19:00, Sunday 19 January 2014
Listeners (external link)
Bayerische Straße 8
Berlin
Germany
A hauskonzert and launch of a new CD on the Sub Rosa label.
Peter Ablinger | Voices and Piano (selection) | 1998- |
Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts 2 | 201025 |
20:00, Monday 20 January 2014
Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (external link)
Harvestehuder Weg 12
Hamburg
Germany
Peter Ablinger | Piano and Record | 201225 |
Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts 2 | 201025 |
19:00, Saturday 8 February 2014
The Tetley (external link)
Hunslet Road
LS10 1JQ Leeds
United Kingdom
An evening of live music and performance curated by Sam Belinfante and musicians Mark Knoop and Neil Luck, in response to the exhibition “The Reversing Machine”.
12:15, Sunday 16 February 2014
Kettle’s Yard (external link)
Castle Street
CB3 0AQ Cambridge
United Kingdom
Anton Lukoszevieze, cello, and Mark Knoop. piano perform world premières of five new works especially written as tributes to the late Michael Harrison, former Director of Kettle’s Yard, by each of the composers he appointed as Kettle’s Yard New Music Associates: John Woolrich, Camberwell Composers Collective, Richard Baker, Kenneth Hesketh, Anton Lukoszevieze and Stephen Montague.
13:10, Friday 28 February 2014
Barber Concert Hall (external link)
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT Birmingham
United Kingdom
One of the UK’s leading vocal ensembles, EXAUDI (external link) is renowned for varied programming and performances of both early and contemporary repertoire. This engaging vocal consort has established a commissioning scheme to support young composers and, as part of their visit they will be giving a workshop for composition students at the University following today’s concert, which features the music of John Cage (external link) and Guillaume de Machaut.
John Cage | Ear for EAR | 19835 |
John Cage | The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs | 19422 |
John Cage | A Flower | 19504 |
John Cage | Nowth Upon Nacht | 19841 |
John Cage | The Seasons | 194715 |
Guillaume de Machaut | Ballades (selected) | |
Guillaume de Machaut | Four Virelais (arr. James Weeks) |
11:45, Sunday 2 March 2014
Concertgebouw Brugge (external link)
‘t Zand 34
8000 Brugge
Belgium
As part of “Notation Happening”, curated by Arne Deforce, the Letter Piece Company (external link) present A to Zzz.
Shlomowitz/Anaraki | A to Zzz | 2011-1260 |
20:00, Tuesday 4 March 2014
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom
György Ligeti | Mysteries of the Macabre | 1974-978 |
Jagoda Szmytka | Sky-me, type-me | 20117 |
21:00, Friday 21 March 2014
17:00, Saturday 22 March 2014
Sardinen USF Verftet (external link)
Georgernes Verft 12
Bergen
Norway
A black box. One percussionist. One pianist. A Foley artist and an actor. The audience in the centre. The Last Lighthouse Keepers is an unusual and surrealist experience, where the beam of an imaginery lighthouse switches on and off all that is happening, defining the stage. The moment you repeat an action, you start a ritual, as does the turning light above the audience, creating repetition and trance.
François Sarhan | The Last Lighthouse Keepers | 2014*50 |
20:30, Tuesday 25 March 2014
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom
Launch night for violinist Aisha Orazbayeva’s second album. “The Hand Gallery” is an album experience dedicated to the process of taking the violin sound apart and putting it back together again, and offers music by Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, Elvis Presley, John Cale and Aisha Orazbayeva. Alongside a selection of music from the album, the evening will also feature a special performance of violin strings bowed by spinning LPs.
Morton Feldman | For John Cage | 198275 |
19:00, Tuesday 8 April 2014
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom
Plus-Minus (external link) present a concert of recent work by one of their first ever collaborators, the British experimental composer James Saunders. This concert will include pieces investigating the sonic properties of everyday materials, musical cueing systems that explore group behaviour, and a new work especially written by James for the occasion.
James Saunders | Everybody doing what everybody else is doing | 2013*10 |
James Saunders | with paper | 2006/08, 2009-8 |
James Saunders | So many territories | 2014*15 |
James Saunders | Things whole and not whole | 2011, rev 201210 |
James Saunders | Everybody do this | 201410 |
18:00, Sunday 13 April 2014
Mystetskyi Arsenal (external link)
Lavrska str, 10-12
Kyiv
Ukraine
A concert as part of the New Music Festival at the Book Arsenal in Kiev.
Laurence Crane | Piano Piece No.23 “Ethiopian Distance Runners” | 2009#22 |
Michael Finnissy | Choralvorspiele (Koralforspill) | 2012#33 |
Claude Debussy | Préludes Book 1 | 1909-1040 |
20:00, Friday 9 May 2014
Godsbanen (external link)
Skovgaardsgade 3-5
8000 Århus
Denmark
Pieces from SPOR’s Call for Proposals 2014. Each year SPOR festival invites composers and sound artists from all over the world to submit proposals for the coming festival and each year SPOR receives a wide range of interesting projects, from works for ensemble and music theater pieces to sound installations. This year the jury has selected five very different works to be realized at SPOR 2014, four of them will be presented at this concert. All of the works invite the audience to take part in various ways, of which the first one takes us above ground...
David Bird | Fields | 20107 |
James Saunders | you say what to do | 2014*10 |
James Andean | The Friedman Translations | 2014*14 |
Jessie Marino | Heartful bird, vivid and great in style | 2014*15 |
19:00, Sunday 11 May 2014
Granhøj Dans (external link)
Klosterport 6
8000 Århus
Denmark
SPOR presents together with the Danish ensemble SCENATET (external link) three new works by composers who all contribute to the new departure that has emerged in the past decade among the younger generation of Danish composers.
Juliana Hodkinson | Angel View | 201430 |
Simon Løffler | D | 2013*8 |
Christian Winther Christensen | Nachtmusik | 2010-11*8 |
20:00, Tuesday 27 May 2014
Second Home
Britannia House, 68-80 Hanbury Street
E1 5JL London
United Kingdom
Music and global capitalism: for the artists featured in this programme, the interlacing of these two themes has been a central concern.
Also featuring performances by Fatima Al Qadiri and Leon Michener.
Johannes Kreidler | Outsourcing/Fremdarbeit | 200923 |
Luigi Nono | .....sofferte onde serene... | 197614 |
Cornelius Cardew | Red Flag Prelude | 19733 |
20:00, Friday 30 May 2014
Second Home
Britannia House, 68-80 Hanbury Street
E1 5JL London
United Kingdom
In this night we reimagine the popular song and explore the limits of the voice. Includes music by Andrew Poppy, Georges Aperghis and Robert Ashley and performances by Josephine Foster, Lore Lixenberg and Jennifer Walshe.
Peter Ablinger | Voices and Piano (selection) | 1998- |
20:00, Sunday 1 June 2014
Second Home
Britannia House, 68-80 Hanbury Street
E1 5JL London
United Kingdom
In our final event we profile three Italians whose fixation with colour is by turns delicate, explosive and cataclysmic. With Quartetto Prometeo and Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Domenico Scarlatti | Keyboard Sonatas | |
Salvatore Sciarrino | Sonata V per pianoforte | 199414 |
20:30, Monday 9 June 2014
Loft (external link)
Wissmannstr. 30
50823 Köln
Germany
New British music for piano and electronics. A presentation by composer Matthew Shlomowitz (external link) will take place at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln the following day, 10 June at 11:00.
Joanna Bailie | Artificial Environment No.8 | 2012-1318 |
Newton Armstrong | making one leaf transparent and then another | 201212 |
Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts 2 | 201025 |
19:00, Tuesday 10 June 2014
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom
City University Department of Music’s Ensemble-in-Residence, Plus Minus presents new works by student composers alongside some experimental classics.
Morton Feldman | Durations 2 | 19604 |
Aldo Clementi | Dedica | 19984 |
19:00, Thursday 12 June 2014
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom
Gwenaëlle Rouger and Mark Knoop present a programme of works for pianos and electronics with Newton Armstrong. Includes Michael Beil (external link)’s Doppel for two pianos, live video and audio.
Georg Friedrich Haas | Ein Schattenspiel | 200410 |
Ben Smith | the ineluctable modality of the audible (Water Music) | 2014*8 |
Georges Aperghis | Dans le mur | 200716 |
Georgia Rodgers | cut it out | 2014*10 |
Michael Beil | Doppel | 200912 |
18:00, Friday 27 June 2014
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall (external link)
Royal College of Music
Prince Consort Road London
United Kingdom
From the Soundhouse is the RCM’s cutting-edge series mixing live performance and electronics. Concert also includes works by Kaija Saariaho, Luc Ferrari and Ruaidhri Mannion.
Michael Beil | Doppel | 200912 |
19:00, Saturday 4 October 2014
Villa Romana (external link)
Via Senese 68
50124 Florence
Italy
Mark Knoop performs alongside Alter Ego in this contemporary festival at the Villa Romana in Florence.
Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts 2 | 201025 |
Matthew Shlomowitz | Fast Medium Swing | 200810 |
Newton Armstrong | making one leaf transparent and then another | 201212 |
19:00, Wednesday 8 October 2014
Lindehuset
Odda Smelteverk
Odda
Norway
Mark Knoop performs with Øyvind Skarbø at the opening event of the Odda Literature Festival.
James Saunders | you say what to do | 201410 |
20:00, Tuesday 14 October 2014
Studio Ernest-Ansermet
Passage de la Radio 2
1205 Genève
Switzerland
Frederic D’haene | Hearing from nowhere — Part 3 | 2010-1125 |
Anton Webern | Konzert opus 24 | 19348 |
Franck C Yeznikian | Ruhig Schreitend, par immersion | 2014*20 |
Anton Webern | Symphonie opus 21 | 192810 |
19:00, Tuesday 21 October 2014
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom
Cellist Séverine Ballon (external link) and Mark Knoop present new and recent works by New Zealand composers.
Jeroen Speak | Jung’s Shadow | 2012*12 |
Jeroen Speak | Shadow Aspect | 2012*8 |
Dorothy Ker | Rare Earth | 20149 |
Dorothy Ker | the history of rock | 200810 |
John Croft | ...du second infini | 200015 |
John Croft | la terra lagrimosa...una luce vermiglia | 200615 |
Michael Norris | Phospheni | 2014*6 |
18:00, Saturday 22 November 2014
Hochschule für Künste (external link)
Dechanatstraße 13-15
28195 Bremen
Germany
The second concert in pgnm’s 18th festival features Ensemble MAM (external link) and Mark Knoop.
Iannis Xenakis | Concret PH | 19583 |
Edgard Varèse | Poème électronique | 19589 |
Jagoda Szmytka | inane prattle | 201312 |
Trond Reinholdtsen | Faust, or The Decline of Western Music | 201145 |
20:30, Saturday 22 November 2014
Sendesaal Bremen (external link)
Bürgermeister-Spitta-Allee 45
28329 Bremen
Germany
The third concert in pgnm’s 18th festival includes performances by Nadar Ensemble (external link), Ensemble MAM (external link), and Mark Knoop.
Vladimir Gorlinsky | Sun.Disc.Minotaurus | 201013 |
Steven Kazuo Takasugi | Die Klavierübung: movement 1 (version for piano and tape) | 2007-09/2014*11 |
Steven Kazuo Takasugi | Die Klavierübung: movements 3 & 4 (version for tape) | 2007-0917 |
Thomas Hummel | Sinaida Kowalenko | 2014*12 |
Johannes Kreidler | Der “Weg der Verzweiflung” (Hegel) ist der chromatische. | 2011/1216 |
13:00, Tuesday 25 November 2014
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Six works for between two and four pianists at between one and four pianos, all composed within a 10-year period by two composers at their most inquisitive stages of notational exploration.
Four infrequently performed works by Morton Feldman (external link), reflecting this most intuitive composer at possibly his most cerebral and abstruse, are performed alongside the very first two works in which Christian Wolff explored what was to become a unique, cryptic approach to music notation.
With Catherine Laws, Philip Thomas, John Tilbury and Mark Knoop.
Morton Feldman | Piano Four Hands | 19588 |
Morton Feldman | Two Pieces for Three Pianos | 196618 |
Christian Wolff | Duo for Pianists I | 19625 |
Morton Feldman | Vertical Thoughts 1 | 19636 |
Christian Wolff | Sonata for 3 Pianos | 1957¶5 |
Morton Feldman | Piece for Four Pianos | 195715 |
16:00, Friday 28 November 2014
Phipps Hall
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate
HD1 3DH Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Plus-Minus (external link) presents a concert of works especially written for the group, including the premiere of Alexander Schubert (external link)’s Sensate Focus, alongside recent pieces by Bernhard Lang (external link) and James Weeks (external link). The programme features field recordings of street musicians, samples from a horror movie soundtrack, a synchronised light show and itchy loops.
James Weeks | Looping Busker Music | 201315 |
Alexander Schubert | Sensate Focus | 2014*18 |
Bernhard Lang | DW23: ...Loops for Dr. X | 201320 |
18:45, Monday 1 December 2014
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Aisha Orazbayeva and Mark Knoop premiere Bryn Harrison (external link)’s measureless exploration of memory alongside Feldman (external link)’s contemplative duo.
Morton Feldman | For John Cage | 198275 |
Bryn Harrison | Receiving the Approaching Memory | 2011-12*40 |
20:30, Tuesday 2 December 2014
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom
Plus Minus features at the December edition of Kammer Klang. The night also includes Kit Downes performing organ works by Moondog.
Alexander Schubert | Sensate Focus | 201418 |
Peter Ablinger | Instrumente und Rauschen | 1997, 200818 |
Jennifer Walshe | Everything You Own Has Been Taken To A Depot Somewhere | 201310 |