Stuart Oliver Knussen CBE (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor. Among the most influential...

"grotesques". When working on the 1983 opera adaptation of the book with Oliver Knussen, Sendak gave the monsters the names of his relatives: Tzippy, Moishe...

nine scenes, by Oliver Knussen to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own 1963 children's book of the same title. Knussen composed the music...

Asko Ensemble and the Ensemble Modern, often under the direction of Oliver Knussen, who was, until his death in 2018, a regular collaborator and advocate...

Danish footballer Oliver Knight (born 1969), British singer-songwriter Oliver Knight (cyclist) (born 2001), British cyclist Oliver Knussen (1952–2018), English...

Silence, 5. Knussen, Oliver, Liner notes to Takemitsu: Quotation of Dream, performed by Paul Crossley/Peter Serkin/London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen, Deutsche...

since 2000. Composers have also written concertos in the 21st century. Oliver Knussen's Violin Concerto, Op. 30, written for Pinchas Zukerman, premièred in...

championing new compositions,[citation needed] including works by John Adams, Oliver Knussen, Thomas Adès, and Luca Francesconi. In 2008–09 she performed the world...

In 2012, the Festival's Artist in Residence was composer-conductor Oliver Knussen, a former artistic director of the Festival, and featured works by Helmut...

Anderson [pupils] Simon Bainbridge [pupils] Gary Carpenter David Fanshawe Oliver Knussen [pupils] Jonathan Lloyd Ian McQueen Carlos Miranda Barrington Pheloung...

undergraduate at Cambridge, and then afterwards with Simon Bainbridge and Oliver Knussen at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2016 she was a Composition Fellow...

Peter Maxwell Davies and at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oliver Knussen. In 1986 Vir was a composition fellow at Tanglewood. The following year...

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen, for the composer's 100th birthday. In 2009, he performed Knussen's Horn Concerto with the BBC Symphony...

first performed by its dedicatees, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen, in March 1992, and repeated at the 1992 Proms. It was recorded in 1994...

been performed by many notable conductors such as: Sir Mark Elder, Oliver Knussen, Daniel Harding, and Jac van Steen. Charlotte Bray was born in Oxford...

Songs I and II. Other works from this decade include Cyclops 2000 for Oliver Knussen and the London Sinfonietta; Ashberyana, settings of poetry by John Ashbery;...

Stenz served as music director from 1994 to 1998; he was succeeded by Oliver Knussen from 1998 to 2002. Following 10 years as the ensemble's Education Officer...

Michael Tilson Thomas (=Mi Ti Ti), used by Oliver Knussen in Flourish with fireworks. Thomas commissioned Knussen for the opening concert of his first season...

has made many recordings with guest conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oliver Knussen, Kurt Sanderling, Yoel Levi, Riccardo Chailly, George Benjamin, Roberto...

Cambridge University and premiered at the Barbican Hall in London under Oliver Knussen. The work is scored for a chamber ensemble of 14 players, which consists...

Leigh Melrose and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Oliver Knussen. Figment V for marimba was premiered in New York on May 2, 2009, by...

other conductors, including Matthias Bamert, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Oliver Knussen and José Serebrier. Although Ravel's version is most often performed...

Interplay, to music by Morton Gould, 1945 In the Mi(d)st, to music by Oliver Knussen, 2002 In the Night, to music by Frédéric Chopin, 1970 In Vento, Bruno...

times previously, including for Tchaikovsky's Vakula the Smith (1874). Oliver Knussen writes that "Rimsky is only interested in recreating the atmosphere...

Deutsche Grammophon include Hildur Guðnadóttir, Sofia Gubaidulina, Oliver Knussen, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Mohammed Fairouz, Péter Eötvös, Luigi Nono, Sven...

Originals) Best Contemporary Composition Elliott Carter (composer), Oliver Knussen (conductor) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Violin Concerto Best...

UK presents "Klang: A Tribute to Stockhausen", a festival curated by Oliver Knussen, with a series of concerts focusing on works from the composer's last...

writer, composer and violinist. He studied under Peter Maxwell Davies, Oliver Knussen and Judith Weir, and has written classical works, scores for theatre...

Zealand Symphony Orchestra 1996, Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic 2004, Oliver Knussen, Cleveland Orchestra 2005, José Serebrier, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra...

soloist Steven Isserlis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Knussen. The composition, which has a performance time of approximately 45 minutes...