Peter Knight

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Australian trumpeter/composer/sound artist, Peter Knight, is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, which integrates jazz, experimental, and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations, and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra.

Perpetually curious, Peter’s practice defies categorisation; indeed he works in the spaces between categories, between genres, and between cultures: “Hard to categorise… hauntingly memorable” The Wire (UK).  “Falling into an utterly genre-less wormhole” Cyclic Defrost. “Honest, inventive and original” Hour Magazine Montreal. “A serious work of stringent originality” BBC Jazz on 3. “If trumpet is an element then Knight is an alchemist” New York City Jazz Record.

Peter’s role with the Australian Art Orchestra sees him touring regularly with the group both in Australia and abroad. He also commissions new work for the ensemble and curates a range of innovative programs for large and small settings. Outside of the AAO Peter performs regularly as a solo artist developing a distinctive modality for trumpet and electronics under the moniker, Allotrope. Other current projects include: a new ensemble, Daughter’s Fever, featuring Melbourne alt folk luminary, Paddy Mann (AKA Grand Salvo); his celebrated cross-cultural sextet, Way Out West, with koto virtuoso Satsuki Odamura, and his long running collaboration with theatre-maker, Tamara Saulwick. In January 2015 the pair’s latest work, Endings, premiered at Sydney Festival and was described as, “an elegant, economical production that delivers on its promise to stay with you long after you leave” The Guardian.

Peter has presented these and other projects at numerous venues and festivals with recent highlights including: Montreal Jazz Festival, Earshot Festival Seattle, Copenhagen Jazzhouse, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Aarhus Festival (Denmark), Café Oto (London), Melbourne Festival, Sydney Festival, MONA FOMA (Hobart), Dotolim (Seoul), Super Deluxe (Tokyo), Urban Guild (Kyoto), Earzoom (Ljubljana), Sonorous Duration Festival (Singapore), Veneto Jazz Festival (Italy), Teatro Municipal de Las Condes (Chile), iBeam (New York), Labor Sonor (Berlin), Cosmopolite (Oslo) and Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth).

As a composer Peter’s recent commissions include, Vanessa Tomlinson for 8 Hits (percussion solo), the Australian Brass Quintet (extended brass quintet), ABC Radio National (sound work for Sound. Music. Word), Tamara Saulwick (various electro-acoustic scores), Australian Art Orchestra (various), Kate Neal (wind and string quintet), Big West Festival (Siren Call 2015), International Trumpet Guild (extended trumpet quartet), and Arts House Melbourne (digital theatre/sound work 2015).

Peter is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations including an Australia Council Music Fellowship, two Bell Jazz Awards,  APRA/AMC Art Music Awards, Green Room Theatre (sound design), Australian Arts In Asia Awards, and AIR Independent Recording. He holds a doctorate from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and was awarded 2013 Alumnus of the Year. Residencies include, Banff Centre Fall Residency (2007) with the assistance of a Rolston Music Fellowship (Canada) and 2014 Music Omi (New York). Peter’s work has also been supported by grants from the Ian Potter Trust, Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Alan C. Rose Trust, Australia Korea Foundation, Australian International Cultural Council, and The Myer Foundation. In 2005 he was awarded the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship.

Selected awards, grants and residencies

2014: Music Omi New York

2014: APRA/AMC Art Music Awards. Award for Excellence by an Organisation. Australian Art Orchestra

2013: Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Alumnus of the Year

2013: Australia Council Music Fellowship (for 2013/14)

2013: Australian Arts in Asia awards. Finalist for Bright Splinters

2012: Australian Jazz Bell Awards. Winner ‘Most Original Australian Jazz Album’ for Fish Boast of Fishing.

2012: AIR Awards. Finalist for Jazz Album of the Year.

2012: APRA/AMC Art Music Awards. Finalist for Jazz Composition of the Year

2011: APRA/AMC Art Music Awards. Finalist for Award for Excellence with Way Out West

2011: Victorian Green Room Awards. Nomination for ‘Best Composition and Sound Design’ for Pin Drop

2009: Bell Award for ‘Australian Jazz Ensemble of the Year’ with Way Out West

2008: APRA Awards nomination, Jazz Composition of the Year

2007: Tom and Isobel Rolston Scholarship Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada)

2007: Griffith University full scholarship for doctoral studies in composition

2006: Myer Foundation grant for new sound installation work with Double Venturi

2004: Keith and Elizabeth Travelling Fellowship

2003: Alan C. Rose Memorial Fund Project Scholarship

Discography as leader

2014: Peter Knight/Dung Nguyen with Joe Talia, Blach Sifilchi, LENA, Tilman Robinson, Dan West. Re: Residual (remixes). Parentheses (Belgium)

2012: Peter Knight (solo), Allotrope, Listen Hear Collective (Aust)

2011: Peter Knight (sextet), Fish Boast of Fishing, Listen Hear Collective (Aust)

2011: Peter Knight/Dung Nguyen, Residual, Parentheses Records (Belgium)

2010: Way Out West, The Effects of Weather, Jazzhead/MGM (Aust)

2007: Way Out West, Old Grooves for New Streets, Jazzhead/MGM (Aust), Effendi Records (Canada)

2006: Peter Knight Quintet, All the Gravitation of Silence, Jazzhead/MGM (Aust)

2006: 5+2 Brass Ensemble, Invisible Cities and Other Works, Rufus Records/Universal (Aust)

2003: Way Out West, Footscray Station, Newmarket Music (Aust)

2001: Peter Knight Quartet, Between Two Moments, Newmarket Music (Aust)

Recent selected festivals and concerts

2013: Allotrope solo tour Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Yokohama, Seoul, New York, Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco.

2012: Allotrope solo tour Singapore (Sonorous Duration Festival), Denmark (LAK Soundart Festival), UK (Café Oto), Slovenia (Earzoom Festival Ljubljana and International Computer Music Conference), Italy (Venice), Australia (Restrung Festival Brisbane)

2012: Performances with Lindsay Vickery and Stuart James Slovenia (Earzoom Festival Ljubljana), Italy (Naples Conservatorium)

Pin Drop (hybrid theatre work with electroacoustic score. Collaboration with Tamara Saulwick) National tour Sydney (Carriageworks) Hobart (Salamanca Arts Centre) Cairns (Centre of Contemporary Arts)

2012: Fish Boast of Fishing premiere Melbourne Recital Centre for Melbourne Jazz Festival

2012: Bright Splinters (with vocalist/multi media artist, Sunny Kim) World Expo Yeosu Korea

2012: Allotrope solo concerts at Dotolim Seoul and Artspace Don Quixote Suncheon (South Korea)

2011: Bright Splinters. Recording and concert performances in Seoul

2011: Queensland Music Festival with Clocked Out Band Radio Plays

2011: Pin Drop. Malthouse season Melbourne

2011: Australian tour with NY saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff and pianist Matt Mitchell

2011: Melbourne International Jazz Festival Quinsin Nachoff and 5+2 Brass Ensemble

2011: Chendu Spring Festival (Sichuan China) with Wide Alley

2010: Pin Drop. Performances at Arts House North Melbourne

2010 National tour of Australia (12 dates) with Way Out West to launch The Effects of Weather, tour produced by Sound Travellers

2010 Canadian tour with Erik Griswold’s Wide Alley including Vancouver Jazz Festival and Ottawa Jazz Festival. Album recording and release

2009 Solo concert for Labor Sonor at KuLe Berlin

2009 Tour of Japan including Takatsuki Jazz Street Festival Osaka with Way Out West

2009: Tour of Korea with Way Out West

2009: Sydney Opera House with Erik Griswold’s Wide Alley

2009: Auckland Festival with Erik Griswold’s Wide Alley

2009: All Tomorrow’s Parties Australian tour with The Saints

2008: Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Victoria Jazz Festival, Toronto World Routes,

Veneto Jazz Festival (Italy) with Way Out West

Selected scores and commissions

2014: Solo percussion. Commissioned by Vanessa Tomlinson

2013: Australian Brass Quintet. Commission for prepared brass quintet premiered at Sydney International Festival of Brass

2012: Pin Drop. Radio version commissioned by ABC Radio

2011: Seddon Archives. Audio walk (with Tamara Saulwick) commissioned by Big West Festival

2011: Pin Drop. Electro acoustic score and sound design, solo theatre/dance by Tamara Saulwick (produced by Malthouse Theatre August 2011)

2010: Dot Dash. Quartet for prepared Bb trumpets. For International Trumpet Guild annual conference Sydney July 2010

2009: Press, score for short film by Mark Hennessy

2007: Spirals. For Dead Horse Wind and String Ensemble as part of Ground Elastic Sound curated by Kate Neal, premiered at The Forum in Melbourne

 

 

 

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Aaron Benson is fastly getting major recognition in the U.S, Europe and Japan for his C.D After The Rush distributed through http://www.newmarketmusic.com The C.D has received glowing reviews and acclaim for Aaron’s original tunes and very carefully selected covers. Very much a stylist with many influences including Jazz, Soul, Latin, R’n’B, Blues and Acid Jazz his playing sparkles with a pristine not overly effected guitar sound which is full of tantalizing melodies and expressive grooves. A complete bio and reviews can be found along with soundbites at the official website http://www.aaron-benson.com

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Pianist and composer Chris Cody has performed and recorded internationally for the last 25 years while based in Paris. He has headlined at many international festivals including Paris Quartiers d’Eté, London, Rome, Brussels Jazz Marathon, Marciac, Nantes, Ascona and Algiers and at a vast array of concert venues throughout the USA, Europe and Africa. He has worked with many outstanding international musicians including Rick Margitza, Roy Hargrove, Glenn Ferris, Carla Bruni, Annie Whitehead, Tina Arena, Michel Jonaz, Rhoda Scott and Herb Geller.

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He was a member of the judging panel for the 2014 Freedman Fellowship, Australia.

“Magical!” Piano Magazine, France

“Exhilarating … a feast of melody… an inspiration never at fault” JazzHot, France

“Full of music and future!” Le Monde, France

“A marvellous climate, between subtle arrangements and vast spaces of improvisation…” Jazz Magazine, France

“Very luminous jazz!” Télérama, France

“This is jazz that takes off for the heights” Figaroscope, France

“A European sensibility with a nod to Debussy” Rolling Stone

“Splendidly rich and varied” Jazzwise, U.K

“A performance full of colour, humour and rhythmic movement.” Sydney Morning Herald, Australia

“A fine mix of superior technical talent and youthful inventiveness” Variety USA

AWARDS :

2010 US Department of State Federal Award, Tour of Algeria

1999 Finalist Australian National Jazz Awards

1995 Finalist Tremplin Jazz Val d’Oise

1989 Best Jazz Composition, Australian Jazz Action Society

1989 Jack Chrotowsky Prize for Jazz Piano

1979 Finalist, Roger Woodward Classical Piano Scholarship

 

SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY :

Chris Cody Octet: Astrolabe, CCM

Chris Cody, Not My Lover, Wave Music

Jon Handelsman, Spirit House

– Bremner Duthrie: Kabarett 33 (pianist, arranger, producer)

– Paddy Sherlock, Electric Chop Shop (pianist, arranger)

– Tuesday Warren Luminescence Quartet: One Drop of Water

         – Tuesday Warren Luminescence Quartet: Si Seulement

– Jocelyn Moen, La Rouge Qui Bouge, (pianist, arranger, producer),(Roadsign)

– Wendy Lee Taylor, Compilation, Jewel, (Smoove Records, Japan)

– Chris Cody Coalition, Conscript (CHC001, Nocturne, France)

– Wendy Taylor: Lets Do It , pianist, arranger (Crystal CDM 16)

– Freyja: This Girl (pianist, arranger, producer), FR626

– Chris Cody Coalition with Glenn Ferris: Midnight Tide (Cristal/Harmonia Mundi)

– On The Corner: Four (Amrap)

– Chris Cody Coalition: Music for Don Juan (STC 501)

– Elisabeth Green, Biodiversity, (UWS BD02)

– Chris Cody Coalition: Oasis (Naxos 86018-2)

(APRA nomination for best jazz album 1998)

The Many Faces of Naxos Jazz (Naxos 86040)

– Chris Cody Coalition (Quoi de Neuf Docteur 032)

– Skander Guetari : Alwan (Bynzart, SG06131928)

– Gervais Koffe: The African Diaspora (Forest)

– Caroline Lynn: The Shaman’s Kiss (Newmarket 3113.2)

– Paddy Sherlock and the Jump Jive Five: The Louis Jordan Show

– Paddy Sherlock and the Swingin Lovers

– Jeff Hoffman: Good Thing (MDM 101)

– Beigel Daisy Toasts (Virgin France)

– Stefan Hugye: Sympathisers (Xopf 020)

Concerts

with Carla Bruni, Michel Jonasz, Tina Arena, Roy Hargrove, Antonio Hart, Rick Margitza, Rhoda Scott, Herb Geller, Glenn Ferris, Stephano di Battista, Yves Robert, Sonny Murray, Jason Marsalis, Marcel Azzola, Enrico Macias, Stéphane Belmondo, James Morrison, Barry Altschul, Frank Lacy, Annie Whitehead, Ari Brown, Graham Haynes, Sarah Lazarus, Steve Lehman, Dave O’Higgins, Joe Lee Wilson, Daniel Yvinec, François Théberge, Paris Jazz Orchestra, Lisa Simone, Caneiro Edmundo, Alfredo Rodriguez, Brice Wassy, Rasul Siddik, Wayne Dockery, George Brown, Fabio Morgera, Sangoma Everett, Peter Gritz, Prakash Sharwal, Amar Sundy, Carl Schlosser, Larry Gillespie, Jean-Loup Lognon, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Vic Pitts, Gordon Brisker, Don Burrows, Sandy Evans, Adrian Mears, Tim Hopkins, Miroslav Bukovsky, James Greening, Phil Slater, Julien Wilson etc.

Selected Festivals 

Festivals of London, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Marciac, Derry, Dars Es Salaam, Festival de Francophonie, Stockholm, Europe Youth Festival, Antwerp,, Marseille, Fête de la Fraternité, Les Rendez-Vous de L’Erdre, Ascona, Nantes, Le Havre, Quartiers d’Ete, Musiques à Bagatelle, Jazz Balade, L’Art 2000 Paris, Xopf New Music Basle, St. Tropez, Mégeves, Viasse, Man Ray Festival, Deauville, Martin Luther King, UNESCO Charlie Parker, Marcoussis, St. Cergues, St. Gilles Croix de Vie, Pau, New Music Festival Paris, Arts et Mouvants, France, Sydney Festival, Wangaratta, Newcastle, Manly, South American Music Festival of Sydney, Australian Music Festival, Australian Music Convention, Bach and Beyond, Australian International Music Show, etc.

 

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