SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2017: Finalist. APRA/AMC Art Music Awards. Instrumental Work of the Year. For Diomira
2016: Albert H Maggs Composition Prize (for Diomira commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra)
2016: Age/Music Victoria Awards: Jazz Album of the Year (for Way Out West)
2016: Green Room Theatre award. Design and Realisation for Endings with Tamara Saulwick
2015: Australian Music Prize (AMP) long list. For Daughter’s Fever
2015: Helpmann Award nomination for Endings, Best New Australian Work
2014: Australian Art Orchestra Award APRA/AMC Art Music Awards. Winner, Award for Excellence by an Organisation
2014: Music Omi New York
2014: APRA/AMC Art Music Awards. Award for Excellence by an Organisation. Australian Art Orchestra
2013: Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Alumnus of the Year
2013: Australia Council Music Fellowship (for 2013/14)
2013: Australian Arts in Asia awards. Finalist for Bright Splinters
2012: Australian Jazz Bell Awards. Winner ‘Most Original Australian Jazz Album’ for Fish Boast of Fishing.
2012: AIR Awards. Finalist for Jazz Album of the Year.
2012: APRA/AMC Art Music Awards. Finalist for Jazz Composition of the Year
2011: APRA/AMC Art Music Awards. Finalist for Award for Excellence with Way Out West
2011: Victorian Green Room Awards. Nomination for 'Best Composition and Sound Design' for Pin Drop
2009: Bell Award for ‘Australian Jazz Ensemble of the Year’ with Way Out West
2008: APRA Awards nomination, Jazz Composition of the Year
2007: Tom and Isobel Rolston Scholarship Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada)
2007: Griffith University full scholarship for doctoral studies in composition
2006: Myer Foundation grant for new sound installation work with Double Venturi
2004: Keith and Elizabeth Travelling Fellowship
2003: Alan C. Rose Memorial Fund Project Scholarship
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
2018: Paul Grabowsky Sextet - Moons of Jupiter. Besant Hall (UK)
2017: Australian Art Orchestra - Water Pushes Sand. Jazzhead (Aust)
2016: Peter Knight - Way Out West. Jazzhead (Aust)
2016: Paul Grabowsky - Nylipidgi. ABC Music
2016: Dave Douglas - Fabliaux. Greenleaf
2015: Daughter's Fever (self titled) with Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo), Erik Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson, Joe Talia and Andrew Brooks. HellosQuare
2014: Peter Knight/Dung Nguyen with Joe Talia, Blach Sifilchi, LENA, Tilman Robinson, Dan West. Re: Residual (remixes). Parentheses (Belgium)
2012: Peter Knight (solo), Allotrope, Listen Hear Collective (Aust)
2011: Peter Knight (sextet), Fish Boast of Fishing, Listen Hear Collective (Aust)
2011: Peter Knight/Dung Nguyen, Residual, Parentheses Records (Belgium)
2010: Way Out West, The Effects of Weather, Jazzhead/MGM (Aust)
2007: Way Out West, Old Grooves for New Streets, Jazzhead/MGM (Aust), Effendi Records (Canada)
2006: Peter Knight Quintet, All the Gravitation of Silence, Jazzhead/MGM (Aust)
2006: 5+2 Brass Ensemble, Invisible Cities and Other Works, Rufus Records/Universal (Aust)
2003: Way Out West, Footscray Station, Newmarket Music (Aust)
2001: Peter Knight Quartet, Between Two Moments, Newmarket Music (Aust)
RECENT SELECTED FESTIVALS AND CONCERTS
2019: Barunga Festival (Northern Territory) with Australian Art Orchestra and David and Daniel Wilfred (Ngukurr)
2019: MONA FOMA with Australian Art Orchestra and Striborg
2018: London Jazz Festival. Southbank Centre with Australian Art Orchestra, Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space
2018: Jazztopad Poland with Australian Art Orchestra, The Plains
2017: Jazztopad Poland
2017: GIOFest Glasgow
2017: Ten Days on the Island (Tasmania). Acoustic Life of Sheds with Claire Edwardes. Produced by BighART
2017: Sydney Festival. Sex Lynch and Video Games. The Australian Art Orchestra with Nicole Lizée
2016: Under the Wire. Curation of sound for Melbourne Festival film screening. Composition of score for 911 by Rick Charnoski
2016: Museum of Old And New Art Hobart (TAS). Sound design and composition for Cameron Robbins' Field Lines exhibition. On display until December 2016
2016: Melbourne International Jazz Festival with Peter Knight's Way Out West
2016: Four Winds Festival (Bermagui, NSW) with Ensemble Offspring performing Phillip Glass' Music with Changing Parts
2016: Perth Festival with Jon Tarry and Cameron Robbins, world premiere of Dark Mirror White Noise
2016: MONA FOMA (Tasmania) various performances
2016: Sydney Festival, Australian Art Orchestra and Ensemble Offspring, Exit Ceremonies
2016: Festival of Live Art, Arts House, Melbourne. World premiere of 'Alter' Audio visual work with Tamara Saulwick
2015: OzAsia Festival, Water Pushes Sand, new work premiere with Australian Art Orchestra
2015: Corpus. Score for dance work, premiere Schwankhalle Bremen, Germany
2015: Jazzahead Bremen (Germany). Australian Art Orchestra, Crossing Roper Bar
2015: MONA FOMA (Tasmania) Australian Art Orchestra, Crossing Roper Bar
2015: Sydney Festival Endings (theatre) with Tamara Saulwick and Paddy Mann
2014: Allotrope solo tour Aarhus Festival (Denmark), Copenhagen Jazzhouse
2014: Australian Art Orchestra Canadian tour
2013: Allotrope solo tour Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Yokohama, Seoul, New York, Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco.
2012: Allotrope solo tour Singapore (Sonorous Duration Festival), Denmark (LAK Soundart Festival), UK (Café Oto), Slovenia (Earzoom Festival Ljubljana and International Computer Music Conference), Italy (Venice), Australia (Restrung Festival Brisbane)
2012: Performances with Lindsay Vickery and Stuart James Slovenia (Earzoom Festival Ljubljana), Italy (Naples Conservatorium)
Pin Drop (hybrid theatre work with electroacoustic score. Collaboration with Tamara Saulwick) National tour Sydney (Carriageworks) Hobart (Salamanca Arts Centre) Cairns (Centre of Contemporary Arts)
2012: Fish Boast of Fishing premiere Melbourne Recital Centre for Melbourne Jazz Festival
2012: Bright Splinters (with vocalist/multi media artist, Sunny Kim) World Expo Yeosu Korea
2012: Allotrope solo concerts at Dotolim Seoul and Artspace Don Quixote Suncheon (South Korea)
2011: Bright Splinters. Recording and concert performances in Seoul
2011: Queensland Music Festival with Clocked Out Band Radio Plays
2011: Pin Drop. Malthouse season Melbourne
2011: Australian tour with NY saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff and pianist Matt Mitchell
2011: Melbourne International Jazz Festival Quinsin Nachoff and 5+2 Brass Ensemble
2011: Chendu Spring Festival (Sichuan China) with Wide Alley
2010: Pin Drop. Performances at Arts House North Melbourne
2010 National tour of Australia (12 dates) with Way Out West to launch The Effects of Weather, tour produced by Sound Travellers
2010 Canadian tour with Erik Griswold's Wide Alley including Vancouver Jazz Festival and Ottawa Jazz Festival. Album recording and release
2009 Solo concert for Labor Sonor at KuLe Berlin
2009 Tour of Japan including Takatsuki Jazz Street Festival Osaka with Way Out West
2009: Tour of Korea with Way Out West
2009: Sydney Opera House with Erik Griswold’s Wide Alley
2009: Auckland Festival with Erik Griswold’s Wide Alley
2009: All Tomorrow’s Parties Australian tour with The Saints
2008: Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Victoria Jazz Festival, Toronto World Routes,
Veneto Jazz Festival (Italy) with Way Out West
SELECTED SCORES AND COMMISSIONS
2018: Sharp Folds commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra
2017: Radiophonic version of Endings commissioned by ABC Radio National for Soundproof. Listen
2016: Diomira. For 11 piece improvising chamber group with electronics. Commissioned by Australian Art Orchestra for Metropolis New Music Festival 2016
2016: Sound design and composition for Cameron Robbins' Field Lines exhibition. On display until December 2016 Museum of Old And New Art Hobart (TAS)
2015: Alter. Audio visual work for 16 iPads with Tamara Saulwick. Commissioned by Arts House
2015: Corpus. Electroacoustic dance score for Schwankhalle, Bremen, Germany
2014: Make Them Dance for bass drums, amplifiers, pedals and various objects. Commissioned by Vanessa Tomlinson
2013: Quintet for Extended Brass. Commissioned by the Australian Brass Quintet for Sydney International Festival of Brass
2012: Pin Drop. Radiophonic version commissioned by ABC Radio National. Listen
2011: Seddon Archives. Audio walk (with Tamara Saulwick) commissioned by Big West Festival
2011: Pin Drop. Electro acoustic score and sound design, solo theatre/dance by Tamara Saulwick (produced by Malthouse Theatre August 2011)
2010: Dot Dash. Quartet for prepared Bb trumpets. For International Trumpet Guild annual conference Sydney July 2010
2009: Press, score for short film by Mark Hennessy
2007: Spirals. For Dead Horse Wind and String Ensemble as part of Ground Elastic Sound curated by Kate Neal, premiered at The Forum in Melbourne