- “one of the most brilliant pianists of the contemporary repertoire” The Sunday Times
Solo recitals at la Maison du Peuple, Brussels, and The Forge, London, in April and May featuring new works by Peter Ablinger (external link), Michael Finnissy (external link), Adam de la Cour (external link) and Richard Beaudoin (external link).
Microtimings, a double CD of music by Richard Beaudoin (external link), featuring Mark Knoop solo piano, and the Kreutzer Quartet (external link), released on New Focus Recordings (external link).
Performances of Faust, or The Decline of Western Music
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 |
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 |
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