- “one of the most brilliant pianists of the contemporary repertoire” The Sunday Times
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 | 1992†12 |
| 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” | 1953†35 |
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 | 1990-91†12 |
| 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 | 1995†12 |
| 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 | 1911†4 |
| 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 | 1997-98†25 |
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 | 1998¶10 |
| Chris Dench | ik(s)lands fragment [more info...] | 1997/1998*2 |
| Richard Barrett | Tract | 1984-9625 |
| Chris Dench | the heart’s algorithms [more info...] | 1993/1999/2002¶15 |
| Adam Yee | Lot | 1995¶2 |
| 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 | 1984-96†25 |
| 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 | 1984-96†25 |
| 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
Download programme for this concert (PDF Document)
| 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 | 1996†20 |
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 | 1996†20 |
| Chris Dench | light-strung sigils | 2002†16 |
| Richard Barrett | Trawl | 1995-97†10 |
| 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
Download programme for this concert (PDF Document)
| Chris Dench | light-strung sigils | 2002†16 |
| Damien Ricketson | Imagining Le Verrier | 2001 |
| Richard Barrett | Trawl | 1995-97†10 |
| Liza Lim | Veil | 1999†10 |
| 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 | 1987†15 |
| 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 | 1986†15 |
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.
Download programme for this concert (PDF Document)
| Michael Finnissy | The History of Photography in Sound [more info...] | 1997-2000†330 |
Fleshold
Libra Ensemble
20:00, Sunday 25 August 2002
Iwaki Auditorium (external link)
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia
Download programme for this concert (PDF Document)
| 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.
| 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 | 1951†50 |
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.
| Mauricio Kagel | Match | 196418 |
| Damien Ricketson | Chinese Whisper | 2000†14 |
| 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.
| Brian Ferneyhough | Opus Contra Naturam - A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist | 2000†13 |
| 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...] | 1979/1996†7 |
| 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 | 2002¶6 |
| Brendan Colbert | Scorn | 2002*8 |
| Brian Ferneyhough | Opus Contra Naturam - A Shadow Play for Speaking Pianist | 200013 |
| Enno Poppe | 60 x F.G. | 2001¶1 |
| Brian Ferneyhough | Coloratura | 1966‡8 |
| 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 1966¶6 |
| 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 | 1998¶32 |
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 | 2006¶8 |
| 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 | 2004†9 |
| David Young | Stile I, II, III | 19967 |
| David Young | Roccia | 20038 |
| David Young | Sarcophagus | 20008 |
| David Young | Inventario | 199910 |
| David Young | Animali | 2002†8 |
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 | 1999-2001‡60 |
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 | 2003-04¶5 |
| 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 | 2006¶13 |
| Enno Poppe | Thema mit 840 Variationen | 1993/97¶7 |
| Charlotte Seither | Musik für Orchester | 2007*14 |
| Charlotte Seither | Gran passo | 2006*10 |
| Iris ter Schiphorst | Zerstören II | 2006¶25 |
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 | 1999-2000¶10 |
| Enno Poppe | Scherben | 2000/2004¶12 |
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, 2008‡18 |
| Peter Ablinger | Bertolt Brecht, Lech Walesa, Hanna Schygulla from Voices and Piano | 1998-15 |
| Markus Trunk | Raw Rows | 199010 |
| Peter Ablinger | Akkordeon und Rauschen | 1997-99¶6 |
| 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 | 2004¶9 |
| Adam de la Cour | Beat Me | 2007*5 |
| Michael Finnissy | Clarinet Sonata | 2007¶10 |
| 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 | 2003¶12 |
| 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 | 2009‡5 |
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 Brookes’ Threads 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 | 1992¶2 |
| Gerhard Stäbler | Internet 1.9 | 1996¶13 |
| 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”) | 2005¶8 |
| 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 | 2009¶7 |
| 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 | 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 |
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 | 2005¶5 |
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 | 2008¶12 |
| 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 | 2010-11‡50 |
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 | 1995¶6 |
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 | 1969‡15 |
| 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 | 2011¶9 |
| Stefan Prins | Piano Hero #2 | 2011, rev 2012*6 |
| Peter Ablinger | 6 Linien | 2004¶6 |
| 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 2012‡3 |
| Johannes Kreidler | Untitled performance 3 | 2011‡10 |
| Nicolaus A. Huber | Harakiri | 1971, arr 2012‡16 |
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
| 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) | 2012¶33 |
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 2010¶9 |
| Alex Hills | After and Before | 2011-12*20 |
| Agostino Di Scipio | Audible EcoSystemics n.3a (Background Noise Study) | 2004-05¶10 |
| Michael Pisaro | ricefall | 2004¶18 |
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 | 2012¶14 |
| 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 2012‡10 |
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 2012‡6 |
| 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 | 2012-13‡18 |
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 | 2011¶20 |
| James Weeks | Looping Busker Music | 2013*15 |
| Jennifer Walshe | same person/not the same person | 2007¶24 |
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 | 2012¶8 |
| Newton Armstrong | Nature Pieces | 2013‡15 |
| Bernhard Lang | DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X | 2013¶20 |
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
| 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 | 1957¶5 |
| 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 | 2000/2012¶20 |
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) | 2007-09/2014¶11 |
| Natacha Diels | 2.5 Nightmares, for Jessie | 2014¶10 |
| Steven Kazuo Takasugi | Strange Autumn | 2003/04¶18 |
| 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 | 2015¶13 |
| Jessie Marino | Ritual I | 2011¶4 |
| Jessie Marino | Endless Shrimp | 2015¶8 |
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 | 2014¶25 |
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 | 2013¶10 |
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 | 1987¶19 |
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
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13:00, Sunday 27 November 2016
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Palimpsests is a new programme for voice and piano that re-imagines the song cycle: Bernhard Lang (external link) and Michael Finnissy (external link) explore concepts of collage and remembrance in new works written for Juliet Fraser (external link) and Mark Knoop.
| Michael Finnissy | Andersen-Liederkreis | 2016¶45 |
| Bernhard Lang | Monadologie XXXII The Cold Trip part 2 | 2014/15¶30 |
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