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Name:: matthewleeknowles
About:: I completed my composition degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2008, under Richard Baker and Paul Newland. My final portfolio received the Frank Prindl Prize for the highest mark. Whilst there I performed many times, wrote several theatre scores and instigated exhibitions and collaborations. I am a composer, poet, piano teacher, pianist and events organiser. I have also written articles, conducted interviews, directed and written for the theatre and travelled across the globe as a performance artist/musician. In 2008 Anton Lukoszevieze chose me to perform Stockhausen’s extremely challenging Goldstaub which required me to live without thought or food in isolation for four days then play the piano to open the SAN/BBC Cut & Splice Festival. Other performances include: Kondo’s Metaphonesis for solo piano, Cage’s Music for Amplified Toy Pianos and Ligeti’s Poeme Symphonique (both at King’s Place). My music has being heard on French radio (2010, arrangements of W
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