Adrian Knight (composer)
Adrian Knight (born 1987 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a composer[1] living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Between 2006 and 2009 he studied with Pär Lindgren and Jesper Nordin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and between 2009 and 2011 with David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Martin Bresnick and Ezra Laderman at the Yale School of Music[2] in New Haven.
His music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Living Earth Show, the Swedish Wind Ensemble, Red Light New Music, loadbang, Yale Philharmonia and Kungliga Musikhögskolans Symfoniorkester. In 2011, he composed the music for a Yale School of Drama production of Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Since 2008, he has operated what he calls “the smallest record label in the world”, Pink Pamphlet.[3]
Knight's works are published by Schott Music New York through their new digital initiative Project Schott New York,[4] Svensk Musik[5] and Pink Pamphlet.[6] He is a member of Fylkingen[7] and the Society of Swedish Composers.[8]
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Works [edit]
- Cabrini–Green for disklavier and electronic instruments (2008)
- comblé for orchestra (2010)
- Daedaldualism for electric guitar, synthesizer and live electronics (2007)
- Death of Paneloux for piano and fixed electronics (2009)
- Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights for actors, chorus and prerecorded tracks (2011)
- Family Man for electric guitar and percussion (2011-2012)
- Lines for Jenny for baritone, flute, viola, double bass and 2 percussionists (2007–2008)
- Livet Innanför Väggarna (Life inside Walls) for 2 violas, cello and double bass (2008–2009)
- Long Gone John for fixed electronics (4ch) (2012)
- Manchester for large orchestra with electronics (2008)
- Mary's Waltz for 13 players (2011)
- Mary's Waltz for 16 players (2012)
- Mary's Waltz for keyboard, double bass and percussion (2011)
- Mary's Waltz for keyboard, double bass, 2 percussionists and electric guitar (2011)
- Metahymn for fixed electronics (4ch) (2008)
- Pulse and Vibration for 2 pianos (2008–2009)
- Ricky Bruch for 5 micro modular synthesizers (2008)
- Ted Bundy's Requiem for fixed electronics (8ch) (2011)
- The Caligari Project for clarinet, viola, violoncello, accordion/electronics, piano, percussion (2010)
- The Dividing Line (collaboration with Laura Grey) audiovisual performance (4ch audio/4ch video) (2009–2010)
- The Interiors Of Me (collaboration with Seoyoung Shin) for textiles, prints, live electronics (2ch) (2010)
- The Tears for harp and electronics (2 players) (2010)
- Till minne av for 16 solo strings (2009)
- Trio for violin/viola, violoncello, piano and live electronics (2011)
- Unruhe for 6 electric guitars with e-bows and volume pedals (2008)
- Vain Attempts for piano and fixed electronics (2ch) (2007–2008)
- Världens Undergång for fixed electronics (4ch) (2009)
- 20 Maj for voice, trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet and optional electronics (2010)
Discography [edit]
- Night Flight (2012)
- Time Of My Life (2011)
- Pink Pamphlet 2 (2010)
- Världens undergång (2009)
- Ricky Bruch Album (2008)
