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SHADOW PHASE out now on ROOM40

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

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Peter Knight appointed to Banff Centre faculty 'Soundweavings' residency

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 AsiaTOPA premiere

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).

The Plains performance for AAO 30th Anniversary 15th Nov

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.

PORTUGUESE/FRENCH FEATURE, OFF THE BEATEN TRACK, PREMIERE AT LEFFEST LISBOA FILM FESTIVAL 14TH NOVEMBER 2024

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 wins Music Victoria award

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.

Shadow Phase solo album on ROOM40

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

Mokuy by Hand to Earth available now from ROOM40

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 released on Mode Records

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

'1988' OzAsia Festival Five Star reviews

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

Peter Knight - composer/trumpeter/PRODUCER

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

Full CV here

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