Mark Knoop
Encyclopedia
Mark Knoop is an Australian pianist.
Knoop was born in Hobart
, Tasmania. He studied piano at the Victorian College of the Arts
and later in Europe with Stephen McIntyre
, Herbert Henck, James Avery
and Peter Feuchtwanger, as well as conducting with Robert Rosen. He now lives in London
.
He has performed in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia as a solo pianist and conductor, giving premieres of piano works by Chris Dench, Dominik Karski, Benjamin Marks and Matthew Shlomowitz
, as well as many important Australian premieres, including Michael Finnissy
's The History of Photography in Sound and Richard Barrett
's Tract. He is also co-artistic director of the Libra Ensemble, and plays regularly with other groups, including ELISION Ensemble
, Ensemble Plus-Minus and Ensemble Expose.
Knoop regularly collaborates with other musicians, including cellist Christina Waldock, flautist Kathleen Gallagher, clarinettist Carl Rosman
and pianist Ian Pace
. He is regularly associated with the music of the new complexity
, regularly performing the music of Brian Ferneyhough
, Finnissy, Dench and Barrett, whilst also playing an extremely wide repertoire of all periods; his approach to older repertoire frequently shows the influence of historically informed performance
.
He has recorded the complete piano works of David Lumsdaine
and is also to record the complete Phase Portraits by Chris Dench.
Knoop was born in Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
, Tasmania. He studied piano at the Victorian College of the Arts
Victorian College of the Arts
The Faculty of the VCA and Music is a faculty of the University of Melbourne, in Victoria . VCAM is located near the Melbourne central business district, on two campuses, one - the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - on the Parkville campus of the University of Melbourne, and the other - the...
and later in Europe with Stephen McIntyre
Stephen McIntyre
Stephen McIntyre is a Canadian mathematician, former minerals prospector, and semi-retired mining consultant who is best known as the founder and editor of Climate Audit, a blog devoted to the analysis and discussion of climate data...
, Herbert Henck, James Avery
James Avery (musician)
James Avery was an American classical pianist and conductor.He was born in Hutchinson, Kansas and studied at the University of Kansas, and then at Indiana University under Tibor Kozma. From 1967 to 1980 he taught at [University of Iowa ], and from 1980 until 2002 at the Hochschule für Musik...
and Peter Feuchtwanger, as well as conducting with Robert Rosen. He now lives in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
He has performed in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia as a solo pianist and conductor, giving premieres of piano works by Chris Dench, Dominik Karski, Benjamin Marks and Matthew Shlomowitz
Matthew Shlomowitz
Matthew Shlomowitz is a composer of contemporary classical music.He was raised in Adelaide, Australia and studied with Bozidar Kos at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and with Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University...
, as well as many important Australian premieres, including Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy is an English composer and pianist. His music is characterised by the range of extremes often found in his work; opposing binary structures are found commonly, often seen as juxtaposing textures, register and tempi...
's The History of Photography in Sound and Richard Barrett
Richard Barrett (composer)
Richard Barrett is a British composer.-Biography:Barrett began to study music seriously only after graduating in genetics and microbiology at University College London in 1980 . From then until 1983 he took private lessons with Peter Wiegold...
's Tract. He is also co-artistic director of the Libra Ensemble, and plays regularly with other groups, including ELISION Ensemble
ELISION Ensemble
The ELISION Ensemble is a chamber ensemble specialising in contemporary classical music,concentrating on the creation and presentation of new works....
, Ensemble Plus-Minus and Ensemble Expose.
Knoop regularly collaborates with other musicians, including cellist Christina Waldock, flautist Kathleen Gallagher, clarinettist Carl Rosman
Carl Rosman
Carl Rosman is an Australian clarinettist.Rosman studied with Phillip Miechel in Melbourne, then with Peter Jenkin at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music...
and pianist Ian Pace
Ian Pace
Ian Pace is a British pianist.Pace studied at Chetham's School of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford and the Juilliard School in New York. His main teacher was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor....
. He is regularly associated with the music of the new complexity
New Complexity
In music, the New Complexity is a term dating from the 1980s, principally applied to composers seeking a "complex, multi-layered interplay of evolutionary processes occurring simultaneously within every dimension of the musical material" ....
, regularly performing the music of Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...
, Finnissy, Dench and Barrett, whilst also playing an extremely wide repertoire of all periods; his approach to older repertoire frequently shows the influence of historically informed performance
Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance is an approach in the performance of music and theater. Within this approach, the performance adheres to state-of-the-art knowledge of the aesthetic criteria of the period in which the music or theatre work was conceived...
.
He has recorded the complete piano works of David Lumsdaine
David Lumsdaine
David Lumsdaine is an Australian composer. He studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music . He moved to England in 1952 and for a while shared a flat with fellow expatriate, the poet Peter Porter, with whom he collaborated on several projects including the cantata Annotations of...
and is also to record the complete Phase Portraits by Chris Dench.