Plus-Minus Ensemble
- 7pm
About this event:
- Category:
- New Music
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
After three days of intensive rehearsals at Guildhall School, Plus-Minus Ensemble presents a concert of six new works by Masters composition students.
This year Plus-Minus is joined by special guest Andreas Borregaard on accordion.
Plus-Minus Ensemble is a UK based ensemble committed to commissioning new work and placing it alongside recent and landmark modern repertoire. Formed in 2003, Plus-Minus is distinguished by its interest in performative, electroacoustic and conceptual pieces, and experimental open works such as Stockhausen’s 1963 classic, from which the group takes its name. Plus-Minus is directed by Matthew Shlomowitz, Vicky Wright and Mark Knoop.
Plus-Minus has performed at Borealis Festival (Bergen), Sampler Series (Barcelona), Fundación BBVA Bilbao, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Klang festival (Copenhagen), MaerzMusik (Berlin), Spor Festival (Aarhus), Transit Festival (Leuven), Ultima Festival (Oslo) and Warsaw Autumn. In London, Plus-Minus has performed at Kammer Klang, Cafe Oto, BBC Radio 3 Open Ear, Cut and Splice, City University Concerts, ICA and London Contemporary Music Festival.
Since 2019, Plus-Minus has been Ensemble in Residence at the Reid School of Music (University of Edinburgh), leading projects with students and giving three concerts each year. Over the past decade Plus-Minus has also enjoyed delivering annual projects at both Bath Spa University and Guildhall School of Music. Plus-Minus has also given workshops and concerts at Stanford University, Durham University, Huddersfield University, University of Southampton and City, University of London.
Free, no tickets required
Running time: approx. 85 mins, no interval
Programme & Performers
Georgie West floorplan: a scale diagram of the arrangement of rooms in one storey of a building
Yotham Ben Yami Storm
Eluned Davies ‘he’s always watching’
Maja Ratkje I Cannot Heave My Heart Into My Mouth (Cordelia's Lament)
Antoine Veillerette Refrain
Jake Thorpe TV dinners
Tayla-Leigh Payne End, Beginning…
Mira Benjamin violin
Alice Purton cello
Andreas Borregaard accordion
Vicky Wright clarinet / bass clarinet
Joe Richards percussion
Mark Knoop conductor
Plus-Minus Ensemble is a London based ensemble committed to commissioning new work and placing it alongside recent and landmark modern repertoire. Formed in 2003 by Joanna Bailie and Matthew Shlomowitz, Plus-Minus is distinguished by its interest in performative, electroacoustic and conceptual pieces, and experimental open works such as Stockhausen’s 1963 classic, from which the group takes its name. Since 2019, Plus-Minus is directed by Matthew Shlomowitz, Vicky Wright and Mark Knoop.
Plus-Minus has performed in London at Kammer Klang, Cafe Oto, BBC Radio 3 Open Ear, Cut and Splice, City University Concerts, and at Borealis (Bergen), Sampler Sèries (Barcelona), Fundación BBVA Bilbao, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, MaerzMusik (Berlin), Spor Festival (Aarhus), Transit Festival (Leuven), Ultima Festival (Oslo) and Warsaw Autumn.
Plus-Minus has an ongoing relationship with Bath Spa University and the Guildhall School of Music and is Ensemble in Residence at the Reid School of Music (University of Edinburgh). The group has also given workshops and concerts at Stanford University, Durham University, Huddersfield University, University of Southampton and City, University of London.
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
