Performances between 2019 and 2020

A Cold Trip

Miry Lied

20:00, Tuesday 15 January 2019
Miry Concertzaal (external link)
Biezekapelstraat 9
9000 Gent
Belgium

Juliet Fraser (external link) and Mark Knoop like to colour outside the lines. Their programme however takes lines very seriously. Just outside the boundaries of harmony Lisa Illean (external link) interweaves three texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins into an intimate composition for voice and tape. Conlon Nancarrow, on the other hand, was fascinated by canons, the interplay of lines par excellence. He was so fascinated that at the time he needed automated pianolas to get his personal brand of hypercomplex polyphony played at all. Lastly, Bernard Lang cycle The Cold Trip traces the silhouette of Schubert’s Winterreise, based on a theme from Purcell’s King Arthur.

The music of Crane and Oliveros

Camden Arts Centre

19:30, Saturday 9 February 2019
Camden Arts Centre (external link)
Arkwright Road
NW3 6DG London
United Kingdom

As part of an exhibition of the films of Beatrice Gibson, Manuel Zurria, flutes, and Mark Knoop, piano present music by Laurence Crane and Pauline Oliveros (external link); some sharing similar aesthetic and structural characteristics with Gibson’s output and also with the work of Gertrude Stein, on whose screenplay Gibson bases ‘Deux Soeurs Qui Ne Sont Pas Soeurs’. Exploring aspects of portraiture, repetition and duplication — exact and inexact — the music seems in many ways closely aligned to the notion of ‘the copy’ that fascinates Gibson.

Six Lethargies

Crash Ensemble

20:00, Wednesday 17 April 2019
National Concert Hall (external link)
Earlsfort Terrace
D02 N527 Dublin
Ireland

The Irish premiere of Keaton Henson’s new piece performed by string orchestra, exploring themes of mental illness, trauma and empathy. Mark Knoop conducts the Crash Ensemble (external link).

Again and Again

13:00, Thursday 25 April 2019
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop presents a programme of works exploring themes of repetition as part of the international conference “Again & Again”.

Femenine

Apartment House

19:30, Friday 26 April 2019
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Femenine

Apartment House

Intonal Festival

20:00, Sunday 28 April 2019
Intonal Festival (external link)
Malmö
Sweden

Memory

AngelicA

21:30, Thursday 23 May 2019
Music Research Center (external link)
San Leonardo Theater
Via San Vitale 63 Bologna
Italy

Lecture about Bad Music

Plus Minus Ensemble

UK Society for Music Analysis

19:30, Monday 29 July 2019
Turner Sims (external link)
Salisbury Road
SO17 1BJ Southampton
United Kingdom

Duncan House

Plus Minus Ensemble

Tête à Tête Opera

Friday 9 August 2019
Saturday 10 August 2019
Duncan House
London
United Kingdom

Handmade

Plus Minus Ensemble

Warsaw Autumn

22:30, Friday 20 September 2019
Filharmonia Narodowa
Jasna 5
00-950 Warsaw
Poland

Midlands

Distractfold

Bludenzer Tage

Thursday 3 October 2019
Bludenz
Bludenz
Austria

Glücklich

SWR Symphonieorchester

Donaueschinger Musiktage

20:00, Friday 18 October 2019
Baar-Sporthalle
Humboltstraße 3
78166 Donaueschingen
Germany

Laurence on sport

Lunchtime concerts

13:00, Friday 15 November 2019
Bishopsgate Institute (external link)
230 Bishopsgate
EC2M 4QH London
United Kingdom

A concert of the music of Laurence Crane suggested by the theme of sports from the Bishopsgate Institute archives.

Residency Launch Concert

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Dialogues Festival

19:30, Thursday 28 November 2019
West Court
Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building
Laurinson Place EH3 9DF Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus Ensemble begins its 3-year residency at the Reid School of Music with a programme featuring different approaches to electronic processing in instrumental music.

c(HARD)ini

Gruppo Aperto Musica Oggi

20:00, Thursday 5 December 2019
Museo Novecento (external link)
Piazza di Santa Maria Novella, 10
50123 Firenze
Italy

Mark Knoop joins flutist Manuel Zurria in a celebration of the music of Giancarlo Cardini.