SHADOW PHASE out now on ROOM40
NOW WE ARE BRANCHES AND LEAVES with øjeRum out now on 12K
MOKUY by Hand to Earth out now on ROOM40
CROSSED & RECROSSED out now on Hospital Hill
“If trumpet is an element then Knight is an alchemist” New York City Jazz Record
Now We Are Branches And Leaves, out now on the iconic New York label 12K, is a longform work clocking in at an hour’s length. It is a meditative study of repeating piano motifs that ground the piece, and ethereal trumpet and electronic subtleties providing tangential traces.
øjeRum (Paw Grabowski): Piano, Synthesizer
Peter Knight: Trumpet, Electronics
I have been appointed to Banff Centre for the Arts faculty for ‘Soundweavings’ intercultural music residency program April 27 to May 10 2025.
It’s going to be an incredible two weeks in an absolutely stunning environment. The Banff Centre has provided me with some of the most transformative experiences of my life as both student and resident artist, and I’m so glad to have to opportunity to give back through helping shape this program with incredible musicians from around the world.
The Prey and the Ruler was developed for live performance in 2024 in Yogjakarta and makes its Australian premiere for AsiaTOPA festival 6th March Arts Centre Melbourne. Featuring: Senyawa - Rully Shabara (voice/electronics) and Wukir Suryadi (bespoke string instruments), Aviva Endean (clarinets and winds), Lawrence English (electronics), and Peter Knight (trumpet/electronics)
The Prey and the Ruler ROOM40 (2022).
15th November Melbourne Recital Centre Australian Art Orchestra 30th Anniversary concert featuring The Plains composed by Peter Knight.
The Plains is released on Peter Knight’s album with the Australian Art Orchestra, Crossed & Recrossed
“Like a heart straining to contain more happiness than it was built to hold.” Bandcamp Best Jazz August 2021 Out now on Hospital Hill. Limited ed vinyl available.
Off the Beaten Track (Longe da Estrada), with original music by Peter Knight premieres at Lisboa Film Festival (Leffest) on 14th November. Directed by Hugo Vieira Da Silva. Off the Beaten Track is about French artist, Paul Gaugin, in Tahiti through the perspective of poet Victor Segalen.
Hand to Earth was announced winner of Experimental or Avant-Garde Work of the Year for Mokuy at the Music Victoria Awards announced on October 25th in Melbourne.
Solo album, Shadow Phase, featuring Tony Buck & Fia Fiell out on Room40. Named is Headphone Commute Best of 2022. Read Peter’s words on making of Shadow Phase HERE
Produced by Lawrence English it explores a different side to the group. "Soaring soundscapes, riding woodwind waves beyond the horizon, buoying spiraling, utterly captivating" FOXY DIGITALIS
Swing Bridge featuring first recordings of Alvin Lucier commissioned and produced by Peter Knight for Australian Art Orchestra, featuring Austin Buckett, now out on Mode Bandcamp Best Releases. Named in Bandcamp Best Contemporary Classical Releases
Five star reviews for ‘1988’ at OzAsia Festival on 24th October
“While 1988 told of Nguyễn’s personal experience as an immigrant, it was a concert of unique and exquisite music, brilliantly arranged and performed.” * * * * * LIMELIGHT
“Well-deserving of the enthusiastic standing ovation it garnered.” * * * * * GLAM ADELAIDE
Perpetually curious, composer/trumpeter Peter Knight’s practice exists in the spaces between categories, between genres & between cultures.
From 2013-23 Peter was the Artistic Director and co-CEO of the Australian Art Orchestra, for which he commissioned over 100 compositions and collaborations from a diverse range of international and Australian artists. He also composed for, and performed in the company, presenting his works at international festivals and venues in more than a dozen countries winning awards including four AMC Art Music Awards, the Albert H Maggs Composition Prize, and numerous ARIA nominations.
Peter has maintained an active solo career developing an international reputation as a innovator who is extending the possibilities of his instrument with approaches that interweave acoustic preparations, extended techniques with electroacoustic processing via laptop, vintage delays, tape machines, and pedals. His latest solo release, Shadow Phase, is out on the ROOM40 label, described by Headphone Commute as, "a carefully curated exercise in reflective restraint, dreamy atmospherics, ebbing dynamics.”
Peter’s current touring projects include ARIA nominated, Hand to Earth, featuring Yolngu songkeepers, Daniel & David Wilfred (MOKUY ROOM40), his solo work, Shadow Phase, and a new collaboration with Indonesian duo, Senyawa (The Prey and the Ruler ROOM40).
Peter also composes for film and recently completed the score for soon to be released Australian feature, Kid Snow (in collaboration with Warren Ellis). He works in contemporary theatre, most notably with acclaimed director, Tamara Saulwick (Chamber Made) with whom he has made five works that blur the boundaries between theatre and music performance that have toured to major international festivals and won three Green Room awards.
Peter was a Creative Australia Music Fellow 2013-14. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Griffith University and was named its 2013 Alumnus of the Year. He is a board member of Melbourne’s iconic arts centre, The Substation. He was also recently appointed to faculty for the Soundweavings intercultural music residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada.
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“A sonic world of wonder, warmth, and possibility.” The Saturday Paper (review of Shadow Phase)
“Solos here were like songlines, not paving superhighways through a compositional infrastructure but leaving faint footprints in a soundscape that evolved as organically as an ecosystem.” Downbeat
“Hard to categorise… hauntingly memorable” The Wire (UK)
“Hand to Earth is a truly exquisite album” * * * * * Songlines Magazine (UK)
“If trumpet is an element then Knight is an alchemist.” New York City Jazz Record
June 14th
Jersey City Theatre Centre New York - Hand to Earth TICKETS
June 15th
Lincoln Centre New York - Hand to Earth THE CROW (US premiere) in partnership with Jazztopad Festival DETAILS
June 16th
Public Records Brooklyn - with Hamid Drake and Hand to Earth for Jazztopad Festival
June 19th
Suoni Per Il Popolo Montreal with Hand to Earth THE CROW DETAILS
June 22nd
Ottawa Jazz Festival with Hand to Earth THE CROW DETAILS
June 26th
Vancouver Jazz Festival with Hand to Earth THE CROW DETAILS
June 28th
Vancouver Jazz Festival duo with JP Carter DETAILS
July 19th
Brisbane Powerhouse for OPEN FRAME with Hand to Earth DETAILS
July 20th
Brisbane Powerhouse for OPEN FRAME solo - Shadow Phase DETAILS
July 22nd
Monday Night Confessions, Sydney - Linda May Han Oh, Peter Knight solo DETAILS
July 24th
Sydney Opera House - Sydney Symphony Orchestra, featured soloist in Wata composed by Paul Grabowsky DETAILS
August 14th
Performance at APRA/AMCOS Art Music Awards: Peter Knight, Daniel Wilfred & David Wilfred. Malthouse Theatre Melbourne
August 15th and 20th
Kid Snow screenings and artist talks at Melbourne International Film Festival
September 11-16
Paris for creative development of new work, Reality Hunger, with Nadia Ratsimandresy. Produced by Full Rhizome
October 14th
The Bunker Singapore solo and in collaboration with Tim O’Dwyer and SA Collective
November 15th
Australian Art Orchestra 30th Anniversary at The Malthouse Melbourne performing The Plains
