Performances of Préludes I-V from Book 1

Wild Flowers

Brisbane Music Festival

16:00, Saturday 24 August 2024
14:00, Sunday 25 August 2024
FourthWall Arts
540 Queen Street
Brisbane Queensland
Australia

Mark Knoop brings a scintillating programme featuring colourful Debussy and visceral Ustvolskaya, and is joined by Alex Raineri for Finnissy (external link)'s Wild Flowers

Constellations

20:00, Friday 30 August 2024
Tempo Rubato (external link)
34 Breese St
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Mark Knoop returns to Melbourne with a programme drawn from imagery. Debussy’s impressionist Préludes and Feldman (external link)’s final solo piano work take real or imagined situations as their starting point. In Rósa Lind (external link)'s Trente, Wassily Kandinsky’s 1937 monochrome grid canvas is exploded into a wealth of allusions and mythologies surrounding the astronomical constellations.

Sound and perfume swirl in the evening air

City Summer Sounds

19:00, Wednesday 28 May 2025
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Mark Knoop performs works that explore the kaleidoscopic possibilities of the piano timbre. Joanna Bailie (external link)’s marblepark positions the instrument inside the “impossible space” of an electronically altered field recording, while Newton Armstrong (external link)’s making one leaf transparent and then another utilises the piano as an extended resonator and Akiko Ushijima (external link)’s Materia adds synthesized instrumental sounds to the live piano. These recent works are paired with Chopin’s last Ballade and the first five of Debussy’s Preludes: ground-breaking works in the piano’s colouristic repertoire.