Performances between 2024 and 2025

Arbor

Apartment House

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

Plans for Future Operas

New and Newest Music Festival

20:00, Friday 23 February 2024
Arter (external link)
Irmak Caddesi No: 13 Dolapdere
Beyoğlu 34435 Istanbul
Turkey

Part of his ongoing series of Plans for Future… works, this staged piece for voice and keyboards is a collection of fragments of ideas, fantastical scenarios that pay no heed to the laws of physics and acoustics. Written for soprano Juliet Fraser (external link) and pianist Mark Knoop, the performance unfolds in front of an abundance of projected drawings, handmade visualisations of Øyvind’s fantasy opera worlds.

Games and Songs

Plus-Minus Ensemble

22:30, Saturday 24 February 2024
Centro Cultural de Belém (external link)
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon
Portugal

Plus Minus Ensemble presents a diverse programme, inviting the listener into contact with the material nature of sound. Bernhard Lang (external link)’s Game 542 creates a dynamic and reactive environment for the performers who negotiate an overlapping stack of interacting loops. Liza Lim (external link)’s duo is titled after the Viking Rune symbolizing fertility and imagines a ritualistic creation of sound itself.

Davíð Brynjar Franzson’s time-stretching work slows down the body and mind to draw one into the grain of sound. The instruments meld with each other, fusing into a single pulsating entity, and creating a hypnotic experience. The witty and playful 8 Songs by composer/performer Francesca Fargion are joyfully observant of everyday scenarios. The concert ends with Laurence Crane’s tribute to Danish road cyclist Bjarne Riis, as slow changing organ chords trigger gentle responses from clarinet and cello.

Plans for Future Operas

Aspekte Salzburg

21:00, Wednesday 6 March 2024
Szene Salzburg (external link)
Anton-Neumayr-Platz 11
Salzburg
Austria

Part of his ongoing series of Plans for Future… works, this staged piece for voice and keyboards is a collection of fragments of ideas, fantastical scenarios that pay no heed to the laws of physics and acoustics. Written for soprano Juliet Fraser (external link) and pianist Mark Knoop, the performance unfolds in front of an abundance of projected drawings, handmade visualisations of Øyvind’s fantasy opera worlds.

Musical Intelligence

Plus-Minus Ensemble

19:00, Wednesday 13 March 2024
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh College of Art
EH8 9AG Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Plus Minus Ensemble has commissioned Michael Finnissy (external link) and Bryn Harrison (external link) with the generous support of the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

Musical Intelligence

Plus-Minus Ensemble

BBC Radio 3

19:30, Friday 15 March 2024
BBC Maida Vale Studios (external link)
Delaware Road
W9 2LG London
United Kingdom

Plus Minus Ensemble has commissioned Michael Finnissy (external link) and Bryn Harrison (external link) with the generous support of the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

Strange Autumn

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Archipel Festival

18:30, Saturday 13 April 2024
La Maison Cummunale de Plainpalais
Rue de Carouge 52
1205 Geneva
Switzerland

Mark Knoop and Serge Vuille present Takasugi (external link)’s mesmerising reflection alongside fixed-media works by the composer.

Plans for Future Operas

Only Connect Oslo

21:00, Friday 26 April 2024
Nasjonal Jazzscene (external link)
Karl Johans gt. 35
0162 Oslo
Norway

Flavours of France I

Yorkshire Wolds Music Festival

20:00, Saturday 25 May 2024
St Andrew’s Church
Bainton
YO25 9NL
United Kingdom

Flavours of France II

Yorkshire Wolds Music Festival

22:00, Saturday 25 May 2024
St Andrew’s Church
Bainton
YO25 9NL
United Kingdom

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.