Mark Knoop has studied piano in Melbourne with Stephen McIntyre, and in Europe with Herbert Henck and Peter Feuchtwanger. He is co-artistic director of the Libra Ensemble, and has also performed with such groups as ELISION, the Melbourne Symphony, Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Offspring. He performs regularly as pianist and conductor, and has given premieres of works by Chris Dench, Ben Marks, Adam Yee and Matthew Shlomowitz.

Recent performances have included the premiere of Chris Dench’s solo piano work The Heart’s Algorithms, alongside the Boulez first piano sonata and Michael Finnissy’s Recent Britain in the third concert of Libra’s 2000 season. Other performances with Libra in 2000 included Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, as well as Varèse’s Octandre and Henze’s Kammermusik 1958 as conductor.