus and orchestra 1927

Third Roaring Hoofs International Festival

Libra Ensemble

Sunday 9 June 2002
Saturday 15 June 2002
Ulaanbaatar and the North Gobi Desert
Mongolia

In June 2002 four members of Libra travelled to Mongolia to participate in the Third Roaring Hoofs International Festival of New Music. Elizabeth Barcan (flute), Elizabeth Sellars (violin), Geoffrey Gartner (cello) and Mark Knoop (piano, co-artistic director) performed in Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, as well as in various open-air venues in the North Gobi Desert.

Richard Barrett The light gleams an instant (from Tract) 1984-963
Chris Dench Closing Lemma 1992
Nigel Butterly Evanston Song 1978
Iannis Xenakis Dikhthas 197914
Peter Sculthorpe Requiem 1979
Kaija Saariaho Cendres 1974/93

Three Little Pieces

Knoop-Waldock Duo

St Botolph's Church

13:00, Friday 19 July 2002
St Botolph’s Church
Aldgate
EC3N 1AB London
United Kingdom

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 4 C major opus 102/1 1815
Anton Webern Drei Kleine Stücke opus 11 19142
Sergei Prokofiev Sonata for Cello and Piano C major opus 119 1949

Etched bright with sunlight

Libra Ensemble

13:00, Sunday 18 August 2002
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Mark Knoop presented the Australian premiere of English composer Michael Finnissy's monolithic piano solo The History of Photography in Sound.

In this five and a half hour work Finnissy explores the relationship between two modern art forms - photography and cinema and their influence on contemporary music composition.

The History of Photography in Sound was divided into three concerts over the course of the afternoon with two breaks for refreshments and dinner.

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Michael Finnissy The History of Photography in Sound [more info...] 1997-2000330

Fleshold

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Sunday 25 August 2002
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

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Luciano Berio Sequenza X 1984
Matthew Bieniek Fleshold: at the crossing over 2000
Chris Dench ’atsiluth/shîn 199115
Pierre Boulez Sonatine 194612
György Ligeti Horn Trio 198222
Johannes Brahms Horn Trio E flat major opus 40 186529

what remains?

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Saturday 31 August 2002
Peter Platt Auditorium (external link)
Maze Cres, behind Seymour Centre
University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales
Australia

Libra Ensemble's Mark Knoop and Carl Rosman joined Ensemble Offspring's Kathleen Gallagher in an eclectic programme: moving from Michael Smetanin at his most endearingly insistent to Richard Barrett at his most steely and uncompromising.

Michael Smetanin Spray 19906
James Dillon Sgothan 198411
Elliott Carter Esprit rude/esprit doux 19845
Michael Finnissy Alkan - Paganini 199712
Chris Dench ’atsiluth/shîn 199115
Luciano Berio Sequenza IXc 1980, rev 1998
Maurizio Pisati Å 1993
Richard Barrett what remains 1990-919

Beethoven to Henze

Knoop-Waldock Duo

Christine Flint Music Education Trust

19:30, Tuesday 17 September 2002
Toll Gavel Uniting Church
Beverley
United Kingdom

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 5 D minor opus 102/2 1815
Dmitri Shostakovich Sonata for Cello and Piano d minor opus 40 1934
Hans Werner Henze Serenade 1949
Frédéric Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu opus 66
Olivier Messiaen Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus 1940
Richard Strauss Sonata for Cello and Piano F major opus 6 1880-8326

Beethoven to Henze

Knoop-Waldock Duo

St Botolph's Church

13:00, Friday 20 September 2002
St Botolph’s Church
Aldgate
EC3N 1AB London
United Kingdom

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 5 D minor opus 102/2 1815
Dmitri Shostakovich Sonata for Cello and Piano d minor opus 40 1934
Hans Werner Henze Serenade 1949
Frédéric Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu opus 66
Olivier Messiaen Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus 1940
Richard Strauss Sonata for Cello and Piano F major opus 6 1880-8326

Beethoven to Henze

Knoop-Waldock Duo

The Old Vicarage

19:30, Saturday 21 September 2002
The Old Vicarage
Husthwaite
United Kingdom

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 5 D minor opus 102/2 1815
Dmitri Shostakovich Sonata for Cello and Piano d minor opus 40 1934
Hans Werner Henze Serenade 1949
Frédéric Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu opus 66
Olivier Messiaen Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus 1940
Richard Strauss Sonata for Cello and Piano F major opus 6 1880-8326

Piano Trios

Knoop-Waldock Duo

St Anne & St Agnes Lunchtime Concerts

13:10, Monday 4 November 2002
St Anne & St Agnes
Gresham Street
EC2 7BX London
United Kingdom

The Knoop-Waldock Duo was joined by violinist Deborah White in two piano trios.

Johannes Brahms Piano Trio b minor opus 8 185433
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2 opus 67 1944

Neues Großbritannien

Libra Duo

Akademie Schloss Solitude

19:00, Sunday 15 December 2002
Akademie Schloss Solitude (external link)
Solitude 3
70197 Stuttgart
Germany

Darius Milhaud Sonatine 1927
Richard Barrett CHARON 199510
Michael Finnissy Alkan - Paganini 1997§12
Mauricio Kagel Unguis incarnatus est 19726
Peter Maxwell Davies Hymnos 196712
Michael Finnissy Recent Britain 1997-98§25

Lewis Mitchell & Mark Knoop

Australian Resonances Festival

13:00, Sunday 19 January 2003
Studio Theatre
Royal Northern College of Music
Manchester
United Kingdom

This concert highlighting the music of Richard Meale featured Lewis Mitchell (flute) and Mark Knoop (piano) and took place during the RNCM's Australian Resonances Festival.

Kim Bowman Eoos 199114
Richard Meale Coruscations 19719
Richard Meale Melisande 1996
Richard Meale Sonata for Flute and Piano 1960

Convergence

Convergence

18:30, Tuesday 21 January 2003
University Women’s Club
London
United Kingdom

The début season of this ensemble including Philippa Mo (violin), Christina Waldock (cello), David Gresham (clarinet) and Mark Knoop (piano).

Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke opus 73 1849
Johannes Brahms Piano Trio c minor opus 101 188621
Toru Takemitsu Quatrain II 1975/7715
Claude Debussy Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano 19108
Ignaz Moscheles Fantasy, Variations & Finale opus 46

Convergence

Convergence

13:10, Friday 24 January 2003
St Giles-in-the-Fields
60 St Giles High St
WC2H 8LG London
United Kingdom

The début season of this ensemble including Philippa Mo (violin), Christina Waldock (cello), David Gresham (clarinet) and Mark Knoop (piano).

Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke opus 73 1849
Johannes Brahms Piano Trio c minor opus 101 188621
Toru Takemitsu Quatrain II 1975/7715
Claude Debussy Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano 19108
Ignaz Moscheles Fantasy, Variations & Finale opus 46

Convergence

Convergence

19:30, Saturday 25 January 2003
St Mary’s
Perivale
London
United Kingdom

The début season of this ensemble including Philippa Mo (violin), Christina Waldock (cello), David Gresham (clarinet) and Mark Knoop (piano).

Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke opus 73 1849
Johannes Brahms Piano Trio c minor opus 101 188621
Toru Takemitsu Quatrain II 1975/7715
Claude Debussy Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano 19108
Ignaz Moscheles Fantasy, Variations & Finale opus 46

what remains?

Libra Ensemble

20:30, Thursday 6 February 2003
Het Bethaniënklooster (external link)
Barndesteeg 6B
1012 BV Amsterdam
Netherlands

Michael Smetanin Spray 19906
Maurizio Pisati Å 1993°
Michael Finnissy Alkan - Paganini 1997°12
Chris Dench ’atsiluth/shîn 1991°15
James Dillon Sgothan 198411
Guus Janssen Sprezzatura 1984
Chris Dench Closing Lemma 1992°
Richard Barrett what remains 1990-91°9

what remains?

Libra Ensemble

19:30, Friday 14 February 2003
St Cyprian’s Church
Glentworth Street
NW1 6AX London
United Kingdom

Download programme for this concert (PDF Document)

Chris Dench ’atsiluth/shîn 199115
James Dillon Sgothan 198411
Michael Finnissy Alkan - Paganini 199712
James Erber Traces (B) 1997-98
Chris Dench Closing Lemma 1992
Chris Dench mem(e) [more info...] 1997/20035
Maurizio Pisati Å 1993
Richard Emsley Still/s 22 2002*5
Richard Barrett what remains 1990-919

what remains?

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Tuesday 18 February 2003
Akademie Schloss Solitude (external link)
Solitude 3
70197 Stuttgart
Germany

James Dillon Sgothan 198411
Enno Poppe Thema mit 840 Variationen 1993/977
Maurizio Pisati Å 1993
Chris Dench ’atsiluth/shîn 1991§15
Richard Barrett knospend-gespaltener 1992-938
Chris Dench Closing Lemma 1992§
Paul Obermayer coil 2001§5
Richard Barrett what remains 1990-919

Metamorphosis

Knoop-Waldock Duo

Knoop-Waldock Duo

19:00, Saturday 22 February 2003
St Mary’s Church
Stafford
United Kingdom

Benjamin Britten Sonata for Cello and Piano C major opus 65 1960-61
Witold Lutoslawski Grave, Metamorphosis 1981
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 3 A major opus 69 1808
Percy Aldridge Grainger Air et Finale sur des Danses norvégiennes
Johannes Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano No 1 e minor opus 38 186522

Metamorphosis

Knoop-Waldock Duo

St Anne & St Agnes Lunchtime Concerts

13:10, Wednesday 12 March 2003
St Anne & St Agnes
Gresham Street
EC2 7BX London
United Kingdom

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 3 A major opus 69 1808
Witold Lutoslawski Grave, Metamorphosis 1981
Benjamin Britten Sonata for Cello and Piano C major opus 65 1960-61
Johannes Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano No 1 e minor opus 38 186522

Beethoven & Britten

Knoop-Waldock Duo

St Anne & St Agnes Lunchtime Concerts

13:10, Tuesday 13 May 2003
St Anne & St Agnes
Gresham Street
EC2 7BX London
United Kingdom

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 3 A major opus 69 1808
Benjamin Britten Sonata for Cello and Piano C major opus 65 1960-61

Pohádka

Knoop-Waldock Duo

St Anne & St Agnes Lunchtime Concerts

13:10, Monday 16 June 2003
St Anne & St Agnes
Gresham Street
EC2 7BX London
United Kingdom

Leos Janácek Pohádka 1910, rev 1923
Johannes Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano No 2 F major opus 99 188628

Rihm Klavierstücke

Modern Britain

19:30, Friday 11 July 2003
Great Hall, King’s College London
Strand
WC2R 2LS London
United Kingdom

Ian Pace presented the first complete performance of Wolfgang Rihm's Klavierstücke with Mark Knoop in number 3, for piano duet.

Ian Pace's website.

Wolfgang Rihm Klavierstück Nr 3 opus 8c 1971

Ensemble Offspring

Ensemble Offspring

19:30, Friday 19 September 2003
St Giles-in-the-Fields
60 St Giles High St
WC2H 8LG London
United Kingdom

A performance with the Sydney-based Ensemble Offspring prior to attending the 2003 Warsaw Autumn festival.

Pawel Szymanski Two Illusory Constructions 198413
Michael Finnissy Banumbirr 19829
Elena Kats-Chernin Gypsy Ramble 1996
Michael Smetanin Spray 19906
Kaija Saariaho Cendres 1974/93
Dominik Karski Streams of Consciousness (Part I) 2000

Ensemble Offspring

Concerten Tot en Met

20:30, Sunday 21 September 2003
Het Bethaniënklooster (external link)
Barndesteeg 6B
1012 BV Amsterdam
Netherlands

Pawel Szymanski Two Illusory Constructions 198413
Michael Finnissy Banumbirr 19829
Elena Kats-Chernin Gypsy Ramble 1996
Michael Smetanin Spray 19906
Kaija Saariaho Cendres 1974/93
Dominik Karski Streams of Consciousness (Part I) 2000

Ensemble Offspring

Warsaw Autumn 2003

16:30, Tuesday 23 September 2003
Frederic Chopin Academy of Music
Warsaw
Poland

Performances with Ensemble Offspring at the 2003 Warsaw Autumn Festival.

Damien Ricketson Trace Elements 2003
Pawel Szymanski Two Illusory Constructions 198413
Michael Finnissy Banumbirr 19829
Elena Kats-Chernin Gypsy Ramble 1996
Michael Smetanin Spray 19906
Kaija Saariaho Cendres 1974/93
Dominik Karski Streams of Consciousness (Part I) 2000

Ensemble Offspring

Ensemble Offspring

18:00, Friday 26 September 2003
Malwa Klub of Contemporary Music
Dobrego Pasterza 6
Kraków
Poland

Damien Ricketson Trace Elements 2003
Pawel Szymanski Two Illusory Constructions 198413
Michael Finnissy Banumbirr 19829
Elena Kats-Chernin Gypsy Ramble 1996
Michael Smetanin Spray 19906
Kaija Saariaho Cendres 1974/93
Dominik Karski Streams of Consciousness (Part I) 2000

Sixteen Dances

Melbourne International Festival Chamber Music Series

Libra Ensemble / Melbourne International Festival

18:00, Saturday 25 October 2003
Collins St Baptist Church (external link)
174 Collins St
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

The Libra Ensemble conducted by Mark Knoop perform John Cage's seminal work composed for Merce Cunningham's company in 1951.

For more information see the Melbourne Festival website and the Libra Ensemble website.

John Cage Sixteen Dances 195150

The Imaginary Opera Project

Ensemble Offspring

18:00, Sunday 2 November 2003
Music Workshop (external link)
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
1 Macquarie Street Sydney New South Wales
Australia

Ensemble Offspring presents a multimedia evening of music and image as part of the New Music Network's inaugural New Music Now series. The event focuses on the premiere of The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Show, a double-narrative singerless opera created by ensemble co-founder Matthew Shlomowitz with digital artist Scott Wilson and writer Allison Carruth. The program features further music-image collaborations including renowned digital artist Justine Cooper and Barton Staggs and the first audio-visual rendering of Morton Feldman's Instruments 1 with visual artist James McGrath.

Morton Feldman Instruments I 1974
Matthew Shlomowitz The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Show 2003*

Chinese Whisper

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Saturday 8 November 2003
Melba Hall (external link)
University of Melbourne
Royal Parade Parkville Victoria
Australia

Mark Knoop conducts the Libra Ensemble in performances of Hindemith's Kammermusik No 3, with solo cellist Friedrich Gauwerky, and Damien Ricketson's Chinese Whisper.

Full concert details here.

Mauricio Kagel Match 196418
Damien Ricketson Chinese Whisper 200014
Bernd Alois Zimmermann Sonate 196015
Paul Hindemith Kammermusik No 3 opus 36/2 192517

Exotic birds

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Wednesday 12 November 2003
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

The premiere of Streams Within, for soloists and ensemble, commissioned by Libra Ensemble from Australian composer Dominik Karski, alongside Messiaen's classic Oiseaux exotiques and the Australian premiere of Brian Ferneyhough's monumental work for speaking pianist.

Full concert details here.

Brian Ferneyhough Opus Contra Naturam - A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist 200013
Dominik Karski Streams Within 2001-03*23
Pierre Boulez Anthèmes 19926
Olivier Messiaen Oiseaux exotiques 1955-5614

Phase Portraits

Libra Ensemble

20:00, Friday 14 November 2003
Federation Hall (external link)
Victorian College of the Arts
St Kilda Rd Melbourne Victoria
Australia

The first complete performance of Chris Dench's thirty year piano cycle.

Full details of the Phase Portraits cycle can be found here.

Chris Dench Phase Portraits [more info...] 1973-2003*75
Chris Dench Pas Seul III: rushes [more info...] 1979/19967
Chris Dench mem(e) [more info...] 1997/20035

Plus-Minus

BMIC Cutting Edge 2003

19:30, Thursday 20 November 2003
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

Stefan Van Eycken A feeling of something happening 2003*
Matthew Shlomowitz Thought Rhythms 1999
Michael Finnissy WAM 1990-9112
Bryn Harrison Rise 2003*11
Richard Ayres No. 19
Richard Barrett Von Hinter Dem Schmerz 1996
Karlheinz Stockhausen Plus Minus Nr 14 (realized by Erik Ulman) 1963/2003

Plus-Minus

Plus-Minus

20:30, Saturday 22 November 2003
Nadine [plateau] (external link)
Herderstraat 30
Brussels
Belgium

Stefan Van Eycken A feeling of something happening 2003¤
Matthew Shlomowitz Thought Rhythms 1999
Michael Finnissy WAM 1990-9112
Bryn Harrison Rise 2003¤11
Richard Ayres No. 19
Richard Barrett Von Hinter Dem Schmerz 1996
Karlheinz Stockhausen Plus Minus Nr 14 (realized by Erik Ulman) 1963/2003

Ensemble Exposé

Huddersfield Festival

13:00, Tuesday 25 November 2003
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Brian Ferneyhough Incipits 1996
Roger Redgate Oboe Quintet
Chaya Czernowin Afatsim 1996
Michael Finnissy Greatest Hits of All Time 2003*
Brian Ferneyhough Flurries 1997

Ensemble Exposé

Durham Musicon Series

19:30, Friday 28 November 2003
Elvet Methodist Church
8 Old Elvet
DH1 3HL Durham
United Kingdom

Brian Ferneyhough Incipits 1996
Roger Redgate Oboe Quintet
Chaya Czernowin Afatsim 1996
Brian Ferneyhough Flurries 1997
Michael Finnissy Greatest Hits of All Time 2003
Brian Ferneyhough La Chute d’Icare 1988

Zueignung

Knoop-Waldock Duo

Christine Flint Music Education Trust

19:30, Thursday 4 December 2003
Toll Gavel Uniting Church
Beverley
United Kingdom

A concert with baritone Kevin Ormond in aid of the Christine Flint Music Education Trust.

Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke opus 73 1849
Richard Strauss Allerseelen opus 10 nr 8
Richard Strauss Zueignung opus 10 nr 1
Leos Janácek Pohádka 1910, rev 1923
Gerald Finzi 3 songs from ”Earth and Air and Rain”
Witold Lutoslawski Grave, Metamorphosis 1981
Benjamin Britten Sonata for Cello and Piano C major opus 65 1960-61

The Blessed Sacrement

All Saints' Church

13:15, Monday 26 January 2004
All Saints Church (external link)
Market Place
KT1 1JP Kingston-Upon-Thames
United Kingdom

Olivier Messiaen Livre du Saint Sacrement (excerpts) 1984

Coloratura

Libra Duo

King's College London

19:30, Monday 8 March 2004
Great Hall, King’s College London
Strand
WC2R 2LS London
United Kingdom

Gerald Barry Low 19916
Andrew Digby evaporation 20026
Brendan Colbert Scorn 2002*8
Brian Ferneyhough Opus Contra Naturam - A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist 200013
Enno Poppe 60 x F.G. 20011
Brian Ferneyhough Coloratura 19668
Alban Berg Vier Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier opus 5 19138
Mauricio Kagel Unguis incarnatus est 19726
Peter Maxwell Davies Hymnos 196712

Schumann-Fantasien

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

20:00, Saturday 27 March 2004
Prinzregententheater (external link)
Prinzregentenplatz 12
81675 München
Germany

A concert with the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Rupert Huber. Angela Maria Blasi, soprano; Rainer Trost, tenor; Ian Pace, Mark Knoop, piano.

Rupert Huber Der Kranke Mann, Variationen und Phantasie über ein Thema von Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann Geistervariationen für Klavier Es-Dur ohne opus
Johannes Brahms Variationen über ein Thema von Robert Schumann für Klavier zu vier Händen Es-Dur opus 23
Robert Schumann Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, Oratorium für Soli, Chor und Klavier, opus 112

Beethoven and Strauss

Knoop-Waldock Duo

St Anne & St Agnes Lunchtime Concerts

13:10, Monday 29 March 2004
St Anne & St Agnes
Gresham Street
EC2 7BX London
United Kingdom

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 4 C major opus 102/1 1815
Richard Strauss Sonata for Cello and Piano F major opus 6 1880-8326

Coloratura

Libra Duo

Akademie Schloss Solitude

19:00, Tuesday 6 April 2004
Akademie Schloss Solitude (external link)
Solitude 3
70197 Stuttgart
Germany

Gerald Barry Low 19916
Andrew Digby evaporation 20026
Brendan Colbert Scorn 2002§8
Brian Ferneyhough Opus Contra Naturam - A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist 200013
Enno Poppe 60 x F.G. 20011
Brian Ferneyhough Coloratura 19668
Richard Emsley Still/s 22 2002§5
Alban Berg Vier Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier opus 5 19138
Mauricio Kagel Unguis incarnatus est 19726

Plus-Minus

COMA Summer Course

20:15, Monday 26 July 2004
Breton Hall
Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Bryn Harrison Rise 200311
Erik Ulman Thoughts on the Esterhazy Court Uniform 2004*
Robert Ashley In Memoriam Esteban Gomez (realised by Alex Waterman) 1963
Howard Jones Eden Falls Still 2003*
Richard Ayres No. 19
Laurence Crane Bobby J 2002
Karlheinz Stockhausen Plus Minus Nr 14 (realized by Erik Ulman) 1963/2003

CBSO Centre Stage

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

13:10, Wednesday 6 October 2004
CBSO Centre (external link)
Berkley Street
B1 2LF Birmingham
United Kingdom

A lunchtime concert of Schumann chamber music with Truls Mørk and the CBSO Players. More information on the CBSO website.

Robert Schumann Andante and Variations opus 46 184317
Robert Schumann Piano Quintet E flat major opus 44 184229

Brahms und canto jondo

WDR Rundfunkchor Köln

20:00, Friday 26 November 2004
Immanuelskirche
Sternstraße / von Eynernstraße
42275 Wuppertal-Barmen
Germany

A concert with the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln conducted by Rupert Huber. The concert also includes a performance of Gypsy love songs from southern Spain.

Antonio de la Malena de Jerez, voice
Andrés Hernández Alba, guitar
Ian Pace, Mark Knoop, piano

Further details on the WDR website.

Johannes Brahms Liebeslieder opus 52 1868-69
Johannes Brahms Neue Liebeslieder opus 65 1874

Brahms und canto jondo

WDR Rundfunkchor Köln

20:00, Saturday 27 November 2004
Zeche Zollverein, Salzlager (external link)
Gelsenkirchener Straße 181
45309 Essen
Germany

A concert with the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln conducted by Rupert Huber. The concert also includes a performance of Gypsy love songs from southern Spain.

Antonio de la Malena de Jerez, voice
Andrés Hernández Alba, guitar
Ian Pace, Mark Knoop, piano

Further details on the WDR website.

Johannes Brahms Liebeslieder opus 52 1868-69
Johannes Brahms Neue Liebeslieder opus 65 1874

Johannes Staud reception

Universal Edition / Austrian Cultural Forum

18:30, Monday 29 November 2004
Austrian Cultural Forum
28 Rutland Gate
SW7 1PQ London
United Kingdom

An evening reception to celebrate the arrival of Johannes Maria Staud to the UK for the coming academic year.

Johannes Maria Staud Bewegungen 19968

Ensemble Exposé

BMIC Cutting Edge 2004

19:30, Thursday 9 December 2004
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

James Dillon Vernal Showers 199215
Heinz Holliger Schwarzgewobene trauer 1961-1962, rev 19666
Michael Finnissy Greatest Hits of All Time 2003
Ross Lorraine within what changelessness 2004*
Joanna Bailie Waning 1998
Brian Ferneyhough Time and Motion Study I 1971-779

Sven-Ingo und anders

A portrait concert of Sven-Ingo Koch

Treffpunkt Rotebühl-Platz

20:00, Friday 11 March 2005
Treffpunkt Rotebühl-Platz
Rotebühlplatz 28
D-70173 Stuttgart
Germany

A portrait concert of the composer Sven-Ingo Koch with Friedrich Gauwerky, cello and Carl Rosman, clarinet.

Sven-Ingo Koch Tonopah-Page 2003
Iannis Xenakis Charisma 19714
Helmut Lachenmann Allegro sostenuto 1986-8835
Sven-Ingo Koch Anders und Y 1999-2000
Sven-Ingo Koch M und Y und nicht anders (die Utopie nicht vergessen!) 2001

The Kestrel Road

Kingston Choral Society

19:30, Saturday 12 March 2005
All Saints Church (external link)
Market Place
KT1 1JP Kingston-Upon-Thames
United Kingdom

The Kingston Choral Society presents a new work commissioned by Making Music in celebration of Maxwell Davies' 70th birthday.

The concert also explores three British composers' varied musical relationships with jazz. Mark Knoop (piano) and Robin Page (conductor).

Peter Maxwell Davies The Kestrel Road 200315
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - How long has this been going on? 1975-884
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - They can’t take that away from me 1975-884
John Rutter Birthday Madrigals 199516
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - A foggy day in London town 1975-883
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - They’re writing songs of love, but not for me 1975-884
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - Embraceable you 1975-884
George Shearing Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare 199918

Plus-Minus

Nadine [plateau]

Wednesday 16 March 2005
Nadine [plateau] (external link)
Herderstraat 30
Brussels
Belgium

Robert Ashley In Memoriam Esteban Gomez (realised by Alex Waterman) 1963
Matthew Shlomowitz Cannot Not 20046
Karlheinz Stockhausen Plus Minus Nr 14 (realized by Erik Ulman) 1963/2003
James Saunders #160305 2000-
Thomas Meadowcroft Weisengrund 2001
David Helbich Lauthalt 2005*

Plus-Minus

Bach - Neue Musik

20:00, Thursday 17 March 2005
St Petri Dom (external link)
Am Markt
Bremen
Germany

Robert Ashley In Memoriam Esteban Gomez (realised by Alex Waterman) 1963
Matthew Shlomowitz Cannot Not 20046
Karlheinz Stockhausen Plus Minus Nr 14 (realized by Erik Ulman) 1963/2003
James Saunders #160305 2000-
Thomas Meadowcroft Weisengrund 2001
David Helbich Lauthalt 2005§

Esprit rude, esprit doux

Libra Ensemble

19:30, Monday 28 March 2005
St Giles’ Cripplegate
Fore Street
EC2Y 8DA London
United Kingdom

Libra celebrates Pierre Boulez' 80th birthday with performances of his work alongside premieres of two works by British and Australian composers.

Pierre Boulez Douze Notations 1945, rev 198510
Pierre Boulez Sonatine 194612
Pierre Boulez Domaines 196812
Elliott Carter Esprit rude/esprit doux 19845
Michael Finnissy Sikangnuqa 19798
James Clarke trio 19884
Richard Emsley Still/s 10 2004*6
Dominik Karski inward 2004*8
Richard Barrett what remains 1990-919

Premiere Opening Music Night

Rational Rec: Fundraising Gala

19:00, Tuesday 4 October 2005
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (external link)
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

Celebrate the launch of Rational Rec's inaugural season with performances by Mark Knoop, Andrew Sparling, Simon Bookish, Kirsten Le Strange and Aloi.

Also includes a Grand Prize Raffle and a recreation of the famous 6 Degrees of Separation mail experiment.

Charles Ives Piano Sonata Nr 1, fourth mmt 1902-105
Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo 19184
Andrew Toovey Lament, strathspey, reel 19888

thousands of bundled straw

Melbourne International Arts Festival

20:00, Tuesday 18 October 2005
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Presented by Libra Ensemble in association with Aphids and the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Thousands of Bundled Straw is a major new work by Australian composer David Young, which has been in development with the Libra Ensemble for a decade. Inspired by an ancient myth of the Temple of the Healing Eyes in far western Japan, Thousands of Bundled Straw is performed in its entirety for the first time as part of this year's festival. At once epic, subtle and witty, Thousands of Bundled Straw is a fascinating song cycle featuring five eggs, 12 instrumentalists and soprano Deborah Kayser.

Deborah Kayser, soprano
Libra Ensemble
Mark Knoop, conductor

David Young thousands of bundled straw 1998-2004©

Ensemble Exposé

BMIC Cutting Edge 2005

19:30, Thursday 27 October 2005
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

A fourth appearance in the BMIC cutting edge series by the experimental Ensemble Exposé, formed in 1984 by composers Roger Redgate and Michael Finnissy. They have since established an international reputation for presenting some of the most challenging and virtuosic contemporary music around. The programme will focus on aspects of 'spectral music' with work by Tristan Murail, John Croft and Brice Pauset.

Mary Bellamy Constellations 19996
Sam Hayden Recoil 200110
Michael Finnissy Jesei
Tristan Murail Treize Couleurs du Soleil Couchant 198715
John Croft serenata al cielo afflitt 2005*
Tristan Murail C’est un jardin secret 1976
Brice Pauset Huit Canons 199832

Plus-Minus

Sunday 22 January 2006
Stanford University (external link)
California
United States of America

David Franzson Il Dolce Fare Niente 2004
Stefan Van Eycken A feeling of something happening 2003
Erik Ulman Thoughts on the Esterhazy Court Uniform 2004
James Saunders #220106 2000-
Richard Barrett Tract 1984-9625
Karlheinz Stockhausen Plus Minus Nr 14 (realized by Erik Ulman) 1963/2003

Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra

19:30, Saturday 25 March 2006
Worthing Assembly Hall
Stoke Abbot Road
BN11 1HQ Worthing West Sussex
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop performs Beethoven's fifth piano concerto with the Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Robin Page.

Carl Nielsen Overture: Helios opus 17 1901
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 E flat major “Emperor” opus 73 1809
Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet g minor opus 25 (orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg) 1861 (1937)

Plus-Minus

Logos Muziek in de Maak II: festival for young experimental musik makers

Thursday 30 March 2006
Logos Tetrahedron (external link)
Bomastraat 26-28
Gent
Belgium

James Saunders #300306-1 2000-
Gabriel Erkoreka Dos Zortzikos 200010
Laurence Crane Sparling 19925
Tim Parkinson two cardboard boxes 200311
Joanna Bailie under-writing 2006*
David Helbich Hallo 2005
James Saunders #300306-2 2000-

Carmina Burana

Kingston Choral Society

19:30, Saturday 8 April 2006
All Saints Church (external link)
Market Place
KT1 1JP Kingston-Upon-Thames
United Kingdom

Duo pianists Mark Knoop and Ian Pace join the Kingston Choral Society conducted by Robin Page.

Antonin Dvorák Ctyri sbory pro smísené hlasy, opus 29 1876
Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances (selected) 1869
Carl Orff Carmina Burana (version for choir, two pianos and percussion) 1937

Irrational Reels

Rational Rec

20:00, Tuesday 6 June 2006
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (external link)
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

If those cheeky Victorian rational recreationalists had invented film, we're pretty sure they'd have screened some. So we will. Come along and eat popcorn and cake, join in the Sean Connery and Alfred Hitchcock quizzes and enjoy a night in with a DVD at Rational Rec.

Mark Knoop performs Erik Satie's live soundtrack to the classic 1924 film Entr'acte. Premiered as interludes for the ballet Relâche, this short film was directed by René Clair with music for both the ballet and the film composed by Erik Satie. The cast includes cameo appearances of Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp.

Laura Malacart Chameleon
Joanna Callaghan The Edgar Hinton Fun Park
Richard Squires Control Group
René Clair Entr’acte 192419
Dave Ball Swinging a loaf of bread around my head
Emily Richardson BLOCK
David Brazier What it looks like when two years pass you by and it feels like two seconds

Plus-Minus

Rational Rec: Gala Finale

19:00, Tuesday 4 July 2006
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (external link)
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

Rational Rec presents performances by Ensemble Plus-Minus and John Lely in a Special Gala Musical Finale to its inaugural season.

James Saunders #040706 2000-
Steve Reich Piano Phase 1967

175 East

19:30, Saturday 19 August 2006
Hunter Council Chamber (external link)
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington
New Zealand

Mark Knoop joins New Zealand's eminent contemporary music ensemble 175 East and violinist Mark Menzies for concerts in Wellington and Auckland.

Richard Barrett Trawl 1995-97¿10
Richard Barrett Lost 2004¿5
Larry Goves swerving with the weave 2006*
Samuel Holloway Here we are for a moment 2006*
Bill Hopkins Pendant 1968-9, rev 1973¿
Evan Johnson Ausschnitte 2003¿
Evan Johnson clutch 2005¿
Damien Ricketson Trace Elements 2003¿

175 East

19:30, Sunday 20 August 2006
Hopetoun Alpha (external link)
Auckland
New Zealand

Mark Knoop joins New Zealand's eminent contemporary music ensemble 175 East and violinist Mark Menzies for concerts in Wellington and Auckland.

Richard Barrett Trawl 1995-9710
Richard Barrett Lost 20045
Larry Goves swerving with the weave 2006
Samuel Holloway Here we are for a moment 2006
Bill Hopkins Pendant 1968-9, rev 1973
Evan Johnson Ausschnitte 2003
Evan Johnson clutch 2005
Damien Ricketson Trace Elements 2003

The Finnissy Weekend

Concert 4

BMIC

16:00, Sunday 24 September 2006
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

Variously described as "the most important living British composer", "a continuing inspiration" and "an underground movement", Michael Finnissy's music is a cause célébre for a generation of performers and composers. BMIC Cutting Edge presents a unique, weekend-long, 60th birthday retrospective of this prolific and virtuosic composer, in performances by many of his leading exponents.

Michael Finnissy Seterjentens Fridag 20038
Michael Finnissy Wild Flowers 197410
Michael Finnissy “n“ for ensemble 1969/72
Michael Finnissy Mississippi Hornpipes 198210
Michael Finnissy Back on Earth 2005*7

Fundraising Music Gala

Rational Rec

20:00, Tuesday 3 October 2006
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (external link)
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

Rational Rec's Season 2 launch features contemporary classics that redefined attitudes towards instrumental composition, leading London experimental music figure, Brazilian-influenced swing, some tests of your listening skills, as well as games, "arty conversation with some friendly socialising" (Time Out, Feb 2006) and cake.

Darius Milhaud Scaramouche 1939
Claude Debussy La Mer (version by André Caplet for two pianos) 1905
Tom Johnson Same or Different 200415

David Lumsdaine 75th Birthday Concert

University of York

19:30, Friday 3 November 2006
The Rymer Auditorium
University of York
YO1 5DD Heslington, York
United Kingdom

David Lumsdaine: complete music for solo piano

David Lumsdaine's music for solo piano music combines a joyous celebration of sound, including echoes of the Australian landscape, with an intense engagement with the avant garde. In celebration of the composer's 75th birthday, virtuoso Australian pianist Mark Knoop takes us on a journey through this music in the intimate setting of the Rymer Auditorium.

Further information and bookings from the University of York.

David Lumsdaine Kelly Ground 196620
David Lumsdaine Ruhe sanfte, sanfte Ruh’ 197418
David Lumsdaine Cambewarra 198021
David Lumsdaine Six Postcard Pieces 19945

Plus-Minus

BMIC Cutting Edge 2006

19:30, Thursday 30 November 2006
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

At BMIC cutting edge, Plus-Minus presents two of everything: a pair of landmark 1960s experimental works from either side of the Atlantic by Cornelius Cardew and Robert Ashley, two piano pieces by British composers Barrett and Dench and two new works written especially for the group by Øyvind Torvund and Joanna Bailie.

Øyvind Torvund Tune park 2006*
Chris Dench Pas Seul III: rushes [more info...] 1979/19967
Robert Ashley In Memoriam Esteban Gomez (realised by Alex Waterman) 1963
Joanna Bailie double 2006*9
Richard Barrett Lost 20045
Cornelius Cardew Treatise 1963-67

Artquest 5th Birthday

Rational Rec

20:00, Tuesday 5 December 2006
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (external link)
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

A fifth birthday party for Artquest: London's advice and information service for visual artists and craftspeople featuring music by plus-minus.

Laurence Crane Cello Piece for Michael Parsons 19985
Robert Ashley In Memoriam Esteban Gomez (realised by Alex Waterman) 1963
Christopher Fox Generic Composition #7 1999-20017
Matthew Shlomowitz Slow Flipping Harmony 2006
John Cage Five 1988

Lumsdaine and his influences

19:30, Friday 19 January 2007
Great Hall, King’s College London
Strand
WC2R 2LS London
United Kingdom

David Lumsdaine Kelly Ground 196620
Don Banks Pezzo Dramatico 19565
David Lumsdaine Ruhe sanfte, sanfte Ruh’ 197418
David Lumsdaine Cambewarra 198021
Johann Sebastian Bach Französische Ouverture BWV 831 1735
David Lumsdaine Six Postcard Pieces 19945

New Rational Music

Rational Rec

20:00, Tuesday 6 February 2007
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (external link)
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

New Rational Music, programmed by Rational Rec's Matthew Shlomowitz and Cecilia Wee, features new works by six UK composers. The music and accompanying composer conversations draw on themes including the fragment, performance art and the experimental tradition.

Performed by Mark Knoop, Roderick Chadwick, Laurence Crane, Kwezi Edeman, Matthew Shlomowitz and Cecilia Wee. New Rational Music was supported by The Hinrichsen Foundation.

Joanna Bailie On and Off 2007*7
Paul Whitty i tried living in the real world 2007*10
Alex Hills The Fountain and the Garden 2007*10
John Lely Second Symphony 2007*7
Diana Burrell One-man band 2007*10
Christopher Fox A brief musical tribute to Harold Pinter, after the manner of his later work 2007*10

Composition Kit

Plus-Minus

Royal Academy of Music

12:30, Thursday 1 March 2007
Piano Gallery, York Gate Collections (external link)
Royal Academy of Music
Marylebone Road London
United Kingdom

Michael Finnissy Seterjentens Fridag 20038
Christopher Fox Generic Composition #7 1999-20017
Adam Yee Scenes 2 and 4 from Cannibal Pearce 2005*12
Damien Ricketson Porfyrius Shuffle 20068
Øyvind Torvund Tune park 2006

Ensemble Laboratorium

19:30, Monday 12 March 2007
Museo Nacional Reina Sofia (external link)
Santa Isabel 52
28012 Madrid
Spain

Ensemble Laboratorium conducted by Aurélien Azan Zielinski perform at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia.

Javier Torres Maldonado Figuralmusik II/a 2001*8
Rebecca Saunders Into the Blue 199613
Hector Parra Strata-Antigone II 2002*10
Samir Odeh-Tamimi Hutáf Al-Arwah II 20018
Jennifer Walshe This is why people o.d. on pills / and jump from the golden gate bridge 20045
Liza Lim Veil 199910
Aram Hovhanissyan Sacrimus 2006*4

Plus-Minus

Borealis Festival

21:00, Friday 16 March 2007
Logen Teater (external link)
Øvre Ole Bulls plass 6
5012 Bergen
Norway

Plus-Minus performs at the 2007 Borealis Festival. The group will also perform solos and duos including works by Christopher Fox, Laurence Crane, Richard Barrett and Tim Parkinson in the Mikroludium events during the Festival.

Bryn Harrison Rise 200311
Joanna Bailie double 20069
Trond Reinholdtsen Music as Emotion 2007*30

Ensemble Laboratorium

Lucerne Festival zu Ostern

20:00, Saturday 31 March 2007
Luzerner Saal (external link)
Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern
Luzern
Switzerland

Lucerne Festival presents Ensemble Laboratorium conducted by Aurélien Azan Zielinski.

Javier Torres Maldonado Figuralmusik II/a 20018
Rebecca Saunders Into the Blue 199613
Hector Parra Strata-Antigone II 200210
Samir Odeh-Tamimi Hutáf Al-Arwah II 20018
Jennifer Walshe This is why people o.d. on pills / and jump from the golden gate bridge 20045
Liza Lim Veil 199910
Johannes Maria Staud Configurations/Reflet 200210
Aram Hovhanissyan Sacrimus 20064

Bandroom Bethnal Green

Rational Rec

20:00, Tuesday 3 April 2007
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club (external link)
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

Norwegian composer Øyvind Torvund curates a night of musical and visual happenings. He has composed several short avant-garde folk pieces that will be performed by the Anglo/Belgian Plus Minus Ensemble who will teach the pieces to other musicians by ear. Each piece has a visual partner, a drawing by Canadian comic artist Marc Bell. These drawings will be recreated by a group of artists in their own style and given away to members of the audience.

Artists: Penny Sadubin, Tim Rushby-Smith, Tanya Mlcek and Galen Wainwright.

Musicians: Plus Minus, Kjel Tore Innervik, Håkon Stene, Tim Parkinson, Jennifer Allum, Adam De la Cour, Joakim Munker, Steve Beresford and Dom Lash.

Øyvind Torvund Tune park 2006
Øyvind Torvund A lecture about ornaments 5

175 East

19:30, Friday 4 May 2007
St Andrew’s on The Terrace (external link)
30 The Terrace
Wellington
New Zealand

Mark Knoop joins New Zealand's eminent contemporary music ensemble 175 East with guest clarinettist Richard Haynes for concerts in Wellington and Auckland.

Morton Feldman For Stockhausen, Cage, Stravinsky and Mary Sprinson 19721
Morton Feldman Half a minute it’s all I’ve time for 1972
Morton Feldman Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano 19719
Michael Finnissy Alkan - Paganini 1997¿12
Michael Finnissy Recent Britain 1997-98¿25
Laurence Crane Trio 1996¿5
Aaron Cassidy asphyxia 2000¿8
Wolfgang Rihm Chiffre IV 1984¿9

175 East

19:30, Sunday 6 May 2007
Hopetoun Alpha (external link)
Auckland
New Zealand

Mark Knoop joins New Zealand's eminent contemporary music ensemble 175 East with guest clarinettist Richard Haynes for concerts in Wellington and Auckland.

Morton Feldman For Stockhausen, Cage, Stravinsky and Mary Sprinson 19721
Morton Feldman Half a minute it’s all I’ve time for 1972
Morton Feldman Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano 19719
Michael Finnissy Alkan - Paganini 199712
Michael Finnissy Recent Britain 1997-9825
Laurence Crane Trio 19965
Aaron Cassidy asphyxia 20008
Wolfgang Rihm Chiffre IV 19849

Val Camonica Pieces

Aphids in association with Libra Ensemble

18:00, Thursday 10 May 2007
20:00, Friday 11 May 2007
Fairfax Studio (external link)
Victorian Arts Centre
St Kilda Rd Melbourne Victoria
Australia

The Libra Ensemble, conducted by Mark Knoop, performs the Val Camonica pieces by David Young. Inspired and informed by ancient rock carvings found in Northern Italy's Camonica Valley, David Young's chamber works become a multimedia performance event: graphic notation, a new film by Louise Curham, and music conjure the fascination of civilisations past, and the intriguing ambiguity of our relationship to them.

With Cynthia Troup writer, Louise Curham film artist, Mark Knoop piano and conductor, Yasutaka Hemmi violin and the Libra Ensemble. Presented by Full Tilt at the Victorian Arts Centre.

David Young Incisioni Rupestri 20049
David Young Stile I, II, III 19967
David Young Roccia 20038
David Young Sarcophagus 20008
David Young Inventario 199910
David Young Animali 20028

Brahms und bearbeitung

WDR Rundfunkchor Köln

20:00, Friday 1 June 2007
Zeche Zollverein, Salzlager (external link)
Gelsenkirchener Straße 181
45309 Essen
Germany

This concert featuring a rare performance of this version of Brahms' Requiem continues Ian Pace and Mark Knoop's collaboration with the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln and Rupert Huber, which began in 2004 with performances of Brahms' Liebeslieder.

Simone Nold, soprano
Andreas Schmidt, baritone
Ian Pace and Mark Knoop, piano
Rupert Huber, conductor

Further details on the WDR website.

Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, op 45 (version for soloists, choir, two pianos and timpani by Heinrich Poos) 186875

Brahms und bearbeitung

WDR Rundfunkchor Köln

20:00, Saturday 2 June 2007
Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz (external link)
Köln
Germany

This concert featuring a rare performance of this version of Brahms' Requiem continues Ian Pace and Mark Knoop's collaboration with the WDR Rundfunkchor Köln and Rupert Huber, which began in 2004 with performances of Brahms' Liebeslieder.

Simone Nold, soprano
Andreas Schmidt, baritone
Ian Pace and Mark Knoop, piano
Rupert Huber, conductor

Further details on the WDR website.

Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, op 45 (version for soloists, choir, two pianos and timpani by Heinrich Poos) 186875

Plus-Minus

National Portrait Gallery

18:30, Friday 15 June 2007
National Portrait Gallery (external link)
St Martin’s Place
London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus performs Christopher Fox's installation for ensemble and voices in the National Portrait Gallery's Friday Evening Music Series.

Christopher Fox Everything You Need To Know 1999-200160

fORCH, Knoop, Rosman

Spitalfields Festival

20:30, Saturday 16 June 2007
Shoreditch Church
London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop and Carl Rosman present the world premiere of Richard Barrett's Flechtwerk alongside the first UK performance of Barrett's ensemble fORCH.

Tickets available via the Spitalfields Festival.

Richard Barrett Flechtwerk 2002-06*14
fORCH fOKT IV 2007

The Calculators 2

Fifth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900

22:30, Friday 6 July 2007
Wentworth Bar (external link)
University of York
YO1 5DD Heslington, York
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop, Matthew Shlomowitz and David Helbich perform experimental works based around the theme of numbers.

View video of the performance on YouTube.

David Helbich The Top Ten of Natural Numbers 2007
David Helbich Der Mond ist unter anderem aufgegangen 2003-045
David Helbich Schnipsen
Tom Johnson Counting Duets 1982
David Helbich Klatschen zählen
György Kurtág Játékok (selections)
Matthew Shlomowitz Arsenal, Bahrain, Chihauhau, Darjeeling and Eisenhower 2007*
Gerhard Rühm 12! ein zahlengedicht 19795

Orion

Knoop-Waldock Duo

University of Hull

13:15, Friday 28 September 2007
Middleton Hall (external link)
University of Hull
HU6 7RX Hull
United Kingdom

Christina Waldock and Mark Knoop present a recital in the University of Hull lunchtime concert series.

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Cello No 2 G minor opus 5/2 1796
Toru Takemitsu Orion 19849
Sergei Prokofiev Sonata for Cello and Piano C major opus 119 1949

Plus-Minus

ULTIMA Festival

22:00, Monday 8 October 2007
Parkteatret (external link)
Olaf Ryes plass 11
0552 Oslo
Norway

Plus-Minus performs at the ULTIMA Contemporary Music Festival.

Bryn Harrison Rise 200311
Tom Johnson Trio 20058
Joanna Bailie double 20069
Trond Reinholdtsen Music as Emotion 200730

Plus-Minus / Asamisimasa

ULTIMA Festival

22:00, Tuesday 9 October 2007
Parkteatret (external link)
Olaf Ryes plass 11
0552 Oslo
Norway

Plus-Minus joins with Asamisimasa to present three open-scored works at the ULTIMA Contemporary Music Festival.

Louis Andriessen Workers Union 197518
Øyvind Torvund Tune park 2006
Cornelius Cardew Treatise 1963-67

Plus-Minus

TRANSIT Festival

11:00, Saturday 27 October 2007
Leuven STUK (external link)
Naamsestraat 96
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

Plus-Minus performs at the TRANSIT New Music Festival in Leuven.

Øyvind Torvund Tune park 2006¤
Joanna Bailie On and Off 2007¤7
Stefan Van Eycken A feeling of something happening 2003
Thomas Meadowcroft A Vanity Press 200411
Damien Ricketson Same Steps 2007*10

Haynes-Waldock-Knoop

XXVII Festival BBK Músicas actuales

19:30, Tuesday 13 November 2007
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (external link)
Abandoibarra Etorbidea 2
Bilbao
Spain

Richard Haynes (external link), clarinet/bass clarinet; Christina Waldock (external link), cello; Mark Knoop, piano

Stefano Bulfon Questo specchio ti dono 19757
Gerard Brophy gloVe 199510
Massimo Botter L’orecchio di Dioniso 200610
Wolfgang Rihm Chiffre IV 19849
Massimo Botter Sedna 20028
Michael Jarrell Assonance III 198912

New Germans

BBCSO

Friday 16 November 2007
BBC Maida Vale Studios (external link)
Delaware Road
W9 2LG London
United Kingdom

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (external link) presents a programme of recent works by young German composers, including music for solo piano by Enno Poppe (external link) and the premiere of two new works by Charlotte Seither (external link).

Enno Poppe Obst 200613
Enno Poppe Thema mit 840 Variationen 1993/977
Charlotte Seither Musik für Orchester 2007*14
Charlotte Seither Gran passo 2006*10
Iris ter Schiphorst Zerstören II 200625

Music of Today: Enno Poppe

Philharmonia Orchestra

18:00, Thursday 6 December 2007
Royal Festival Hall (external link)
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop jumped in at late notice to perform in this portrait concert of Enno Poppe (external link) presented by the Philharmonia Orchestra (external link).

Franck Ollu (external link), conductor; Mark Knoop, piano; Mark van de Wiel (external link), clarinet; Julian Anderson (external link), presenter.

Enno Poppe Thema mit 840 Variationen 1993/977
Enno Poppe Holz 1999-200010
Enno Poppe Scherben 2000/200412

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.

Luca Francesconi Encore/Da capo 1985/95
Luca Francesconi Kubrick’s Bone 2005

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).

Jonathan Powell Rabbitango 2008*
Gijs Kramers Portal 2008*
Michael Finnissy Yob Cultcha (or ‘Keep taking the Tabloids’) 2008*9
Laurence Crane Some Rock Music for Alan Thomas 2008*
Catherine Kontz Cahiers Trouvés 2008*
Alwynne Pritchard Sheet Music 2008*

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

Brian Ferneyhough La Chute d’Icare 1988
Isabel Mundry Couperin-Perspectiven 2008*
Isabel Mundry Schwankende Zeit 2007*
Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge 1955-56
Bernd Alois Zimmermann Metamorphose 1954

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.

Béla Bartók Suite Paysanne Hongroise (trans Paul Arma) 19568
Traditional Gaelic Air Cha Till MacCrimmon (arr Shona Brown) 5
Traditional Armenian/Scottish Vardani Mor Voghb/Flowers of the Forest (arr Shona Brown, Magnus Mehta) 8
Ian Clarke Zoom Tube 20018
Pierre Boulez Sonatine 194612
Tarek Younis Rising from the Ashes 20055

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.

Maurice Duruflé Requiem opus 9 194740
Robert Schumann Spanisches Liederspiel opus 74/5, 9 6
Robert Schumann Drei Stücklein (from Bunte Blätter opus 99) 4
Robert Schumann Minnespiel opus 101/5, 8 5
Robert Schumann Albumblätter (from Bunte Blätter opus 99) 9
Robert Schumann Vier Gesänge opus 59 13
Robert Schumann Zigeunerleben opus 29/3 3

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.

Iannis Xenakis Anaktoria 196911
Iannis Xenakis Thalleïn 198417

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

Adriana Hölsky Wolke und Mond 199612
Olivier Messiaen Abîme des oiseaux (from Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps) 1941
Brian Ferneyhough Opus Contra Naturam - A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist 200013
Iannis Xenakis Theraps 197512
Richard Barrett Flechtwerk 2002-0614
Gordon Kampe HALs Lullabye 2008*10
Rebecca Saunders Quartet 199813

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).

Tansy Davies inside out 2 20036
Tansy Davies neon 200410
Tansy Davies salt box 2005©11

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).

Michael Finnissy Dust 2008*4
Diana Burrell One-man band 200710
Trond Reinholdtsen 13 Music Theatre Pieces 2008*15

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)

Rolf Wallin Concerning King 20073
Peter Ablinger Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein from Voices and Piano 1998-10

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:

Brendan Colbert Sphinx 1994/2001*14

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.

Michael Finnissy Piano Concerto No 3 1978¿25
Bryn Harrison Rise 2003¿11
Laurence Crane Riis 1996¿8
Christopher Fox Chromascope 2005¿10
Michael Finnissy Kreuzfidel-Polka ¿8
Mathias Spahlinger gegen unendlich 1995¿15
Peter Ablinger Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein from Voices and Piano 1998-¿10

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.

Michael Finnissy Piano Concerto No 3 197825
Bryn Harrison Rise 200311
Laurence Crane Riis 19968
Christopher Fox Chromascope 200510
Michael Finnissy Kreuzfidel-Polka 8
Mathias Spahlinger gegen unendlich 199515
Peter Ablinger Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein from Voices and Piano 1998-10

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).

Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstück V Nr 4/1 19545
Alvin Lucier asamisimasa 2008*16
Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstück XI Nr 7 195614
Brian Ferneyhough Bone Alphabet 1991
Laurence Crane John White in Berlin 200312
Karlheinz Stockhausen Refrain 195912

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).

Peter Ablinger Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu, Mao Tse-Tung from Voices and Piano 1998-15
Matthew Shlomowitz Fast Medium Swing 2008*10
Peter Ablinger Instrumente und Rauschen 1997, 200818
Peter Ablinger Bertolt Brecht, Lech Walesa, Hanna Schygulla from Voices and Piano 1998-15
Markus Trunk Raw Rows 199010
Peter Ablinger Akkordeon und Rauschen 1997-996
Laurence Crane Octet 2008*15

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.

Martin Butler Lovesongs Waltzes 199711
Enno Poppe Holz solo 20049
Adam de la Cour Beat Me 2007*5
Michael Finnissy Clarinet Sonata 200710
Jonathan Harvey Transformations of ‘Love Bade Me Welcome’ 196811
Andrew Digby gripes 2008*12
Richard Barrett Flechtwerk 2002-0614

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).

Brian Ferneyhough Bone Alphabet 1991
Lars Petter Hagen Seven Studies in Self Imposed Tristesse 2007*
Sven Lyder Kahrs Wie Schön Leuchtet der Morgenstern 200312
Bryn Harrison Five Miniatures in Three Parts 2008*
Brian Ferneyhough Time and Motion Study I 1971-779
James Dillon Todesengel 19968

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.

Bryn Harrison Open 2 200116
Markus Trunk Raw Rows 199010
Bryn Harrison Repetitions in Extended Time 2008*43

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.

Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” 196023
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue 192416
Antonin Dvorák Symphony No 9 E minor opus 95 189340

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:

Helmut Lachenmann Pression 1969
Matthew Shlomowitz When is a Door Not a Door? 200820
Adam de la Cour Beat Me 20075

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.

David Young thousands of bundled straw 1998-2004

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.

Matthew Shlomowitz When is a Door Not a Door? 200820
Mark Knoop Southwark Playhouse 2009*50
Adam de la Cour 10! 2008*5
Sasha Milavic Davies Duo 2009*5
Adam de la Cour Milk 20095

BIT20 Ensemble

Borealis Festival

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

Michael Finnissy Après-midi Dada 200615
Christian Jaksjø Multitude [Kammerspill 15.1] The Practice of Everyday Life 2008*
Herman Vogt ... wenn alle länder wust lägen ... 2008*14
Torstein Aargaard-Nilsen The season of blue lights - hommage à G.L. 2008*13

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.

Michael Finnissy Uncharacteristic Marches 2009*10
Kunsu Shim trace, elements (IIa) 200510
Michael Finnissy Folklore I 199212
Michael Finnissy Wild Flowers 197410
Kunsu Shim trace, elements (IIa) 200510

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).

Adam de la Cour 10! 20085
Adam de la Cour Skit 2009*5
John Cage Suite for Toy Piano 194810
Øyvind Torvund Audio Guide 2009*7

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.

Michael Finnissy Tangos

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).

Helmut Lachenmann Allegro sostenuto 1986-8835

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.

Joanna Bailie On and Off 20077
Øyvind Torvund Tune park 2006
Thomas Meadowcroft A Vanity Press 200411
Peter Ablinger Bertolt Brecht, Lech Walesa, Hanna Schygulla from Voices and Piano 1998-15

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.

Edison Denisov Sonata for solo clarinet 8
Øyvind Torvund Audio Guide 20097
Gastro songs of food

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.

James Saunders divisions that could be autonomous but that comprise the whole 2009*
Tim Parkinson Quartet 2009*
Laurence Crane Come back to the old specimen cabinet John Vigani 200712
Matthew Shlomowitz Letter Piece #5 (Northern Cities) 20096
Liza Lim INGUZ (fertility) 1996
György Ligeti Atmospheres (arranged)
Joanna Bailie On and Off 20077
Tom Johnson Trio 20058

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)

Michael Finnissy The Transgressive Gospel 2009120

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.

Christian Wolff Keyboard Miscellany (selection) 1988-1997
Manfred Werder stück 1998 1998
Chris Newman Air Fool Agony Face 2009*16
Chiyoko Szlavnics Cilia Tremble 2006

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).

Frédéric Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor opus 23 1835-368
Camille Saint-Saëns Bassoon Sonata opus 168 192112
Sigfrid Karg-Elert Jugend opus 139a 191920
Franz Strauss Nocturno opus 7 7
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Quintet 187630

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 BrookesThreads for amplified viola and seven loudspeakers.

John Cage Etudes Boreales for piano solo 197818
Christian Wolff For 1, 2 or 3 people 1964

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).

Matthew Shlomowitz Arsenal, Bahrain, Chihauhau, Darjeeling and Eisenhower 2007¤
Matthew Shlomowitz Letter Piece #5 (Northern Cities) 2009¤6

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).

James Beckett Trophies
Iannis Xenakis Charisma 19714
Trond Reinholdtsen Concert Music Piece 2008
Alex Hills Some states can be resolved rhythmically
Matthew Shlomowitz Fast Medium Swing 200810
Giacinto Scelsi Duo
Larry Polansky Ensembles of Note 1998
Trond Reinholdtsen 13 Music Theatre Pieces 200815
James Beckett Rabbit to Score

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.

David Gorton Schmetterlingsspiel 2009*
Paul Archbold Fluxions 2009*
Roger Redgate Concerto for improvising soloist and two ensembles 2009*

Borealis Festival launch

Out Hear

20:00, Monday 25 January 2010
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Bergen’s Borealis Festival (external link) launches its 2010 programme in London. Mark Knoop will perform works by the festival’s resident composers Gerhard Stäbler (external link) and Kunsu Shim (external link), and by Bryn Harrison (external link).

The event includes flute and electronics duo Pascal Baltazar and Bjørnar Habbestad, clarinettist Rolf Borch (external link), a work for escalators and audience by Simon Katan, and a film by Tor Kristen Liseth. The evening finishes with a performance by noise band MoHa! (external link).

Gerhard Stäbler Von Branntwein und Finsternissen 19922
Gerhard Stäbler Internet 1.9 199613
Baltazar & Habbestad flute and electronics
Jennifer Walshe This is why people o.d. on pills / and jump from the golden gate bridge 20045
Kunsu Shim 33 things 2007
Bryn Harrison Quietly Rising 20083

Canto

CeReNeM

13:15, Wednesday 10 February 2010
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Richard Haynes (external link) (clarinet), Séverine Ballon (external link) (cello) and Mark Knoop (piano) perform music by Ulman (external link) and Lachenmann, as well as new works by postgraduate composers.

Timothy McCormack Apparatus 2009*
Erik Ulman Canto XXV 2007*8
Ben Isaacs allone 2009*
Helmut Lachenmann Allegro sostenuto 1986-8835

Sound Studio Concert

City University Concert Series

19:00, Tuesday 16 February 2010
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

City University presents a concert of electroacoustic works with guest artist Mark Knoop. Featuring a new work for piano and live electronics by Newton Armstrong (external link), alongside Evan Johnson’s enigmatic essay and Luigi Nono’s 1976 masterpiece for piano and tape. Also new electroacoustic works by Horacio Vaggione, Erik Nyström and Adam Asnan.

Admission £5/£2.50 concessions. (external link)

Evan Johnson Dehiscences, Lullay (“Thou nost whider it whil turne”) 20058
Luigi Nono .....sofferte onde serene... 197614
Newton Armstrong Three Windows 2009-10*12

Modern Times: Connecting Composers

Kettle’s Yard

12:00, Saturday 20 February 2010
Kettle’s Yard (external link)
Castle Street
CB3 0AQ Cambridge
United Kingdom

A weekend of concerts, talks, films: 19-21 February 2010. The international summer school for new music in Darmstadt, Germany began in 1946 as one of many attempts to regenerate the city following World War II. Composers such as Messiaen, Varese, Berio, Boulez, Cage, Stockhausen and Xenakis taught on the courses and their impact on the new music scene has been profound.

The concerts, curated by Roger Redgate, present many of the major figures associated with the courses through their chamber music. On Saturday 20 February Mark Knoop and Christopher Redgate present two joint concerts in the series.

For further information about the weekend, and to book tickets, see the Kettle’s Yard (external link) website.

Luigi Nono .....sofferte onde serene... 197614
Christopher Fox Broadway Boogie 19848
Helmut Lachenmann Guero 1970/88
Olivier Messiaen Cantéyodjayâ 194812
Chris Dench e/meth 199510

Modern Times: Connecting Composers

Kettle’s Yard

19:30, Saturday 20 February 2010
Kettle’s Yard (external link)
Castle Street
CB3 0AQ Cambridge
United Kingdom

A weekend of concerts, talks, films: 19-21 February 2010. The international summer school for new music in Darmstadt, Germany began in 1946 as one of many attempts to regenerate the city following World War II. Composers such as Messiaen, Varese, Berio, Boulez, Cage, Stockhausen and Xenakis taught on the courses and their impact on the new music scene has been profound.

The concerts, curated by Roger Redgate, present many of the major figures associated with the courses through their chamber music. On Saturday 20 February Mark Knoop and Christopher Redgate present two joint concerts in the series.

For further information about the weekend, and to book tickets, see the Kettle’s Yard (external link) website.

Karlheinz Stockhausen Klavierstück XI Nr 7 195614
Richard Barrett Lost 20045
Bruno Maderna Solo 19718
Roger Redgate Ausgangspunkte 1981-828
Brian Ferneyhough Coloratura 19668
Michael Finnissy Pavasiya 198114
Pierre Boulez Troisième Sonate : formant 2 — trope 1955-57 / 6310
Michael Finnissy Runnin’ Wild 1978
John Cage Etudes Boreales for piano solo 197818

Plus-Minus at Durham

Durham University lunchtime concert

13:10, Thursday 11 March 2010
Durham University (external link)
Durham
United Kingdom

Mariam Rezaei P.M. 2010*
Peter Ablinger Bertolt Brecht, Lech Walesa, Hanna Schygulla from Voices and Piano 1998-15
Laurence Crane Riis 19968
Iannis Xenakis Evryali 197311
Damien Ricketson Same Steps 200710

Xenakis/Saunders/Harrison

Plus-Minus

20:00, Monday 12 April 2010
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents two great works by Xenakis alongside recent ensemble pieces by British composers. Marcus Barcham-Stevens and Roderick Chadwick will perform Dikhthas; Mark Knoop will present Evryali. Tickets on sale 6 February 2010 from Kings Place (external link).

Iannis Xenakis Dikhthas 197914
Rebecca Saunders Vermilion 200315
Iannis Xenakis Evryali 197311
Bryn Harrison Repetitions in Extended Time 200843

Kämmer Klang

20:30, Tuesday 4 May 2010
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

More Kämmer Klang featuring violinist Aisha Orazbayeva, Vicky Wright clarinet, curator and cellist Lucy Railton (external link). Also an improvised set with Seb Rochford drums, Leo Abrahams guitar, and Tim Harries bass.

Newton Armstrong Three Windows 2009-1012
Luciano Berio Sequenza VIII 1976
Morton Feldman Durations 2 19604
Helmut Lachenmann Ein Kinderspiel 198017
Damien Ricketson Same Steps 200710

Ablinger/Reinholdtsen Double Portrait

Spor Festival

19:30, Friday 7 May 2010
Granhøj Dans (external link)
Klosterport 6
8000 Århus
Denmark

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 1-127 2002
Trond Reinholdtsen 13 Music Theatre Pieces 200815

Voices and Piano

Spor Festival

21:00, Saturday 8 May 2010
Granhøj Dans (external link)
Klosterport 6
8000 Århus
Denmark

Mark Knoop performs a selection from Peter Ablinger (external link)'s ongoing cycle Voices and Piano including a new Inuit voice written for the festival.

Peter Ablinger Hanna Schygulla 3
Peter Ablinger Amaunalik 2010*7
Peter Ablinger Marcel Duchamp 5
Peter Ablinger Carmen Baliero 4
Peter Ablinger Morton Feldman 5
Peter Ablinger Bonnie Barnett 3

Disintegrate, degenerate, decompose

Out Hear

20:00, Monday 17 May 2010
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Pianist Mark Knoop presents two musical experiences: Richard Beaudoin (external link)’s new work Études d’un prélude celebrates Chopin’s 200th birth year with a multifaceted aural portrait; Morton Feldman (external link)’s For Bunita Marcus evolves peacefully yet relentlessly across its 70 minute duration, ultimately removing the perspective of instrument or even the passage of time.

Tickets on sale 6 February 2010 from Kings Place (external link).

Richard Beaudoin Étude d’un prélude VII—Latticed Window 2009*2
Richard Beaudoin Étude d’un prélude IV—Black Wires 20097
Richard Beaudoin Étude d’un prélude I—Chopin desséché 2009*7
Morton Feldman For Bunita Marcus 198570

Late Romantics

Libra Duo

19:00, Friday 28 May 2010
Schott Recital Room (external link)
48 Great Marlborough St
W1F 7BB London
United Kingdom

Libra (external link) Duo present new music by Adam de la Cour (external link) alongside two rarely-performed sonatas for clarinet and piano.

Max Reger Sonata for Clarinet and Piano opus 49/1 190024
Sigfrid Karg-Elert Clarinet Sonata No 2 in B major, opus 139b 191922
Adam de la Cour L’Exorcisme du Mômo 2008*20

The Ghost of Morton Feldman 2

Grønland Kammermusikkfestival

Ny Musikk

14:00, Saturday 5 June 2010
Cafeteatret (external link)
Hollendergata 8
Oslo
Norway

Mark Knoop performs in Ny Musikk’s Grønland Kammermusikkfestival (external link).

Morton Feldman Extensions 3 19527
Chris Dench heretical bagatelles: KS 2009*4
Newton Armstrong Three Windows 2009-1012
Morton Feldman Intermission 5 19524
Bryn Harrison Quietly Rising 20083

Lied-konsert

Grønland Kammermusikkfestival

Ny Musikk

14:00, Sunday 6 June 2010
Cafeteatret (external link)
Hollendergata 8
Oslo
Norway

Mark Knoop performs a selection from Peter Ablinger (external link)’s ongoing cycle Voices and Piano including a new Norwegian voice written for the Grønland Kammermusikkfestival (external link).

Peter Ablinger Hanna Schygulla 3
Peter Ablinger Amaunalik 20107
Peter Ablinger Gjendine Slålien *3
Peter Ablinger Marcel Duchamp 5
Peter Ablinger Carmen Baliero 4
Peter Ablinger Morton Feldman 5
Peter Ablinger Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu 2

ELISION ensemble Clementi portrait

Spitalfields Festival

20:30, Friday 18 June 2010
Whitechapel Gallery (external link)
78-82 Whitechapel High St
E1 7QX London
United Kingdom

ELISION (external link) presents a portrait of Aldo Clementi at the Spitalfields Festival (external link).

Aldo Clementi Fantasia su frammenti di Michelangelo Galilei 197810
Aldo Clementi Lento 19845
Aldo Clementi Blues (Fantasie su Frammenti di Thelonius Monk) 20015
Aldo Clementi Dodici Variazioni 19806
Aldo Clementi Dedica 19984
Aldo Clementi Texture 2005
Aldo Clementi B.A.C.H. 19706

ROBERT ASHLEY [...]

Objectif Exhibitions

17:00, Saturday 3 July 2010
Objectif Exhibitions (external link)
Kleine Markt 7-9/26
Antwerp
Belgium

Performances of three works on the closing night of Will Holder’s current show “ROBERT ASHLEY […] ROBERT ASHLEY […] BOB […] ROBERT ASHLEY […] ROBERT ASHLEY […]”. Alex Waterman (external link) performs his live radio play Beacons of Ancestorship; Mark Knoop premieres Ashley’s Maneuvers for Small Hands; and Jeremiah Day performs Lowndes County: Prologue.

Robert Ashley Maneuvers for Small Hands 1961*

Kämmer Klang

20:30, Tuesday 6 July 2010
The Vortex (external link)
11 Gillett Square
N16 8AZ London
United Kingdom

The first night of Kämmer Klang at THE VORTEX, featuring music by Schoenberg, Michael Finnissy, Matthew Shlomowitz and John Cage, headlined by music from Adem Ilhan, composed for various small ensembles.

Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire opus 21 191236
Michael Finnissy Walrus 2010*7
Matthew Shlomowitz Arsenal, Bahrain, Chihauhau, Darjeeling and Eisenhower 2007

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 (external link) 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 Study in Tiled Light 2010*8

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 1977/1982-8540

Letter Piece Company

Huddersfield Festival

13:00, Thursday 25 November 2010
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
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 201020
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 201020

Ablinger/Reinholdtsen Double Portrait

Huddersfield Festival

16:00, Friday 26 November 2010
Phipps Hall
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate
HD1 3DH Huddersfield Yorkshire
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

Squib-box launch event

Squib-box

19:30, Friday 21 January 2011
19:30, Saturday 22 January 2011
Old Deptford Police Station (external link)
114 Amersham Vale
SE14 6LG London
United Kingdom

On the evenings of January the 21st and 22nd, the artist led organization/net label squib-box (external link) will be hosting an official launch weekend at the Old Deptford Police Station. This mini-festival will include a manic mix of performances, interventions, improvisations, films, bar brawls and party games reflecting squib-box‘s ethos that avant-garde performance is not tied to specific genres, disciplines or movements but to an uncompromising attitude towards rethinking established notions about art and music.

Adam de la Cour L’Exorcisme du Mômo 200820
Michael Finnissy Walrus 20107

Knoop Waldock Rosman

Amnesty International

19:30, Tuesday 25 January 2011
Judi Dench Theatre, Hymers College
Hymers Avenue
Hull
United Kingdom

The Hull Amnesty group presents the second in its series of classical concerts in aid of Amnesty International. Hull cellist Christina Waldock (external link) will be joined by pianist Mark Knoop and clarinettist Carl Rosman (external link).

Ludwig van Beethoven Variations for Piano and Cello on “Bei Männern” WoO 46
Gabriel Fauré Trio for piano, clarinet and cello opus 120 192318
Claude Debussy Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano 19108
Johannes Brahms Clarinet Trio a minor opus 114 189126

Kämmer Klang

Institute of Contemporary Arts

20:00, Friday 18 February 2011
Institute of Contemporary Arts (external link)
The Mall
SW1Y 5AH London
United Kingdom

As part of Kämmer Klang (external link) at the ICA, Mark Knoop presents Feldman (external link)’s classic late piano solo. Also works by John Cage (external link), Earle Brown performed by the Kämmer Klang players. Introduction by Christopher Fox at 18:30.

Morton Feldman For Bunita Marcus 198570

Laurence Crane 50th Birthday Portrait Concert

Out Hear

20:00, Monday 21 February 2011
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Plus Minus celebrates the 50th birthday of Laurence Crane with a concert of his works featuring guest performer, soprano Juliet Fraser (external link). This event will be recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

Laurence Crane Come back to the old specimen cabinet John Vigani 200712
Laurence Crane Piano Piece No.23 “Ethiopian Distance Runners” 200922
Laurence Crane Weirdi 199210
Laurence Crane Octet 200815

Ferneyhough portrait

Royal Holloway University of London

19:15, Wednesday 23 February 2011
Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House (external link)
Malet Street
WC1E 7HU London
United Kingdom

After a day-long symposium (external link) on the music of Brian Ferneyhough, Ensemble Exposé (external link) presents a concert of his works.

Brian Ferneyhough La Chute d’Icare 1988
Brian Ferneyhough Flurries 1997
Brian Ferneyhough Incipits 1996
Brian Ferneyhough O Lux 20055

Plus-Minus at Huddersfield

CeReNeM

19:30, Thursday 10 March 2011
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents Iannis Xenakis, Philip Glass (external link), Peter Ablinger (external link) and two pieces written especially for the group by Huddersfield University postgraduate composers. On Wednesday March 9th the group will hold a workshop with student composers.

Iannis Xenakis Dikhthas 197914
Matthew Sergeant veils 2010*13
Peter Ablinger Amtssee bei Regen 200812
Iannis Xenakis Evryali 197311
Colin Tucker the indifferent horizon apathetically rests on the ground, devouring everything that looks like something 2010*10
Philip Glass Music in Contrary Motion 196912

Xenakis Inspires

Ensemble Exposé

Xenakis International Symposium

17:30, Sunday 3 April 2011
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall (external link)
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

Ensemble Exposé (external link)’s programme pays tribute to the work of Iannis Xenakis, featuring three new works by UK-based composers who acknowledge a direct influence of the composer's music and theories, alongside three of Xenakis’ own most famous works.

Iannis Xenakis Anaktoria 196911
Roger Redgate ST/X-t 2011*8
Iannis Xenakis Akea 198613
Michael Finnissy Talawa 2011*10
Haris Kittos Omadón 2011*8
Iannis Xenakis Palimpsest 197910

Wild Light

Ensemble Plus-Minus

Bath Spa University

19:30, Thursday 26 May 2011
Bath Spa University (external link)
Newton St Loe
BA2 9BN Bath
United Kingdom

A concert for two pianos and live electronics including new works by composition students at Bath Spa University (external link).

Newton Armstrong Study in Tiled Light 20108
Michael Finnissy Wild Flowers 197410

Zeitungsausschnitte

Athelas New Music Festival

22:15, Monday 30 May 2011
Teater Republique (external link)
Østerfælled Torv 37
2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

Lore Lixenberg and Mark Knoop present a programme of songs by Hanns Eisler (external link) and Gerhard Stäbler (external link).

Hanns Eisler Zeitungsausschnitte 1925-2612
Gerhard Stäbler Spiegel 17/11 2011*5
Gerhard Stäbler Von Branntwein und Finsternissen 1992~2
Gerhard Stäbler Belfast Breakfast Songs 19965
Gerhard Stäbler Drei Lieder zu Gedichten von Gert Udo Jerns 1979-826
Gerhard Stäbler Die bange Nacht 19834
Gerhard Stäbler Nachtstück III 20067
Hanns Eisler Hollywooder Liederbuch (selections) 1942-4315

Too Hot to Händel

Athelas New Music Festival

22:15, Tuesday 31 May 2011
Teater Republique (external link)
Østerfælled Torv 37
2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

Squib-box (external link) perform an imaginary meeting between Jimi Hendrix and George Frideric Händel at the house in Brook Street, London where both musicians lived.

squib-box Too Hot to Händel 2010-1150

Chisenhale Art Club

20:00, Wednesday 1 June 2011
Chisenhale Dance Space (external link)
64-84 Chisenhale Road
E3 5QZ London
United Kingdom

Chisenhale Art Club (external link) is a monthly mixed bill of Live Art, New Music and Dance curated by Bryony Kimmings, Matthew Shlomowitz (external link) and Roberta Jean. In this edition, US composer Mark Applebaum (external link)’s work for three conductors and no players, will be presented by Gijs Kramers, Mark Knoop and Serge Vuille.

Mark Applebaum Tlön 19956

Apartment House 1

Musiikin Aika - Time of Music

19:00, Friday 8 July 2011
Chapel
Viitasaari
Finland

Apartment House (external link) perform experimental music at the Time of Music (external link) festival.

Elisabeth S Clarke Between Words 2011*
Egidija Medekšaitė piece for Apartment House 2011*
Anton Lukoszevieze Dirty Angels 2011*
Arturas Bumšteinas Nocturne opus 37 2011*
Tim Parkinson trio with objects 2008%
Amnon Wolman Dead End 1996%14

XXX_Live_Nude_Girls!!!

Apartment House

Musiikin Aika - Time of Music

19:00, Saturday 9 July 2011
City Hall
Viitasaari
Finland

Apartment House (external link) perform video-theatre pieces at the Time of Music (external link) festival.

Jennifer Walshe XXX_Live_Nude_Girls!!! 2003%
George Maciunas Music for Everyman 1961%

Letter Piece Company

Chisenhale Dance Space

20:00, Thursday 14 July 2011
Chisenhale Dance Space (external link)
64-84 Chisenhale Road
E3 5QZ London
United Kingdom

The Letter Piece Company (external link) presents quartets for dancer and musicians.

Shlomowitz/Anaraki Five Finger Discount 201020
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 201020

Letter Piece Company

Soundwaves Festival

20:00, Friday 15 July 2011
Sallis Benney Theatre (external link)
58-67 Grand Parade
BN2 0JY Brighton
United Kingdom

The Letter Piece Company (external link) present quartets for dancer and musicians at the Soundwaves Festival (external link).

Shlomowitz/Anaraki Five Finger Discount 201020
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 201020

The End of Time

Linari Classic Festival

19:30, Wednesday 27 July 2011
Certosa di Pontignano
Castelnuovo Tuscany
Italy

Robert Schumann String Quartet opus 41/1 184230
Richard Wagner Wesendonck Lieder 1857-5815
Olivier Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps 1941

Mixed Chamber

Linari Classic Festival

19:30, Friday 29 July 2011
Pieve di Sant’Appiano (external link)
Barberino Val d’Elsa
Tuscany
Italy

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio No 4 B flat major opus 11 1798
Johannes Brahms Zwei Gesänge opus 91 188412
Claude Debussy Syrinx 19133
Benjamin Britten Phantasy 193213
Ottorino Respighi Il Tramonto 191417

Rhapsody in Blue

Linari Classic Festival

19:30, Sunday 31 July 2011
Laticastelli (external link)
Rapolano Terme Tuscany
Italy

Sergei Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque no. 1 189215
Francis Poulenc Sextuor for piano & winds 194518
Astor Piazzolla Grand Tango 198210
Malcolm Arnold Quintet opus 7 194412
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue 192416

Repeat Music

Plus-Minus

OutHear

20:00, Monday 10 October 2011
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Repetition invites us to focus on details that usually fly by. It draws our attention to the “grain of the sound”, so we observe minute deviation and extremely slow change, or fall into a trance-like state. This programme explores different approaches to repetition in music. Although none of the music is literally repetitive, these diverse works share common interests, in creating music out of an extreme economy of means and opening up different kinds of listening environments.

Book tickets at the Kings Place website. (external link)

Aldo Clementi Madrigale 19799
Morton Feldman Bass Clarinet and Percussion 198120
Simon Steen-Andersen Study for string instrument #1 20075
Alvin Lucier I am sitting in a room 196915
Philip Glass Music in Contrary Motion 196912

Opera for Solo Piano

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

15:00, Thursday 24 November 2011
Phipps Hall
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate
HD1 3DH Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Trond Reinholdtsen (external link) continues his ongoing project “The Norwegian Opra” with a new work for Mark Knoop. Acknowledging the precedents of Marlowe, Goethe and Thomas Mann, Faust describes a Modernist-Faustian apocalypse leading to a decadent (but necessary) theatricalisation of the contemporary piano sonata. Only theory can help us now.

Book via the hcmf// website (external link).

Trond Reinholdtsen Faust, or The Decline of Western Music 2011*45

Beyond Xenakis

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

13:00, Friday 25 November 2011
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Xenakis produced four mature works for solo piano, three of which feature in this recital: the “symbolic” music of Herma, through the expansive, chaotic Mists, to his brief tribute to Ravel. Prins (external link)’ new work for piano, midi-keyboard and video projection forces a rethink of reality, while Kreidler (external link) fills the hall with multiple transformed instruments and Ablinger (external link)’s transparent lines define their own listening space.

Book via the hcmf// website (external link).

Iannis Xenakis Herma 196110
Johannes Kreidler Klavierstück 5 200512
Iannis Xenakis Mists 198012
Stefan Prins Piano Hero #1 20119
Stefan Prins Piano Hero #2 2011, rev 2012*6
Peter Ablinger 6 Linien 20046
Iannis Xenakis à R. (Hommage à Ravel) 19873

Plus-Minus at City

City University

19:00, Tuesday 29 November 2011
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Aldo Clementi Madrigale 19799
Simon Steen-Andersen Study for string instrument #1 20075
Alex Hills 5 Resonance Studies 2011*10
Iannis Xenakis Mists 198012
Newton Armstrong Too Slow, for Milton 2011*3
Johannes Kreidler Klavierstück 5 200512
Iannis Xenakis Dikhthas 197914

In context

Image Sonores XIII

20:30, Friday 16 December 2011
Ancienne Église Saint-André
place du Marché
Liège
Belgium

As part of the 13th festival of live electronics organised by the Centre Henri Pousseur (external link), Mark Knoop performs selections from Peter Ablinger (external link)’s ongoing cycle Voices and Piano, including two new Voices written for the occasion; Newton Armstrong (external link)’s new work for piano and live electronics; and Matthew Shlomowitz (external link)’s 2010 piece for piano and sampler keyboard.

Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-*
Newton Armstrong Three Windows 2009-1012
Newton Armstrong Too Slow, for Milton 20113
Matthew Shlomowitz Popular Contexts 2010¤30

Building Instruments

SPEEC Symposium Concert

20:00, Friday 6 January 2012
Jacqueline du Pre Music Building (external link)
St Hilda’s College
OX4 1DY Oxford
United Kingdom

The SPEEC symposium presents a concert of works by Matthew Shlomowitz (external link), Peter Ablinger (external link) and Sam Hayden performed by Mieko Kanno and Mark Knoop.

Sam Hayden Adaptations 201115
Matthew Shlomowitz Popular Contexts 201030
Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-
Sam Hayden schismatics 200712

A to Zzz

Vooruit

22:00, Thursday 16 February 2012
22:00, Friday 17 February 2012
Vooruit Minard (external link)
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23
9000 Ghent
Belgium

The Letter Piece Company (external link) present a new show, this time about the entire alphabet.

Shlomowitz/Anaraki A to Zzz 2011-12*60

Absolutt Piano

Borealis Festival

11:30, Friday 16 March 2012
Prøvesalen (external link)
Griegakademiet
Lars Hilles Gate 3 Bergen
Norway

Mark Knoop in discussion with Michael Finnissy (external link) before the first performance of the composer’s new collection of Chorale Preludes which set, in Finnissy’s unique way, Norwegian spiritual folk-songs and late 18th century American hymn-tunes.

Michael Finnissy Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) 2012*33

Fight the intellectual profiteers!

Ensemble Plus-Minus

Borealis Festival

20:30, Friday 16 March 2012
Logen Teater (external link)
Øvre Ole Bulls plass 6
5012 Bergen
Norway

Alongside two classic works by politically outspoken German composer Nicolaus A. Huber, Plus-Minus (external link) also present a number of works by Huber’s provocative young countryman, Johannes Kreidler (external link), whose Borealis commission Money will be premiered at this concert.

Nicolaus A. Huber Beds and Brackets 199018
Johannes Kreidler Slot Machines 20097
Johannes Kreidler Money 2012*8
Johannes Kreidler Charts Music 2009, arr 20123
Johannes Kreidler Untitled performance 3 201110
Nicolaus A. Huber Harakiri 1971, arr 201216

Last Breath

Borealis Festival

18:00, Sunday 18 March 2012
Hotel Gran Terminus (external link)
Zander Kaaesgate 6
5015 Bergen
Norway

There’s an austere but nonetheless outrageously delinquent humour to much of Reinholdtsen (external link)’s work, which hits home with greater impact than most attempts to deal seriously with the possibilities and limitations of art and the people who make it. But in presenting Faust, or the Decline of Western Music, is Borealis all but calling in the bailiffs? Will music’s decline inevitably precede its fall?

Trond Reinholdtsen Faust, or The Decline of Western Music 201145

Choral Preludes

Voix à la Maison du Peuple

19:45, Saturday 21 April 2012
Maison du Peuple (external link)
37 Parvis de Saint-Gilles
1060 Brussels
Belgium

Mark Knoop presents an intriguing mix of repertoire, from Xenakis’s arborescences to Ablinger (external link)’s blending of well-known voices with the piano sound and Bryn Harrison (external link)’s mesmeric miniature. A new work by Michael Finnissy (external link) references Bach and Brahms.

Iannis Xenakis Mists 198012
Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-
Bryn Harrison Quietly Rising 20083
Michael Finnissy Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) 2012¤33

Repurpose

Squib-box

19:30, Tuesday 1 May 2012
The Forge (external link)
3-7 Delancey St
NW1 7NL London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop presents new works which each take existing musical material as their starting point. From de la Cour (external link)’s cut-up techniques, through Beaudoin (external link)’s microtiming, to Finnissy (external link)’s Brahms-style choral preludes based on Norwegian and American folk songs, each work proposes an intriguing method of negotiating with the past. Tickets available on the door, or book here (external link).

Richard Beaudoin nach Webern, nach Pollini 2010*8
Richard Beaudoin The Artist and his Model I—la fille floutée 2010*9
Richard Beaudoin Now anything can hang at any angle 2011*2
Adam de la Cour Piano piece 10 2011-12*20
Michael Finnissy Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) 201233

Fremdarbeit

Scenatet

Spor Festival

20:00, Thursday 10 May 2012
Granhøj Dans (external link)
Klosterport 6
8000 Århus
Denmark

Mark Knoop joins Scenatet (external link) in a portrait concert of Johannes Kreidler (external link).

Johannes Kreidler Outsourcing/Fremdarbeit 200923
Johannes Kreidler Charts Music 2009, arr 20123
Johannes Kreidler Study for piano, audio and video 20116
Johannes Kreidler Money 20128

Xenakis 90th birthday

Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium

15:30, Sunday 27 May 2012
Basil Jones Orchestral Hall
140 Grey St
South Bank Brisbane Queensland
Australia

A celebration of the 90th anniversary of Iannis Xenakis’s birth with Ben Marks trombone, Tristram Williams trumpet, Graeme Jennings violin, and Mark Knoop piano, alongside students from the Queensland Conservatorium.

Iannis Xenakis Mists 198012
Iannis Xenakis Akea 198613
Iannis Xenakis Keren 19867
Iannis Xenakis Dikhthas 197914
Iannis Xenakis Eonta 1963-6420

Artificial Environments

Out Hear

20:00, Monday 18 June 2012
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Luigi Nono manipulated recordings of the piano, placing them alongside the live instrument to create an original and compelling sound world; Joanna Bailie (external link) conjures an imagined situation; Newton Armstrong (external link) explores the interior detail of the instrument’s unique acoustic; Stefan Prins (external link) adds video, pitting two pianos against each other.

Stefan Prins Piano Hero #1 20119
Stefan Prins Piano Hero #2 2011, rev 20126
Newton Armstrong making one leaf transparent and then another 2012*12
Joanna Bailie Artificial Environment No.8 2012-13*18
Luigi Nono .....sofferte onde serene... 197614

Claude, Rick, Mike and John

The Red Hedgehog

16:00, Sunday 19 August 2012
The Red Hedgehog (external link)
255-257 Archway Road
N6 5BS Highgate London
United Kingdom

Carl Rosman (external link) and Mark Knoop present an afternoon of old and new music for clarinet and piano, culminating in a rarely heard version of Brahms’ clarinet quintet for clarinet and piano.

Claude Debussy Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano 19108
Richard Beaudoin The Artist and his Model I—la fille floutée 20109
Richard Beaudoin The Artist and his Model IV—la tradition française 2011*9
Michael Finnissy Marilyn, Brian, Mike and the cats 20046
Johannes Brahms Duo für Clarinette und Pianoforte nach dem Quintett opus 115 1891/189330

Letter Piece Company

Open Day: Sound Factory Feest

17:00, Sunday 9 September 2012
Concertgebouw Brugge (external link)
‘t Zand 34
8000 Brugge
Belgium

The Letter Piece Company (external link) presents two quartets for dancer and musicians.

Shlomowitz/Anaraki Five Finger Discount 201020
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 201020

Sound Source

Plus-Minus

OutHear

20:00, Monday 15 October 2012
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Plus Minus presents an international programme of works focused on the ways and means of producing sound and harnessing its resonance. Sound sources include rice grains falling onto a variety of different surfaces, two amplified performers using extended vocal techniques, a piano modified by live electronics, and almost nothing: the “sound” of background noise.

A new work by Alex Hills especially written for the group joins music from experimental American composer Michael Pisaro (external link), the young Dane Simon Steen-Andersen (external link) and Italians Fausto Romitelli and Agostino Di Scipio (external link).

Fausto Romitelli Trash TV Trance 200210
Simon Steen-Andersen In Her Frown 2007, rev 20109
Alex Hills After and Before 2011-12*20
Agostino Di Scipio Audible EcoSystemics n.3a (Background Noise Study) 2004-0510
Michael Pisaro ricefall 200418

A to Zzz

Letter Piece Company

Transit Festival

22:00, Friday 26 October 2012
15:30, Saturday 27 October 2012
Leuven STUK (external link)
Naamsestraat 96
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

The Letter Piece Company (external link) present their new show, this time about the entire alphabet.

Shlomowitz/Anaraki A to Zzz 2011-1260

Plus-Minus at City

City University

19:00, Tuesday 30 October 2012
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop and guest cellist Séverine Ballon (external link) present new solos and duos alongside two modernist masterpieces.

Rebecca Saunders study - work in progress 20126
Andrew Noble you and me and the market makes three 20128
Nicolaus A. Huber Beds and Brackets 199018
Mauro Lanza La bataille de Caresme et de Charnage 201214
Bernd Alois Zimmermann Intercomunicazione 196721

Time in the new music

17:15, Thursday 8 November 2012
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall (external link)
02138 Cambridge MA
United States of America

Mark Knoop, alongside composer Richard Beaudoin (external link), will present a performance and lecture about compositional perspectives on the experience of time in recent music.

Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-$
Richard Beaudoin The Artist and his Model I—la fille floutée 20109
Elliott Carter First Diversion 19996
Richard Beaudoin Étude d’un prélude IV—Black Wires 20097
Laurence Crane Piano Piece No.23 “Ethiopian Distance Runners” 2009$22

From zerO

Durham Musicon

19:30, Saturday 1 December 2012
Durham University (external link)
Durham
United Kingdom

As part of from zerO, a five-day festival celebrating John Cage’s 100th anniversary, Lucy Schaufer and Mark Knoop present Erik Satie’s Socrate, then join the Ives Ensemble for Music for Seven.

Erik Satie Socrate — Drame Symphonique 191830
John Cage Music for Seven 1984, rev 198730

The Music of Making Strange

20:00, Monday 14 January 2013
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Recent chamber music by Alex Hills much of which is an exploration of Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of Ostranenie, or art as “making strange”. Performers include Lucy Railton (external link), Aisha Orazbayeva, Serge Vuille, Roderick Chadwick and Natalie Raybould.

Alex Hills Alles 2012*4
Alex Hills Ostranenie 2009, rev 201210

Off record

19:00, Sunday 17 February 2013
Berlin
Germany

Two new works derived from exact transcriptions of recordings.

Peter Ablinger Piano and Record 2012*25
Richard Beaudoin Étude d’un prélude XI—four28 2009*25

Piano Transformed

Unerhörte Musik

20:30, Tuesday 19 February 2013
BKA Theater (external link)
Mehringdamm 34
Berlin
Germany

Four composers transform and extend the familiar piano sound in vastly different ways. Stefan Prins (external link) pits the instrument against its own virtual avatar while Newton Armstrong (external link) subtly expands its harmonies. Johannes Kriedler’s work uses audio and video playback as disruptive partners to the live performer, and Joanna Bailie (external link) creates new environments mediated by the piano.

Stefan Prins Piano Hero #1 20119
Stefan Prins Piano Hero #2 2011, rev 20126
Newton Armstrong making one leaf transparent and then another 201212
Johannes Kreidler Studie für Klavier, Audio- und Videozuspielung 20116
Joanna Bailie Artificial Environment No.8 2012-1318

Faust

The Well-Tempered Everyday: Vinterlydfestivalen

21:00, Friday 1 March 2013
Levinsalen, Norges musikkhøgskole (external link)
Slemdalsveien 11
0302 Oslo
Norway

Trond Reinholdtsen (external link) continues his ongoing project “The Norwegian Opra” with a work for Mark Knoop. Acknowledging the precedents of Marlowe, Goethe and Thomas Mann, Faust describes a Modernist-Faustian apocalypse leading to a decadent (but necessary) theatricalisation of the contemporary piano sonata. Only theory can help us now.

Trond Reinholdtsen Faust, or The Decline of Western Music 201145

Changing the context

The Well-Tempered Everyday: Vinterlydfestivalen

16:00, Saturday 2 March 2013
Levinsalen, Norges musikkhøgskole (external link)
Slemdalsveien 11
0302 Oslo
Norway

Matthew Shlomowitz Popular Contexts 201030
Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude & Fugue in C# minor BWV 849 172210
Joanna Bailie Artificial Environment No.8 2012-1318

Åpningskonsert

Borealis Festival

19:00, Wednesday 6 March 2013
Bir Avfallsenergi (external link)
Rådalen
Norway

Mark Knoop performs a Øyvind Torvund’s new work for harpsichord and electronics in the Borealis Festival (external link) opening concert.

Øyvind Torvund A house and a melody 2013*15

Narayana’s Koeien

Letter Piece Company

15:00, Sunday 10 March 2013
Geel Cultural Centre
Geel
Belgium

The Letter Piece Company (external link) play an afternoon family concert at the Geel Cultural Centre.

Shlomowitz/Anaraki Mixed Doubles 201020
Tom Johnson Narayana’s Cows 198916
Matthew Shlomowitz Letter Piece #3 (Australia, Bolton, Clinton, Dachshund and Echinacea) 20085

New Propositions

Out Hear

20:00, Monday 18 March 2013
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom

Plus Minus presents a concert of works tracing the ensemble’s unique range of interests — from alternative notions of music theatre through to the micro-investigation of sound and high-concept approaches to contemporary music-making. Two UK premières by Jennifer Walshe (external link) and Joanna Bailie (external link) sit alongside new pieces especially written for the group by Newton Armstrong (external link) and James Weeks (external link).

Newton Armstrong Nature Pieces 2013*15
Joanna Bailie Artificial Environments Nos.1–5 201120
James Weeks Looping Busker Music 2013*15
Jennifer Walshe same person/not the same person 200724

Faust

London Ear Festival

21:00, Saturday 23 March 2013
The Cello Factory
33-34 Cornwall Road
SE1 8JT London
United Kingdom

Trond Reinholdtsen (external link) continues his ongoing project “The Norwegian Opra” with a work for Mark Knoop. Acknowledging the precedents of Marlowe, Goethe and Thomas Mann, Faust describes a Modernist-Faustian apocalypse leading to a decadent (but necessary) theatricalisation of the contemporary piano sonata. Only theory can help us now.

Trond Reinholdtsen Faust, or The Decline of Western Music 201145

brumaires

Leeds Contemporary Music Weekend

19:30, Saturday 20 April 2013
Clothworkers Centenary Hall (external link)
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT Leeds Yorkshire
United Kingdom

A programme of work for two pianos, percussion solo, and piano and percussion. Bartók’s major work is the main reference point for the concert, representing an interest in rethinking the percussive character of the piano by adding percussion to create an innovative sound world. Ferneyhough’s explosive work examines further ways of extending the sonata form to its expressive limits while Dillon (external link)’s idiosyncratic writing reflects his interests in a lyrical music derived from the piano resonances themselves. Zaldua (external link)’s work employs the full quartet to create highly colourful music performed as if by a singular instrument while Shlomowitz (external link)’ solo completes the large range of characters by examining the existential relationship between the performer and a hi-hat.

Ensemble: Ian Pace (external link), Mark Knoop, Nick Reed, Tenley Martin, Alistair Zaldua.

James Dillon black/nebulae 199512
Matthew Shlomowitz Hi hat and Me 20105
Alistair Zaldua brumaires 2008/0915
Brian Ferneyhough Sonata for Two Pianos 196614
Béla Bartók Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 193724

Songs about words

13:00, Monday 22 April 2013
Turner Sims (external link)
Salisbury Road
SO17 1BJ Southampton
United Kingdom

Renowned contemporary performers Juliet Fraser (external link) (soprano) and Mark Knoop (piano) present a programme of experimental song including works by Mauricio Kagel, Charles Ives, Laurence Crane, and the newly-commissioned cycle Songs about words and about the pleasure of misery by Matthew Shlomowitz (external link).

Charles Ives selected songs
Mauricio Kagel Rrrrrrr… 19829
Laurence Crane Tour de France Statistics 1903–2003 20045
Mauricio Kagel MM 51 19765
Matthew Shlomowitz Songs about words and about the pleasure of misery 2013*20

Songs about words

20:00, Thursday 25 April 2013
The Forge (external link)
3-7 Delancey St
NW1 7NL London
United Kingdom

Renowned contemporary performers Juliet Fraser (external link) (soprano) and Mark Knoop (piano) present a programme of experimental song including works by Mauricio Kagel, Charles Ives, Laurence Crane, and the newly-commissioned cycle Songs about words and about the pleasure of misery by Matthew Shlomowitz (external link).

Charles Ives selected songs
Mauricio Kagel Rrrrrrr… 19829
Laurence Crane Tour de France Statistics 1903–2003 20045
Mauricio Kagel MM 51 19765
Matthew Shlomowitz Songs about words and about the pleasure of misery 201320

brumaires

19:30, Saturday 27 April 2013
Great Hall, Goldsmiths University (external link)
Lewisham Way, New Cross
SE14 6NW London
United Kingdom

A programme of work for two pianos, percussion solo, and piano and percussion. Bartók’s major work is the main reference point for the concert, representing an interest in rethinking the percussive character of the piano by adding percussion to create an innovative sound world. Ferneyhough’s explosive work examines further ways of extending the sonata form to its expressive limits while Dillon (external link)’s idiosyncratic writing reflects his interests in a lyrical music derived from the piano resonances themselves. Zaldua (external link)’s work employs the full quartet to create highly colourful music performed as if by a singular instrument while Shlomowitz (external link)’ solo completes the large range of characters by examining the existential relationship between the performer and a hi-hat.

Ensemble: Ian Pace (external link), Mark Knoop, Nick Reed, Tenley Martin, Alistair Zaldua.

James Dillon black/nebulae 199512
Matthew Shlomowitz Hi hat and Me 20105
Alistair Zaldua brumaires 2008/0915
Brian Ferneyhough Sonata for Two Pianos 196614
Béla Bartók Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 193724

A to B

Plus-Minus at City

18:00, Tuesday 21 May 2013
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

A concert exploring the possibilities created from interaction between live performance and digital technology. Steen­Andersen’s work turns a sonic microscope on the voice, amplifying and re-contextualising phonemes into musical phrases while Ablinger (external link) transcribes a the microvariations of a blank vinyl record for solo piano. Prins (external link) pits the live performer against a virtual avatar, blending the acoustic and digital together in a new reality. In Rodgers’ piece, a hands-on exploration of the sonic possibilities of percussion is captured and transformed by live sampling, the electronic processing enhancing and augmenting the live performance.

With Serge Vuille, percussion.

Please note 6:00pm start time!

Simon Steen-Andersen In Her Frown 2007, rev 20109
Peter Ablinger Piano and Record 201225
Stefan Prins Piano Hero #1 20119
Stefan Prins Piano Hero #2 2011, rev 20126
Georgia Rodgers A to B 201020

Copies, casts, replicas

16:00, Friday 7 June 2013
Shaw Library (external link)
Old Building, London School of Economics
WC2A 2AE London
United Kingdom

As part of an LSE symposium discussing issues relating to copying and copyright, Mark Knoop presents a recital including recent works by Richard Beaudoin (external link).

Johann Sebastian Bach Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt BWV637, arr Ferruccio Busoni 17133
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - How long has this been going on? 1975-884
Richard Beaudoin The Artist and his Model I—la fille floutée 20109
Johann Sebastian Bach Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt — Fuga BWV705, arr Ferruccio Busoni 17084
Michael Finnissy Gershwin Arrangements - Embraceable you 1975-884
Aldo Clementi Blues (Fantasie su Frammenti di Thelonius Monk) 20015
Richard Beaudoin Now anything can hang at any angle 20112

Patterns

City Summer Sounds

19:00, Monday 24 June 2013
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Morton Feldman (external link)’s 1981 work Patterns in a Chromatic Field creates its own musical context, setting aside conceptions of rhythm and harmony to work instead with the raw materials of duration and pitch. Influenced by late Feldman, Georgia Rodgers’ new work for cello and electronics explores repetition as a means of achieving stillness, examining the interaction between sonic spaces.

With Séverine Ballon (external link), cello.

Georgia Rodgers late lines 2013*18
Morton Feldman Patterns in a Chromatic Field 198180

The Protagonists

Arnolfini

20:00, Friday 19 July 2013
Arnolfini (external link)
16 Narrow Quay
BS1 4QA Bristol
United Kingdom

As part of the opening weekend of Yorgos Sapountzis’s exhibition The Protagonists, Øyvind Torvund creates a work for diverse ensemble. For more information see the Arnolfini website (external link).

Øyvind Torvund The Protagonists 2013*20

LCMF: New Complexity and Noise

London Contemporary Music Festival

19:30, Friday 2 August 2013
Bold Tendencies (external link)
Level 7, Multi Storey Car Park, 95a Rye Lane
SE15 9ST London
United Kingdom

LCMF2013 brings together music associated with the New Complexity school of composition and noise-based improvisation. Also featuring performances by Anthony Pateras, Steve Noble and Russell Haswell.

Michael Finnissy English Country-Tunes 1977/1982-8540

LCMF: Keyboard Breakdown

London Contemporary Music Festival

19:30, Sunday 4 August 2013
Bold Tendencies (external link)
Level 7, Multi Storey Car Park, 95a Rye Lane
SE15 9ST London
United Kingdom

As the final event of LCMF2013, Jane Chapman harpsichord, Leon Michener electric organ, and Mark Knoop piano, perform a condensed history of keyboard music from 1746–2012.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo in A minor K.511 178711
Franz Liszt Unstern! S.208 18814
Adam de la Cour Beat Me 20075
Arnold Schoenberg Drei Klavierstücke opus 11 190912
Morton Feldman Intermission 5 19524
Leo Ornstein Suicide in an Airplane 19184
Lauren Redhead i am but one small instrument 20125
Iannis Xenakis Evryali 197311
Philip Corner Piano Activities 196220

Harakiri

Plus-Minus Ensemble

TRANSIT Festival

16:00, Sunday 27 October 2013
Leuven STUK (external link)
Naamsestraat 96
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

Plus-Minus Ensemble present Peter Ablinger (external link)’s settings of the voices of Jacques Brel, Forough Farrokzhad and Ilya Prigogine. New works by Guy De Bièvre (external link) and Bernhard Lang (external link) link with the ensemble’s experimental aesthetics. With his controversial Harakiri it seemed as if Nicolaus A. Huber was committing harakiri himself — since the very sparse composition didn’t satisfy the commissioning party, it was years before the piece had its premiere.

Nicolaus A. Huber Harakiri 1971, arr 201216
Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-*
Guy de Bièvre Time Zones 2013*10
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 2013*20

quasi a due

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

13:00, Wednesday 20 November 2013
Phipps Hall
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate
HD1 3DH Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Classic and recent experimental music for piano duet and two pianos, exploring activity and interactivity. Provoking, affecting, ignoring, subverting the norms of chamber music; actions unseen, but not unheard? Curiosity and surprise result from investigation — sounds the result of anomalous relationships.

Laurence Crane Piano Duets 1990-918
Peter Ablinger Ohne Titel 1-10 20058
Kunsu Shim quasi a due 200915
Christian Wolff Duet I 19605
John Cage Winter Music 195715

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Kämmer Klang

20:00, Tuesday 26 November 2013
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents new works written for the the ensemble.

Johannes Kreidler Money 20128
Newton Armstrong Nature Pieces 201315
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 201320

Environments

University of Huddersfield

19:30, Thursday 5 December 2013
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop presents music which challenges our conceptions of the listening environment.

Joanna Bailie Artificial Environment No.8 2012-1318
Chikako Morishita soot 2013*4
Peter Ablinger Piano and Record 201225
Pedro Alvarez VER 2013*16
Nicolaus A. Huber Beds and Brackets 199018

Voices in context

19:00, Sunday 19 January 2014
Listeners (external link)
Bayerische Straße 8
Berlin
Germany

A hauskonzert and launch of a new CD on the Sub Rosa label.

Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-
Matthew Shlomowitz Popular Contexts 2 201025

Record in context

20:00, Monday 20 January 2014
Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (external link)
Harvestehuder Weg 12
Hamburg
Germany

Peter Ablinger Piano and Record 201225
Matthew Shlomowitz Popular Contexts 2 201025

Mirrors

The Tetley

19:00, Saturday 8 February 2014
The Tetley (external link)
Hunslet Road
LS10 1JQ Leeds
United Kingdom

An evening of live music and performance curated by Sam Belinfante and musicians Mark Knoop and Neil Luck, in response to the exhibition “The Reversing Machine”.

The Michael Harrison Memorial Concert

Kettle’s Yard

12:15, Sunday 16 February 2014
Kettle’s Yard (external link)
Castle Street
CB3 0AQ Cambridge
United Kingdom

Anton Lukoszevieze, cello, and Mark Knoop. piano perform world premières of five new works especially written as tributes to the late Michael Harrison, former Director of Kettle’s Yard, by each of the composers he appointed as Kettle’s Yard New Music Associates: John Woolrich, Camberwell Composers Collective, Richard Baker, Kenneth Hesketh, Anton Lukoszevieze and Stephen Montague.

Cage Machaut

EXAUDI

13:10, Friday 28 February 2014
Barber Concert Hall (external link)
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT Birmingham
United Kingdom

One of the UK’s leading vocal ensembles, EXAUDI (external link) is renowned for varied programming and performances of both early and contemporary repertoire. This engaging vocal consort has established a commissioning scheme to support young composers and, as part of their visit they will be giving a workshop for composition students at the University following today’s concert, which features the music of John Cage (external link) and Guillaume de Machaut.

John Cage Ear for EAR 19835
John Cage The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs 19422
John Cage A Flower 19504
John Cage Nowth Upon Nacht 19841
John Cage The Seasons 194715
Guillaume de Machaut Ballades (selected)
Guillaume de Machaut Four Virelais (arr. James Weeks)

A to Zzz

Concertgebouw Brugge

11:45, Sunday 2 March 2014
Concertgebouw Brugge (external link)
‘t Zand 34
8000 Brugge
Belgium

As part of “Notation Happening”, curated by Arne Deforce, the Letter Piece Company (external link) present A to Zzz.

Shlomowitz/Anaraki A to Zzz 2011-1260

Kämmer Klang

20:00, Tuesday 4 March 2014
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Kämmer Klang returns for a first 2014 concert in March, with two iconic, iconoclastic pieces by legendary Hungarian composer György Ligeti, Mysteries of the Macabre and Musica Ricercata, the haunting piano tune featured in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, accompanied by Sky-me, Type-me, for four megaphoned voices by Jagoda Szmytka (external link), a young and up-and-coming Polish composer based in Germany. The night will end with a session of free improvisation with Jamie Coleman, Ross Lambert and Guillaume Viltard.

György Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre 1974-978
Jagoda Szmytka Sky-me, type-me 20117

The Last Lighthouse Keepers

Borealis Festival

21:00, Friday 21 March 2014
17:00, Saturday 22 March 2014
Sardinen USF Verftet (external link)
Georgernes Verft 12
Bergen
Norway

A black box. One percussionist. One pianist. A Foley artist and an actor. The audience in the centre. The Last Lighthouse Keepers is an unusual and surrealist experience, where the beam of an imaginery lighthouse switches on and off all that is happening, defining the stage. The moment you repeat an action, you start a ritual, as does the turning light above the audience, creating repetition and trance.

François Sarhan The Last Lighthouse Keepers 2014*50

For John Cage

Cafe OTO

20:30, Tuesday 25 March 2014
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Launch night for violinist Aisha Orazbayeva’s second album. “The Hand Gallery” is an album experience dedicated to the process of taking the violin sound apart and putting it back together again, and offers music by Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, Elvis Presley, John Cale and Aisha Orazbayeva. Alongside a selection of music from the album, the evening will also feature a special performance of violin strings bowed by spinning LPs.

Morton Feldman For John Cage 198275

James Saunders Portrait

City University

19:00, Tuesday 8 April 2014
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) present a concert of recent work by one of their first ever collaborators, the British experimental composer James Saunders. This concert will include pieces investigating the sonic properties of everyday materials, musical cueing systems that explore group behaviour, and a new work especially written by James for the occasion.

James Saunders Everybody doing what everybody else is doing 2013*10
James Saunders with paper 2006/08, 2009-8
James Saunders So many territories 2014*15
James Saunders Things whole and not whole 2011, rev 201210
James Saunders Everybody do this 201410

Footsteps

Ухо

18:00, Sunday 13 April 2014
Mystetskyi Arsenal (external link)
Lavrska str, 10-12
Kyiv
Ukraine

A concert as part of the New Music Festival at the Book Arsenal in Kiev.

Laurence Crane Piano Piece No.23 “Ethiopian Distance Runners” 2009#22
Michael Finnissy Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) 2012#33
Claude Debussy Préludes Book 1 1909-1040

Create! Compose! Combine!

Spor Festival

20:00, Friday 9 May 2014
Godsbanen (external link)
Skovgaardsgade 3-5
8000 Århus
Denmark

Pieces from SPOR’s Call for Proposals 2014. Each year SPOR festival invites composers and sound artists from all over the world to submit proposals for the coming festival and each year SPOR receives a wide range of interesting projects, from works for ensemble and music theater pieces to sound installations. This year the jury has selected five very different works to be realized at SPOR 2014, four of them will be presented at this concert. All of the works invite the audience to take part in various ways, of which the first one takes us above ground...

David Bird Fields 20107
James Saunders you say what to do 2014*10
James Andean The Friedman Translations 2014*14
Jessie Marino Heartful bird, vivid and great in style 2014*15

Urban decay

Spor Festival

19:00, Sunday 11 May 2014
Granhøj Dans (external link)
Klosterport 6
8000 Århus
Denmark

SPOR presents together with the Danish ensemble SCENATET (external link) three new works by composers who all contribute to the new departure that has emerged in the past decade among the younger generation of Danish composers.

Juliana Hodkinson Angel View 201430
Simon Løffler D 2013*8
Christian Winther Christensen Nachtmusik 2010-11*8

LCMF: Marxist Chillwave

London Contemporary Music Festival

20:00, Tuesday 27 May 2014
Second Home
Britannia House, 68-80 Hanbury Street
E1 5JL London
United Kingdom

Music and global capitalism: for the artists featured in this programme, the interlacing of these two themes has been a central concern.

Also featuring performances by Fatima Al Qadiri and Leon Michener.

Johannes Kreidler Outsourcing/Fremdarbeit 200923
Luigi Nono .....sofferte onde serene... 197614
Cornelius Cardew Red Flag Prelude 19733

LCMF: A New History of Song

London Contemporary Music Festival

20:00, Friday 30 May 2014
Second Home
Britannia House, 68-80 Hanbury Street
E1 5JL London
United Kingdom

In this night we reimagine the popular song and explore the limits of the voice. Includes music by Andrew Poppy, Georges Aperghis and Robert Ashley and performances by Josephine Foster, Lore Lixenberg and Jennifer Walshe.

Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-

LCMF: Italian Colourism

London Contemporary Music Festival

20:00, Sunday 1 June 2014
Second Home
Britannia House, 68-80 Hanbury Street
E1 5JL London
United Kingdom

In our final event we profile three Italians whose fixation with colour is by turns delicate, explosive and cataclysmic. With Quartetto Prometeo and Michelangelo Pistoletto.

Domenico Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas
Salvatore Sciarrino Sonata V per pianoforte 199414

Contexts

kgnm

20:30, Monday 9 June 2014
Loft (external link)
Wissmannstr. 30
50823 Köln
Germany

New British music for piano and electronics. A presentation by composer Matthew Shlomowitz (external link) will take place at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln the following day, 10 June at 11:00.

Joanna Bailie Artificial Environment No.8 2012-1318
Newton Armstrong making one leaf transparent and then another 201212
Matthew Shlomowitz Popular Contexts 2 201025

Durations

City Summer Sounds

19:00, Tuesday 10 June 2014
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

City University Department of Music’s Ensemble-in-Residence, Plus Minus presents new works by student composers alongside some experimental classics.

Morton Feldman Durations 2 19604
Aldo Clementi Dedica 19984

Doppelpiano

City Summer Sounds

19:00, Thursday 12 June 2014
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Gwenaëlle Rouger and Mark Knoop present a programme of works for pianos and electronics with Newton Armstrong. Includes Michael Beil (external link)’s Doppel for two pianos, live video and audio.

Georg Friedrich Haas Ein Schattenspiel 200410
Ben Smith the ineluctable modality of the audible (Water Music) 2014*8
Georges Aperghis Dans le mur 200716
Georgia Rodgers cut it out 2014*10
Michael Beil Doppel 200912

From the Soundhouse

Royal College of Music

18:00, Friday 27 June 2014
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall (external link)
Royal College of Music
Prince Consort Road London
United Kingdom

From the Soundhouse is the RCM’s cutting-edge series mixing live performance and electronics. Concert also includes works by Kaija Saariaho, Luc Ferrari and Ruaidhri Mannion.

Michael Beil Doppel 200912

Contexts

music@villaromana

19:00, Saturday 4 October 2014
Villa Romana (external link)
Via Senese 68
50124 Florence
Italy

Mark Knoop performs alongside Alter Ego in this contemporary festival at the Villa Romana in Florence.

Matthew Shlomowitz Popular Contexts 2 201025
Matthew Shlomowitz Fast Medium Swing 200810
Newton Armstrong making one leaf transparent and then another 201212

Litterær kraftstasjon

Litteraturesymposiet Odda

19:00, Wednesday 8 October 2014
Lindehuset
Odda Smelteverk
Odda
Norway

Mark Knoop performs with Øyvind Skarbø at the opening event of the Odda Literature Festival.

James Saunders you say what to do 201410

Excès et Mesure

Contrechamps

20:00, Tuesday 14 October 2014
Studio Ernest-Ansermet
Passage de la Radio 2
1205 Genève
Switzerland

Frederic D’haene Hearing from nowhere — Part 3 2010-1125
Anton Webern Konzert opus 24 19348
Franck C Yeznikian Ruhig Schreitend, par immersion 2014*20
Anton Webern Symphonie opus 21 192810

NZ→UK

City University

19:00, Tuesday 21 October 2014
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Cellist Séverine Ballon (external link) and Mark Knoop present new and recent works by New Zealand composers.

Jeroen Speak Jung’s Shadow 2012*12
Jeroen Speak Shadow Aspect 2012*8
Dorothy Ker Rare Earth 20149
Dorothy Ker the history of rock 200810
John Croft ...du second infini 200015
John Croft la terra lagrimosa...una luce vermiglia 200615
Michael Norris Phospheni 2014*6

Faust

pgnm

18:00, Saturday 22 November 2014
Hochschule für Künste (external link)
Dechanatstraße 13-15
28195 Bremen
Germany

The second concert in pgnm’s 18th festival features Ensemble MAM (external link) and Mark Knoop.

Iannis Xenakis Concret PH 19583
Edgard Varèse Poème électronique 19589
Jagoda Szmytka inane prattle 201312
Trond Reinholdtsen Faust, or The Decline of Western Music 201145

Die Klavierübung

pgnm

20:30, Saturday 22 November 2014
Sendesaal Bremen (external link)
Bürgermeister-Spitta-Allee 45
28329 Bremen
Germany

The third concert in pgnm’s 18th festival includes performances by Nadar Ensemble (external link), Ensemble MAM (external link), and Mark Knoop.

Vladimir Gorlinsky Sun.Disc.Minotaurus 201013
Steven Kazuo Takasugi Die Klavierübung: movement 1 (version for piano and tape) 2007-09/2014*11
Steven Kazuo Takasugi Die Klavierübung: movements 3 & 4 (version for tape) 2007-0917
Thomas Hummel Sinaida Kowalenko 2014*12
Johannes Kreidler Der “Weg der Verzweiflung” (Hegel) ist der chromatische. 2011/1216

Feldman’s Pianos

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

13:00, Tuesday 25 November 2014
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Six works for between two and four pianists at between one and four pianos, all composed within a 10-year period by two composers at their most inquisitive stages of notational exploration.

Four infrequently performed works by Morton Feldman (external link), reflecting this most intuitive composer at possibly his most cerebral and abstruse, are performed alongside the very first two works in which Christian Wolff explored what was to become a unique, cryptic approach to music notation.

With Catherine Laws, Philip Thomas, John Tilbury and Mark Knoop.

Morton Feldman Piano Four Hands 19588
Morton Feldman Two Pieces for Three Pianos 196618
Christian Wolff Duo for Pianists I 19625
Morton Feldman Vertical Thoughts 1 19636
Christian Wolff Sonata for 3 Pianos 19575
Morton Feldman Piece for Four Pianos 195715

Focus Loops

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

16:00, Friday 28 November 2014
Phipps Hall
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate
HD1 3DH Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents a concert of works especially written for the group, including the premiere of Alexander Schubert (external link)’s Sensate Focus, alongside recent pieces by Bernhard Lang (external link) and James Weeks (external link). The programme features field recordings of street musicians, samples from a horror movie soundtrack, a synchronised light show and itchy loops.

James Weeks Looping Busker Music 201315
Alexander Schubert Sensate Focus 2014*18
Bernhard Lang DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X 201320

Memory

University of Huddersfield

18:45, Monday 1 December 2014
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Aisha Orazbayeva and Mark Knoop premiere Bryn Harrison (external link)’s measureless exploration of memory alongside Feldman (external link)’s contemplative duo.

Morton Feldman For John Cage 198275
Bryn Harrison Receiving the Approaching Memory 2011-12*40

Everything You Own

Kämmer Klang

20:30, Tuesday 2 December 2014
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus Minus features at the December edition of Kammer Klang. The night also includes Kit Downes performing organ works by Moondog.

Alexander Schubert Sensate Focus 201418
Peter Ablinger Instrumente und Rauschen 1997, 200818
Jennifer Walshe Everything You Own Has Been Taken To A Depot Somewhere 201310

The Incandescent Reality of the Earth’s Womb

Infancy, History & the Avant-Garde

12:30, Saturday 24 January 2015
Omnibus Clapham (external link)
1 Clapham Common Northside
SW4 0QW London
United Kingdom

Curated by Steve Potter (composer-performer) and Kélina Gotman (Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, King’s College London), the festival brings together musicians, performance poets, choreographers, and cultural theorists for a musically, textually, theatrically and intellectually rich day-and-a-half of events.

The works presented think through and embody extreme sensation, cries, screams, disregard for the bounds of ‘good taste’; excess, chaos, risk; and the flip-side: discipline, control, security. Toys, props; imitation, counter-imitation, mimesis; play, games; the politics of the family, the antinomy of heteronormativity and capitalism’s drive towards temporary relationships, ever-changing personalities, adaptability and rootlessness; work, value, sleep and sleep deprivation; altered states of consciousness; cuteness; lullabies.

Carl Rosman (external link), clarinet/voice and Mark Knoop, piano/keyboard. Full festival listing here (external link).

Adam de la Cour L’Exorcisme du Mômo 200820

For John Cage

City University

19:00, Tuesday 10 February 2015
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Characteristic works from two of the most individual and influential composers of the twentieth century. Webern’s concise precision is echoed and expanded 72 years later by the daring fluid architecture of Feldman (external link)’s duo.

Aisha Orazbayeva, violin and Mark Knoop, piano.

Anton Webern Vier Stücke opus 7 19105
Morton Feldman For John Cage 198275

Extensions

Goldsmiths

19:00, Saturday 21 February 2015
Deptford Town Hall (external link)
288-300 New Cross Road
SE14 6AF London
United Kingdom

As part of the Contemporary Music Research Unit’s conference: Compositional Aesthetics and the Political, Aisha Orazbayeva and Mark Knoop perform Spahlinger’s monumental duo. Also featuring the premiere of a new work by Caroline Lucas for piano and video.

Lauren Redhead i am but one small instrument 20125
Caroline Lucas 21 February 2015 2015*10
Mathias Spahlinger Extension 1979/8050

Beasts and Beauties

Kämmer Klang

20:30, Tuesday 3 March 2015
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Works by Beat Furrer (external link) and Georgia Rodgers feature in this edition of Kämmer Klang (external link) before a solo tuba improvisation set.

Performers: Juliet Fraser (external link), Mark Knoop and Oren Marshall.

Georgia Rodgers cut it out 201410
Beat Furrer voicelessness (the snow has no voice) 198610
Beat Furrer Aria 199914

CINESONICA

City University

19:00, Tuesday 17 March 2015
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

A concert exploring the relationships between sound, simulation and moving images, with a particular focus on embodied movement. Also includes works by Joseph Hyde, Simon Katan and Miguel Mera.

Michael Beil Mach Sieben 2000/201220

Piano / No Piano

Elke and Arno Morenz Collection

19:30, Thursday 19 March 2015
Elke and Arno Morenz Collection (external link)
Sybelstraße 62
10629 Berlin-Charlottenburg
Germany

A recital by Loré Lixenberg and Mark Knoop with the participation of the Lettrist performer Broutin curated by Frédéric Acquaviva (external link).

Frédéric Acquaviva O(e)uvre 19904
John Cage Etudes Boreales for piano solo 197818
John Cage 31’57.9864” for a pianist 195432
John Cage She is Asleep 19438
John Cage A Flower 19504
John Cage The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs 19422
John Cage Nowth Upon Nacht 19841
John Cage Aria + Fontana Mix + Concert for Piano 1958

Codex Purpureus

20:00, Sunday 29 March 2015
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

An evening of Salvatore Sciarrino (external link)’s string and piano trios, the London premiere of Bryn Harrison (external link)’s monumental violin and piano piece and a new violin duo by Alex Hills.

With Aisha Orazbayeva and Eloisa Fleur Thom violins, Jennifer Ames viola, Anton Lukoszevieze cello, and Mark Knoop piano.

Salvatore Sciarrino Codex Purpureus 198310
Alex Hills The Chromatic Sedition 20146
Salvatore Sciarrino Piano Trio no. 2 198715
Bryn Harrison Receiving the Approaching Memory 2011-1240

WeSpoke: Multitasking

Festival Mixtur

16:00, Sunday 26 April 2015
A Fabra I Coats (external link)
Carrer Sant Adrià, 20
08030 Barcelona
Spain

WeSpoke (external link): Mark Knoop and Serge Vuille perform at 2015 Festival Mixtur.

David Bird Fields 20107
James Saunders you say what to do 201410

Music and/as Process

CMRU @ Goldsmiths

18:00, Saturday 6 June 2015
Deptford Town Hall (external link)
288-300 New Cross Road
SE14 6AF London
United Kingdom

Bryn Harrison (external link) presents the Keynote Lecture of the Music and/as Process Third Annual Conference preceding a performance by Mark Knoop.

Bryn Harrison Vessels 2013

From across the Atlantic

Plus Minus

City Summer Sounds

19:00, Tuesday 9 June 2015
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Plus Minus presents an event exploring a range of experimental practices — from the theatrical to the microtonal — from four distinctive North American composers.

Steven Kazuo Takasugi Die Klavierübung: movement 1 (version for piano and tape) 2007-09/201411
Natacha Diels 2.5 Nightmares, for Jessie 201410
Steven Kazuo Takasugi Strange Autumn 2003/0418
Pauline Oliveros All Fours 10
James Tenney Critical Band 1988/200017

New Romantics

music we’d like to hear

19:30, Friday 3 July 2015
St Mary at Hill (external link)
Lovat Lane
EC3R 8EE London
United Kingdom

Much-loved series music we’d like to hear (external link) returns in 2015 with a concert of works for piano trio featuring Aisha Orazbayeva violin, Alice Purton cello and Mark Knoop piano.

Walter Zimmermann Ephemer 1977-8118
Klarenz Barlow 1981 19819
Mauricio Kagel Piano Trio no. 1 in three movements 198527

Plus Minus

Ultima

17:00, Friday 11 September 2015
Den Norske Opera & Ballett (external link)
Kirsten Flagstads Plass 1
0150 Oslo
Norway

Plus-Minus (external link) presents a concert of two genre-stretching pieces especially written for the group. Matthew Shlomowitz (external link)’s Lecture About Bad Music (2015), drawing on scholarship from a range of fields and employing musical demonstrations and recreations of psychological experiments, asks us to consider if a piece of music can be inherently bad, or whether such judgements are purely subjective. Alexander Schubert (external link)’s Sensate Focus (2014) on the other hand, is concerned with the interplay between sound and image, and adds light as a fifth performer to a quartet of musicians. Using strobing effects, Schubert explores issues of sampling and sensorial experience in both the audio and visual domains, and our ability to form continuities from discrete objects.

Alexander Schubert Sensate Focus 201418
Matthew Shlomowitz Lecture about Bad Music 2015*40

Fields/Machines

Cut and Splice

20:00, Friday 25 September 2015
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

This year’s Cut and Splice Festival at Cafe Oto, co-produced by Sound and Music, and BBC Radio 3, links the work of the pioneers of the sonic avant-garde to the trail-blazers of today and explores the relationships between music machines and the environment. Moving from the centre to the edges of music-making practices, from the last century to our own, the programme seeks to explore these dual radii of influence, that somehow overlap, create interference patterns and forming a fuzzy and yet compelling continuum on which the programmed works lie.

Michael Pisaro Fields have ears (1) 200820
Clara Iannotta The people here go mad. They blame the wind. 2013-1410
Henry Cowell Æolian Harp 19234
Simon Løffler b 201210

Space/Translation/Device

20:00, Saturday 26 September 2015
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Peter Ablinger Renate Fuczik 2006-26*1440
Mauro Lanza Regnum vegetabile 201320
James Saunders AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED DEVICES BEING TURNED ON AND OFF 2012
James Saunders like you and like you 2015*

Lecture about Bad Music

music@1pm

13:00, Monday 2 November 2015
Turner Sims (external link)
Salisbury Road
SO17 1BJ Southampton
United Kingdom

Plus Minus perform a lunchtime concert at Southampton University before a workshop with student composers.

Ben Jameson Construction in Metal 2015*11
Matthew Shlomowitz Lecture about Bad Music 201540

Words & Music 3

Durham Musicon

19:30, Sunday 8 November 2015
Durham University (external link)
Durham
United Kingdom

The final concert in the Musicon November festival features Mark Knoop performing a selection from Peter Ablinger (external link)’s ongoing cycle Voices and Piano. A simultaneous performance of solos from John Cage (external link)’s time series follows with Knoop, members of the Ives Ensemble and Damian Robson.

Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-
John Cage 45’ for a speaker 195445
John Cage 26’1.1499” for a string player 1953-5526
John Cage 27’10.554” for a percussionist 195627
John Cage 31’57.9864” for a pianist 195432
John Cage 34’46.776” for a pianist 195435

Endless Shrimp

Kammer Klang

20:00, Tuesday 1 December 2015
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

We Spoke presents work by Jessie Marino (external link) for two performers with objects, video and assorted instruments. The evening also features cellist Oliver Coates and video artist Lawrence Lek.

Jessie Marino Guillaume de Saint-Cloud suffers a violent dazzling 201513
Jessie Marino Ritual I 20114
Jessie Marino Endless Shrimp 20158

Five Ways to Kill Time

Plus Minus Ensemble

LCMF

19:00, Sunday 13 December 2015
Ambika P3 (external link)
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS London
United Kingdom

Time is stretched, bent and finally dissolved in Five Ways To Kill Time. Also featuring performances by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Tim Etchells / Aisha Orazbayeva, Ellen Fullman and Stephen O’Malle.

Bryn Harrison Repetitions in Extended Time 200843

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

Plus Minus Ensemble

LCMF

19:00, Wednesday 16 December 2015
Ambika P3 (external link)
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS London
United Kingdom

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home takes its name from a poem by Craig Raine that sought to re-see the world through bold acts of defamiliarisation. This night celebrates the Martianist turn in music, with an exploration of composers who have made the familiar fresh. Also works by Tino Sehgal, Helmut Lachenmann, Christian Kesten, Andrew Hamilton, Dieter Schnebel, Hanna Hartman (external link) and Islam Chipsy & EEK.

Øyvind Torvund Untitled School/Mud Jam/Campfire Tunes 201425

Requiem for Reality

LCMF

19:00, Thursday 17 December 2015
Ambika P3 (external link)
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop performs two solos as part of this examination of Post-Internet Art, sometimes labelled the New Aesthetic. Whatever the name, there’s no doubt that the internet has scrambled the way we think, see and listen. Yet if art has placed this new paradigm at its heart, we are only now beginning to distil what it means for musical composition. Also performances by Felicita, James Ferraro , Nick Goodwin, Neele Hülcker and Jennifer Walshe.

Milton Babbitt Reflections 197510
Brigitta Muntendorf Public Privacy #2 201310

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

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

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 (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

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.

Larry Polansky Ensembles of Note 1998
Bernhard Lang DW16 Songbook 200435

The Cold Trip

MaerzMusik

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

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.

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

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.

Michael Finnissy ...above earth’s shadow 198518

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.

Old Masters Performative Lecture 2016*
Steven Kazuo Takasugi Strange Autumn 2003/0418

Canon

Music at Durham

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

The Years of Prog

music@1pm

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Newton Armstrong The way to go out 2016*12
Linda Catlin Smith With Their Shadows Long 199713
Bunita Marcus Adam and Eve 198719

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 (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

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

Morton Feldman Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello 198775

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).

Carmine Emanuele Cella Upside-Down 2004, rev 2016*9

Artificial Environments

Ukho Music

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

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.

Michael Finnissy Alongside 197920

Repetitions

Sampler Series

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

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.

Michael Finnissy Song 1 19695
Michael Finnissy Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) 201233
Michael Finnissy Andersen-Liederkreis 2016*45

Exterior/Interior

Decontamination #8

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

Palimpsests

hcmf//

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 201645
Bernhard Lang Monadologie XXXII The Cold Trip part 2 2014/1530
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