Tuesday 13 September 2016, 8pm
Mark Knoop / piano
Aisha Orazbayeva / violin
Bridget Carey / viola
Anton Lukoszevieze / cello
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
Written in 1987 Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello is Morton Feldman’s last composition and lasts approximately one hour and fifteen minutes. This is a second London performance of the piece since 1999.
“…everything you do, and everything I do, I feel is essentially not mine. Everything is a found object. I mean, I didn’t invent the major 6th. I didn’t invent a minor 7th. When I hear these things going, how I use them. Watching these found objects. Everything is a found object. Even something that I invent is a found object. You’re dealing with found objects. You’re all amateur Duchamps, and you don’t know it. And in realizing that, you must lose your vested interest in ideas.” – Morton Feldman from his 1984 Darmstadt Lecture
London based pianist and conductor Mark Knoop is known for his fearless performances and individual interpretations. He has commissioned and premiered countless new works and worked with many respected composers, and also brings fresh approaches to the standard and 20th- century repertoire. He is currently Turner Sims Fellow at the University of Southampton.
Mark has appeared throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia and in New Zealand, South Korea, Mongolia, United States of America, Canada and at festivals including the Transit, Ultima, Huddersfield, Spitalfields, Borealis, Lucerne, Spor, Melbourne, and Adelaide Festivals, and the ISCM World Music Days.
He performs with such groups as Plus-Minus (London/Brussels), Letter Piece Company (London/Brussels), musikFabrik (Köln) and Apartment House (London). His recordings of music by John Cage, Richard Beaudoin, and David Lumsdaine have been critically acclaimed.
Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva is renowned for her fearless interpretations of contemporary music and radical approach to early repertoire. She has released four critically acclaimed solo albums with music ranging from her own compositions to Telemann and Sciarrino, the New Yorker describing her "Music for VIolin Alone" album as "unanimity of head, heart and hands". She has performed internationally in venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, HAU2 Berlin, Corum Montpellier for Radio France and Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe. In 2022 together with harpsichordist Prach Boondiskulchok Aisha performed all of Biber's Mystery Sonatas at the Spitalfields Festival in London.
As a composer she has written music for dance, theatre and film, including OUR SOLO a collaboration with ECCE dance company (touring in 2023 - 2024), Heartbreaking Final written with Tim Etchells and commissioned by Wiener Festwochen 2021, the piece was later performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Aisha is a member of ICTUS ensemble in Brussels.
Bridget Carey studied jointly at the Royal Academy of Music and London University, graduating with a Masters degree in Performance in 1987. Since this time she has pursued a varied freelance career based in London, encompassing genres from symphony orchestra to free improvisation. She has developed a particular reputation in the field of new music, where she has premiered new opera with the Almeida ensemble, dance scores with Siobhan Davies Dance company and Ballet Rambert, contemporary classics with Music Projects London and Opus 20, new complexity with Ensemble Expose, experimental music with Apartment House, and new chamber repertoire with the Kreutzer Quartet and Okeanos, among others.
Descended from a retreating Napoleonic soldier and a Lithuanian noblewoman, Anton Lukoszevieze is a cellist, composer, improviser and multidisciplinary artist. He is also the founder and director of the experimental music group Apartment House, releasing over 40 albums with them.
http://www.antonlukoszevieze.co.uk/
