Performances between 2008 and 2009

Music of Today: Luca Francesconi

Philharmonia Orchestra

18:00, Thursday 31 January 2008
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

André de Ridder, conductor; Luigi Gaggero, cimbalom; Julian Anderson, presenter.

New Rational Music

Rational Rec

20:00, Tuesday 05 February 2008
The Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
44 Pollard Row
E2 6NB London
United Kingdom

New Rational Music is Rational Rec´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.

musikFabrik im WDR: Hörachsen

musikFabrik

20:00, Friday 08 February 2008
Funkhaus am Wallrafplatz
Köln
Germany

Carl Rosman, clarinet; musikFabrik; Diego Masson, conductor

Shona Brown Recital

Blüthner Piano Centre

19:00, Thursday 21 February 2008
Blüthner Piano Centre
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.

Duruflé and Schumann

Kingston Choral Society

20:00, Saturday 08 March 2008
All Saints Church
Market Place
KT1 1JP Kingston-Upon-Thames
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop joins the Kingston Choral Society, conducted by Martin Hall, for a performance of Robert Schumann´s part songs interspersed with piano solos from Bunte Blätter.

Music of Today: Iannis Xenakis

Philharmonia Orchestra

18:00, Thursday 13 March 2008
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

Portrait of Iannis Xenakis conducted by Diego Masson and presented by Julian Anderson.

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.

Quartet

Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung

Thursday 27 March 2008
Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung
Olbrichweg 15
64287 Darmstadt
Germany

Carl Rosman, clarinet; Mark Knoop, piano; Eva Zöllner, accordion; John Eckardt, contrabass; Wolfgang Lessing, cello

Music of Today: Tansy Davies

Philharmonia Orchestra

18:00, Thursday 17 April 2008
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

Portrait of Tansy Davies conducted by Peter Rundel and presented by Julian Anderson.

Rational Rec

A night at the music hall

Spitalfields Festival

20:00, Saturday 07 June 2008
Wilton´s Music Hall
Graces Alley, off Ensign Street
E1 8JB London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus performs at a Rational Rec’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, Chris Newman, Diana Burrell and Trond Reinholdtsen, performed by Plus-Minus 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.

Bachelor Party

nought to sixty

Institute of Contemporary Arts

19:00, Monday 28 July 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts
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.

ELISION

ABC New Music Up Late

22:30, Saturday 09 August 2008
Iwaki Auditorium
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard Melbourne Victoria
Australia

ELISION presents a concert for ABC radio’s New Music Up Late. Featuring Carl Rosman and Richard Haynes, clarinets; Mark Knoop, conductor.

Programme to include:

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 conducted by Hamish McKeich. The programme will include Michael Finnissy’s mammoth Piano Concerto No 3.

175 East

19:30, Saturday 16 August 2008
Raye Freedman Arts Centre
Silver Road, Epsom
Auckland
New Zealand

Mark Knoop returns to New Zealand for two concerts with 175 East conducted by Hamish McKeich. The programme will include Michael Finnissy’s mammoth Piano Concerto No 3.

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: