Mark Knoop
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Mark Knoop is an Australian pianist.
Knoop was born in 1972 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 Ensemble ELISION, Ensemble Plus-Minus and Ensemble Expose.
Knoop regularly collaborates with other musicians, including cellist Christina Wadlock, 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.
