Recent and Upcoming Performances

Inferner Park

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:30, Sunday 30 June 2024
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus Ensemble musicians Mira Benjamin and Mark Knoop present works for violin and piano, and are joined by Belgian recorder trio Apsara performing Matthew Shlomowitz and Jasper Vanpaemel.

Inferner Park

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:00, Tuesday 2 July 2024
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
EH8 9AG Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Jitterbug

Apartment House

19:30, Thursday 4 July 2024
Queen Elizabeth Hall (external link)
Southbank Centre
SE1 8XX London
United Kingdom

As part of the Sound Within Sound festival, Apartment House (external link) presents works by Lockwood and Maceda.

Christian Wolff at 90

Apartment House

music we’d like to hear

19:30, Friday 5 July 2024
St Mary at Hill (external link)
Lovat Lane
EC3R 8EE London
United Kingdom

Born in Nice in 1934, composing music since 1950 and still creating unique and extraordinary music seven decades later, we present a programme of Christian Wolff's music from the last 15 years. Performed by those that know and have worked often with the composer, Apartment House (external link), Angharad Davies, John Lely and Tim Parkinson. Also featuring a specially assembled group of seven electric guitars spearheaded by James Creed.

Wild Flowers

Brisbane Music Festival

16:00, Saturday 24 August 2024
14:00, Sunday 25 August 2024
FourthWall Arts
540 Queen Street
Brisbane Queensland
Australia

Mark Knoop brings a scintillating programme featuring colourful Debussy and visceral Ustvolskaya, and is joined by Alex Raineri for Finnissy (external link)'s Wild Flowers

Constellations

20:00, Friday 30 August 2024
Tempo Rubato (external link)
34 Breese St
Melbourne Victoria
Australia

Mark Knoop returns to Melbourne with a programme drawn from imagery. Debussy’s impressionist Préludes and Feldman (external link)’s final solo piano work take real or imagined situations as their starting point. In Rósa Lind (external link)'s Trente, Wassily Kandinsky’s 1937 monochrome grid canvas is exploded into a wealth of allusions and mythologies surrounding the astronomical constellations.

Waves of crashing darkness

Another Sky

19:30, Friday 20 September 2024
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd
E2 9PA London
United Kingdom

The premiere of a new piece for piano, electronics and fixed audiovisual media developed in collaboration with Sam Salem (external link) أسامة سالم. The festival opening night concert also features works and performances by Thorayya Kaddoura ثريّا قدّورة, Kareem Samara كريم سمارة, Soosan Lolavar سوسن لولااور, Colin Alexander, Zeynep Toraman, Distractfold Ensemble, and BINT بنت.

Parkinson/Fargion

Plus-Minus Ensemble

20:00, Monday 7 October 2024
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Action Music

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:00, Wednesday 9 October 2024
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
EH8 9AG Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Plans for Future Operas

Transit

14:00, Sunday 20 October 2024
Leuven STUK (external link)
Naamsestraat 96
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium

Waves Crash on Old Street

Jerwood Composer+ Showcase

19:00, Saturday 16 November 2024
LSO St Luke’s (external link)
161 Old Street
EC1V 9NG London
United Kingdom

Composer Rufus Isabel Elliot and artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp from KNOCKvologan Studies bring the Isle of Mull’s wild Atlantic rainforest of Tireragan to LSO St Luke’s.

With David Alberman, violin, and Louise McMonagle, cello.

Musikk på ytterpunktene

nyMusikk

20:30, Saturday 18 January 2025
Cafeteatret (external link)
Hollendergata 8
Oslo
Norway

The uncompromising piano sonatas and sonata of Galina Ustvolskaya meet Robert Ashley’s cult classic and noise precursor for vocals and feedback, as well as a new work by composer and improviser Andrea Giordano. Performed by Mark Knoop, Mira Benjamin and Andrea Giordano.

Getting to know you

Plus-Minus Ensemble

20:30, Wednesday 29 January 2025
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) share a night at Café Oto with Neil Luck (external link), Adam de la Cour (external link), Cameron Dodds, Mimi Doulton, and Tim Cape

Plans for Future Operas

Klangpol-Konzertreihe

19:00, Sunday 9 February 2025
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater (external link)
Theaterwall 19
26122 Oldenburg
Germany

Variations

Plus-Minus Ensemble

20:30, Tuesday 18 February 2025
Cafe OTO (external link)
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston
E8 3DL London
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus (external link) presents three works that each do arranging in a different way. Like the many chamber versions of orchestral works made for Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna from 1918, we include Mark Knoop’s intimate arrangement of Laurence Crane’s orchestral piece Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section.

At the heart of Traveller Song is a transcription of a recording of a Sicilian cart driver (carrettiere) that appears on the album “Folklore Musicale Italiano, Volume 2”, transformed by Cassandra Miller (external link) into a quasi-shamanistic ritual.

The show concludes with the premiere of American composer Aaron Wyanski’s arrangement of Arnold Schoenberg’s Variations for Orchestra, the latest instalment in his Schoenberg in Hi-Fi series.

mirror-shift

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:00, Friday 21 February 2025
West Court
Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building
Laurinson Place EH3 9DF Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Musical Intelligence

Plus-Minus Ensemble

MUSICON

16:30, Saturday 1 March 2025
Durham University (external link)
Durham
United Kingdom

Plus-Minus Ensemble presents two pieces: the young composer Zhouer Zhou imagines a fantastical scenario, while Michael Finnissy (external link)’s polemical new work questions the limits of AI.

The Journey

Plus-Minus Ensemble

MUSICON

11:30, Sunday 2 March 2025
Durham University (external link)
Durham
United Kingdom

Two works evoking the journey: Crane’s moving panels and bumpy textures are followed by Miller’s overwriting of an Italian cartier's folksong.

Music in Motion

Apartment House

19:30, Monday 28 April 2025
Wigmore Hall (external link)
36 Wigmore Street
W1U 2BP London
United Kingdom

Apartment House (external link) is synonymous with experimental and contemporary music. The shapeshifting, eternally adventurous London-based ensemble celebrates 30 years of thrilling, thought-provoking performances with a programme that revels in the diverse delights of musical minimalism.