Performances between 2025 and 2026

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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.