My work quite naturally seeks out a unity and wholeness. Within this are integrated many aspects of contemporary music with no perceived barriers. My language is not ‘eclectic', but ‘distilled', drawing on elements of improvisation, electronica, song-writing and large-scale classical form. It seeks to develop presentational frameworks that extend notions of audience-performance relationships.
As well as composing for a wide range of performers and ensembles, much of my work is created for my own two groups, the Homemade Orchestra and MooV. This has led to the ability to search deeper and longer into areas of fascination and nurture richer, ongoing relationships with certain key performers.
I hope you like the music and I'd love to hear your comments about it.
My other projects:
MooV (www.moov.org.uk)
Homemade Orchestra
Piano Circus - Bill Bruford Project(www.myspace.com/pianocircuswithbillbruford)
Hi there! The Danish composer Per Nørgård's music has been much on my mind the past few years. Arguably the most important now living Scandinavian composer also has a remarkable output for the guitar. I spent a couple of years working with the composer on this repertoire, spanning from 1973 to 2000, in order to embrace the emerging performance practice associated with his work.
I have just uploaded 10 new tracks, all taken from "Tales From the North", my double CD box with the complete guitar works of Danish composer Per Nørgård. Also, in my latest blog you will find recent reviews of this release.
For further reading about the composer, this is an excellent website, with articles by a series of scholars and performers that have dedicated much study to his work:
"...some magnificent singing from one soloist (music composed by Matthew Lee Knowles)..." Howard Loxton , Review for the British Theatre Guide ****CRITICS CHOICE IN TIME-OUT MAGAZINE!!****
Thanks very much much for your lovely comment, I had a great time. The whole evening was amazing. Yeah, let's do MORE! Let me know when might be good to come down and talk about the recording.
hi colin, just dropped by for a listen..still not well enough for gigs at the mo sadly, but I'll be in touch later in the year if you still fancy it - hope you've found some good ones! cheers
The Takemitsu Society presents Members’ Concert Sunday 22 March 2009 at 3PM
Bauer & Hieber (Schott) Music 48 Great Marlborough Street London W1 (near Oxford Circus tube station)
Musical Gardening With a special presentation by the award winning Landscape Architect HARUKO SEKI Programme will include Toru Takemitsu Spirit Garden, In Autumn Garden (extracts from CDs) Andrew Melvin Dream Garden, MA Kosaku Yamada Karatachi no hana
Played by Andrew Melvin Composer/piano Emi Watanabe Japanese Flute Joel Bell Electric Guitar Sarah Robins Flute Ricardo Tejero Clarinet Junko Kobayashi Piano
Tickets at the door - £7 for members, £8 non members including refreshment Enquiries 020 7483 2396 Free for Children
Hi FOCO would like to wish you happy new ears for 2009. This year Musicalibre organize the XIII edition of International Festival Hurta Cordel. To see the information visit the web site of Lacasaencendida
Hi, Glad you enjoyed Mountain! A gig would be great - unfortunately I'm not too well at the moment and so I've had to take a break from live dates for a little while, which is frustrating! But I'm hoping to be back by the spring/summer, so will be in touch - think it could work!
I've had a great afternoon listening to some fabulous music today - really enjoying your tunes, feeling inspired now...and also a little crap about myself :)
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