Performances of Voices and Piano (selection)

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

Choral Preludes

Voix à la Maison du Peuple

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

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

Iannis Xenakis Mists 198012
Peter Ablinger Voices and Piano (selection) 1998-
Bryn Harrison Quietly Rising 20083
Michael Finnissy Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) 2012¤40
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first performance
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first performance in Belgium