- “one of the most brilliant pianists of the contemporary repertoire” The Sunday Times
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).
Two solo concerts at Borealis Festival (external link) in March: Faust by Trond Reinholdtsen (external link) and the première of Koralvorspill by Michael Finnissy (external link).
Performances of Popular Contexts
Popular Contexts
Out Hear
20:00, Monday 22 November 2010
Kings Place Hall Two (external link)
90 York Way
N1 9AG London
United Kingdom
Loving and wistful, savage and bitter, Finnissy (external link)'s colossal early work challenges and celebrates notions of Englishness through engagement with English folk-song and its connotations of rural innocence. Shlomowitz (external link)'s new work for piano and sampler (written for Mark Knoop) presents new perspectives on the familiar.
| Matthew Shlomowitz | Popular Contexts | 2010*30 |
| Michael Finnissy | English Country-Tunes | 1977/1982-8550 |
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 |
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- first performance
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- first performance in Belgium
