Peter Knight (musician)

Peter Knight (born 12 March 1965) is an Australian musician and composer. He is the artistic director of the Australian Art Orchestra and founding member of Melbourne group Way Out West.[1] He is also well known for his solo albums Fish Boast of Fishing (2011)[2] and Allotrope (2012) and composition for theatre in particular with performance maker Tamara Saulwick.[3]

Dr. Peter Knight
2014
Background information
Born (1965-03-12) 12 March 1965
Orbost, Australia
GenresJazz, Experimental
Occupation(s)Composer, Musician, Artistic director
InstrumentsTrumpet, electronics
Years active1990–present

Early life

Peter Knight grew up in Orbost in country Victoria then went to school in Melbourne. He started playing trumpet when he was at primary school.[4]

Groups
Group Instruments
Australian Art OrchestraPeter Knight, Artistic director, Composer, Trumpet and Electronics
Way Out West Trumpet
5+2 Brass Ensemble Trumpet
Daughter's Fever Trumpet, Electronics and Bass[5]

Career

Knight played trumpet and electric bass in rock bands through his 20s including Cattletruck,[6] which toured Australia extensively.[7] He also toured and recorded with Big Pig,[8] Frente,[9] Underground Lovers,[10] You Am I[11] Spiderbait and many others.

In the late nineties he concentrated on jazz and released his debut album as leader of Peter Knight Quartet in 2001 Between Two Moments.[12][13] The album was positively received and the Quartet toured nationally.[14]

Way out west was formed in 2002 with the intention of exploring jazz as a global language while simultaneously responding to Knight's local neighbourhood, Melbourne's inner west.[15] The band has since released four albums mostly of Knight's compositions. They have won numerous awards and nominations and have played at major music festivals including Montreal, Veneto and Vancouver jazz festivals.[16][17]

In 2013 Knight became Artistic Director of Australian Art Orchestra (AAO), following 20 years with the group's founder pianist and composer Paul Grabowsky.[18] Under Knight, the group has pursued a more contemporary direction, collaborating with a number of well respected international composers, including Canadian composer Nicole Lizée[19][20] and Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya.[21] The development of their collaborations with Australian indigenous musicians, and musicians from Asia has continued under Knight's direction receiving critical acclaim.[22] In 2014 the group won the AMC Art Music Award for Organisation of the Year at the APRA Awards.

In 2014 Knight was a Music Omi musician in residence at Omi International Arts Center, Hudson, New York.[23]

In 2016 Knight won Albert H. Maggs Composition Award for his work Diomira. The winning work was commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra and premiered at the Metropolis New Music Festival in May. This award came in the form of a commission to develop the piece into a full-length concert work.[24]

In 2017 Knight performed at the 14th Jazztopad festival in Poland during the Melting Pot concerts[25][26]

At OzAsia 2017, Knight curated a concert program for the festival that saw the AAO collaborating with ghuzeng player Mindy Meng, Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya, p’ansori singer Bae Il Dong (Korea) and traditional songman from Arnhem Land, Daniel Wilfred.[27]

Projects with Tamara Saulwick

Knight also works extensively with his partner, Tamara Saulwick, who is an internationally renowned performance maker and artistic director of Chamber Made.[28] Together they have made a number of works: Pin Drop, which won a Green Room Award in 2010 for Outstanding Production in Alternative and Hybrid Performance and was nominated for Best Composition and Sound Design.[29] The pair was also commissioned by the ABC to turn this project into a radiophonic work[30]

Pin Drop toured Australia and also played in Glasgow at Tramway in 2014.[31]

Alterwas a performance using a constructed sound and light installation featuring 16 iPads (each participant used an iPad during the performance).[32] The piece was commissioned for the Festival of Live Art by Arts House.[33]

Seddon Archives was a headphone audio walk commissioned by Big West Festival.[34] Endings which won a 2016 Green Room Award[35] and toured through 2017-18 to Canadian Stage (Toronto), Brighton Festival (UK), Dublin Theatre Festival,[36] pUsh Festival Vancouver[37] and On the Boards (Seattle). The ABC commissioned a radiophonic version of Endings in 2016.[38]

Awards

Academic achievements

Knight holds an MMus Master in Music Performance from University of Melbourne (VCA) and is also a Doctor of Musical Arts, which was awarded by Queensland of Conservatorium Griffith University QCGU. In 2013 he was awarded QCGU Alumnus of the Year.[39]

Other awards
  • 2017 - Finalist for Instrumental Work of the Year for Diomira at APRA/AMC Art Music Awards[40]
  • 2016 - Won Best jazz album for Way Out West at The Age Music Victoria Awards[41]
  • 2016 - Won the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award for Diomira[42]
  • 2016 - Won Jazz Album of the Year for Way Out West at The Age/Music Victoria Awards[43]
  • 2016 - Nominated for Individual Award for Excellence at APRA/AMC Art Music Awards[44]
  • 2016 - Won Green Room Theatre Award (for Endings with Tamara Saulwick)[45][46]
  • 2015 - Nominated for Australian Music Prize (AMP) long list For Daughter’s Fever[47]
  • 2015 - Nominated for Helpmann Award, Tamara Sualwick's Endings, Best New Australian Work[48]
  • 2014 - Australian Art Orchestra won the Award for Excellence by an Organisation at APRA/AMC Art Music Awards[49]
  • 2013 - Granted the Australia Council Music Fellowship (for 2013/14)[50]
  • 2013 - Finalist for Australian Arts in Asia awards, for Bright Splinters[51]
  • 2012 - Peter Knight's Fish Boast of Fishing won Most Original Australian Jazz Album at Australian Jazz Bell Awards[52]
  • 2012 - Finalist, Fish Boast Of Fishing for Best Independent Jazz Album at AIR Awards[53]
  • 2012 - Finalist, Unknowness 1 for Jazz Composition of the Year at APRA/AMC Art Music Awards[54]
  • 2011 - Finalist, Award for Excellence by an Organisation or an Individual with Way Out West at APRA/AMC Art Music Awards[55]
  • 2011 - Nominated for Best Composition and Sound Design for Victorian Green Room Awards (for Pin Drop with Tamara Saulwick)[56]
  • 2009 - Way Out West album Old Grooves for New Streets won Best Australian Jazz Ensemble at Australian Jazz Bell Awards[57]
  • 2008 - Nominated for Jazz Composition of the Year for Postcard from Footscray by Way Out West at APRA Awards
  • 2007 - Tom and Isobel Rolston Scholarship Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada)[58]
  • 2007 - Griffith University full scholarship for doctoral studies in composition[58]
  • 2006 - Myer Foundation grant for new sound installation work with Double Venturi[58]
  • 2004 - Keith and Elizabeth Travelling Fellowship[58]
  • 2003 - Alan C. Rose Memorial Fund Project Scholarship[58]

Selected discography

With Peter Knight Quartet
Year Title Label
2001 Between Two Moments Newmarket Music

With Peter Knight Quintet
Year Title Label
2006 All the Gravitation of Silence Jazzhead

With Way Out West
Year Title Label
2003 Footscray Station Newmarket Music
2007 Old Grooves for New Streets Jazzhead
2010 The Effects of Weather Jazzhead
2016 Way Out West Jazzhead

As Peter Knight

Residual 2011 Released on Parentheses Peter Knight and Dun Nguyen

Year Title Label
2011 Fish Boast of Fishing Listen Hear Collective
2012 (solo) - Allotrope Listen Hear Collective
2016 Jazzhead Way Out West Jazzhead

As Peter Knight and Dung Nguyen
Year Title Label
2011 Residual Parenthèses Records[59]
2014 Re: Residual (remixes), featuring Joe Talia, Blach Sifilchi, LENA, Tilman Robinson, Dan West Parenthèses Records[60]

With Australian Art Orchestra
Year Title Label
2003 Footscray Station Newmarket Music
2007 Old Grooves for New Streets Jazzhead
Ringing The Bell Backwards AAO 2008
2010 The Effects of Weather Jazzhead
2017 Water Pushes Sand Jazzhead

With Paul Grabowsky
Year Title Label Instrument
2017 Moons of Jupiter ABC Jazz Laptop[61]
2016 Paul Grabowsky and Monash Art Ensemble Nyilipidgi ABC Music Electronics, Trumpet[62]

With 5+2 Brass Ensemble
Year Title Label
2006 Invisible Cities and Other Works Rufus Records/Universal

With Clocked Out
Year Title Label Instrument
2009 Clocked Out The Wide Alley Clocked Out Productions[63]

With Tilman Robinson
Year Title Label Instrument
2013 Network of Lines Independently Released Trumpet, Laptop[64]

With Daughter's Fever
Year Title Label Instrument
2015 Daughter's Fever HellosQuare Trumpet, Electronics and Bass

With Dave Douglas and Monash Art Ensemble
Year Title Label Instrument
2016 Fabliaux Greenleaf Electronics
gollark: Minmus was good, since I could ship a big mass driver to it too.
gollark: Not very well, everything ends up floating around unstably.
gollark: Ah, yes, like that time I tried to put a shipyard on Gilly.
gollark: Maybe just have the main bit be Pluto/Charon with the other bodies added in some small way.
gollark: The bident thing might work to reflect the whole "binary system" thing.
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