{"id":1799,"date":"2016-05-16T22:48:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T22:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2016-05-16T22:48:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T22:48:25","slug":"monday-mark-manuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2016\/05\/16\/monday-mark-manuel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monday with Mark and Manuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Jeremy Hunt, Music Undergraduate Student<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Monday 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0May,\u00a0London-based pianist Mark Knoop and Italian flautist Manuel Zurria performed an exciting, modern programme of works by Laurence Crane, Conlon Nancarrow, Howard Skempton, Beat Furrer, and the University of Southampton\u2019s very own composition lecturer, Matthew Shlomowitz. All of the pieces showcased different, contemporary approaches for writing for the flute and piano, with Matthew\u2019s piece (<em>Left, Right, Up, Down, Pogo<\/em>) exploring the theatricality of flute-playing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1800\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2016\/05\/16\/monday-mark-manuel\/image14\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1800\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/05\/image14.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel Zurria (flute) and Mark Knoop (piano), with Matthew Shlomowitz (standing), and Jeremy Hunt \" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/05\/image14.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/05\/image14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/05\/image14-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/05\/image14-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/05\/image14-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manuel Zurria (flute), Mark Knoop (piano), with Matthew Shlomowitz (standing), \u00a0Jeremy Hunt. \u00a0<em>photo: Christian Drew<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0lunchtime concert was\u00a0followed by a workshop with composers in the Turner Sims,\u00a0featuring five new pieces by undergraduate and postgraduate composers. The pieces explored a variety of styles, ranging from minimalism to the exploration of contemporary flute and piano techniques, but Mark and Manuel were equally impressive in all of them. My piece,\u00a0<em>Happy New Year<\/em>, set them the challenge of performing with a click-track, so that they could play perfectly in time along to a\u00a0speech by David Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop was an extremely valuable experience for all of the composers, as we managed to have our pieces critiqued and played live by a couple of professional musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Hunt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeremyhuntmusic.com\/\">www.jeremyhuntmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeremy Hunt, Music Undergraduate Student On Monday 9th\u00a0May,\u00a0London-based pianist Mark Knoop and Italian flautist Manuel Zurria performed an exciting, modern programme of works by Laurence Crane, Conlon Nancarrow, Howard Skempton, Beat Furrer, and the University of Southampton\u2019s very own composition lecturer, Matthew Shlomowitz. All of the pieces showcased different, contemporary approaches for writing for the flute and piano, with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[522211,207,1],"tags":[1057331,643630,521646],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition","category-performance","category-uncategorized","tag-manuel-zurria","tag-mark-knoop","tag-matthew-shlomowitz","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YgXZ-t1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}