Recent and Upcoming Performances

asamisimasa

ULTIMA Festival

Thursday 09 October 2008
Lindemansalen, Norges Musikkhøgskole
Slemdalsvelen 11
0302 Oslo
Norway

asamisimasa presents a concert with Mark Knoop in the 2008 Ultima Festival.

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 concert, Plus-Minus 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 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.

Libra Duo

BMIC Cutting Edge 2008

19:30, Thursday 06 November 2008
The Warehouse
13 Theed St
SE1 8ST London
United Kingdom

Acclaimed soloists in their own right, Mark Knoop and Carl Rosman also regularly perform at the heart of such new music groups as the Libra Ensemble, ELISION, Plus-Minus and musikFabrik. 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 they perform new works by Andrew Digby and Adam de la Cour as well as the UK première of Michael Finnissy’s Clarinet Sonata and Richard Barrett’s controversial Flechtwerk, composed for them in 2007.

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 duo in their Cutting Edge concert for the première of a new work by Bryn Harrison.

Plus-Minus: Bryn Harrison portrait

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

19:30, Sunday 23 November 2008
St Paul's Hall
Huddersfield
United Kingdom

The quietly oscillating, hypnotic surfaces of Bryn Harrison’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 is joined by guests from asamisimasa Anders Førisdal and Tanja Orning.

Sonderkonzert mit Howard Arman

Bühnen der Stadt Gera

14:30, Saturday 29 November 2008
Konzertsaal, Bühnen der Stadt Gera
Theaterplatz 1
07548 Gera
Germany

Mark Knoop performs Gershwin’s perennial favourite with conductor Howard Arman in an American-themed programme.

Kämmer Klang

20:30, Tuesday 02 December 2008
Charlie Wright's International
45 Pitfield Street
N1 6DA London
United Kingdom

Kämmer Klang is a monthly series, curated by Lucy Railton, exploring the boundaries of modern classical, electronic and improvised music, as well as performance and film. Programme to include:

Thousands of Bundled Straw

Libra Ensemble

Melbourne Recital Centre

22:30, Thursday 12 February 2009
Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
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, conducted by Mark Knoop, is proud to take part in the opening festival of the Melbourne Recital Centre.