Concerts

Future and past performances and events

Laurence Crane 50th Birthday Portrait Concert

8:00pm Monday 21 February 2011
Kings Place
90 York Way
London

Plus Minus celebrates the 50th birthday of Laurence Crane with a concert of recent works featuring guest performer, soprano Juliet Fraser. This event will be recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

Laurence Crane • Come back to the old specimen cabinet John Vigani, John Vigani part 3
Laurence Crane • Piano Piece no.23
Laurence Crane • Weirdi
Laurence Crane • Octet


Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2010

4:00pm Friday 26 November 2010
HCMF 2010
Huddersfield

A Plus Minus double-portrait concert featuring two of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music: Peter Ablinger and Trond Reinholdtsen. Expect white noise, power-point, conceptual music theatre and some famous voices presented in a way you might never have anticipated.

Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
Trond Reinholdtsen • Concert Music Piece
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano
Trond Reinholdtsen • 13 Music Theatre Pieces


Stockhausen/Armstrong

Monday 20 September 2010
Kings Place, London

Karlheinz Stockhausen • Mantra
Newton Armstrong • Study in tiled light [wp]


Spor Festival 2010

Ablinger/Reinholdtsen Double Portrait

Friday 7 May 2010
Granhøj Dans
Århus, Denmark

Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
Trond Reinholdtsen • Concert Music Piece
Peter Ablinger • 1-127
Trond Reinholdtsen • 13 Music Theatre Pieces

Spor Festival 2010
Nick Rutter

Xenakis/Saunders/Harrison

Monday 12 April 2010
Kings Place
90 York Way
London

Iannis Xenakis • Dikhthas
Rebecca Saunders • Vermilion
Iannis Xenakis • Evryali
Bryn Harrison • Repetitions in Extended Time

Xenakis/Saunders/Harrison
Hugo Romano Guimarães

Durham University lunchtime concert

1:10pm Thursday 11 March 2010
Durham University

Mariam Rezaei • P.M. [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano
Laurence Crane • Riis
Iannis Xenakis • Evryali
Damien Ricketson • Same Steps


Reinholdtsen/Beckett at the ICA

Wednesday 18 November 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London

Plus-Minus and Kämmer Klang co-present an event featuring composer Trond Reinholdtsen and visual artist James Beckett, in a night featuring motorcross trophies, travel sounds, rabbits, power point presentations and microtonal music.

James Beckett • Trophies

19:30, Theatre

Kämmer Klang / Plus Minus perform:

Iannis Xenakis • Charisma
Trond Reinholdtsen • Concert Music Piece
Alex Hills • Some states can be resolved rhythmically
Matthew Shlomowitz • Fast Medium Swing

James Beckett • THE FRÈDERYCK NÙYEGEN SEASIDE MEMORIAL BAND

20:45, Theatre

Kämmer Klang / Plus Minus perform:

Giancinto Scelsi • Duo
Larry Polansky • Ensembles Of Note
Trond Reinholdtsen • 13 Music Theatre Pieces

James Beckett • Rabbit to Score


Talk Show at the ICA

Tuesday 26 to Sunday 31 May 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London

As part of the ICA’s Talk Show season, Plus-Minus will spend a week in residence. The ensemble will rehearse in the public galleries, presenting a short concert at the end of each day. The week will culminate in a full-length concert on Sunday 31 May. Repertoire will include:

György Ligeti • Atmosphères (arranged)
Tim Parkinson • Quartet
James Saunders • divisions that could be autonomous but that comprise the whole
Matthew Shlomowitz • Letter Piece #5, Northern Cities
Joanna Bailie • On and Off 2
Tom Johnson • Trio
Laurence Crane • Come back to the old specimen Cabinet John Vigani, John Vigani

Talk Show at the ICA
Benedict Johnson

Bath Spa

7:30pm Thursday 21 May 2009
Bath Spa University

Afternoon workshops with Bath Spa composition students will be followed by a public concert including student pieces.

Joanna Bailie • On and Off
Øyvind Torvund • Tune Park
Thomas Meadowcroft • A Vanity Press
Peter Ablinger • Voices and Piano


Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008

Sunday 23 November 2008
Huddersfield Festival
Huddersfield

Bryn Harrison • Open 2
Markus Trunk • Raw Rows
Bryn Harrison • Repetitions in Extended Time [wp]

With guests from asamisimasa: Anders Førisdal guitar, and Tanja Orning cello.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008
Hugo Romano Guimarães

BMIC Cutting Edge 2008

7:30pm Thursday 23 October 2008
BMIC Cutting Edge Series
The Warehouse, London

Peter Ablinger • Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu, Mao Tse-Tung from Voices and Piano
Matthew Shlomowitz • Fast Medium Swing [wp]
Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen
Peter Ablinger • Bertolt Brecht, Lech Walesa, Hanna Schygulla from Voices and Piano
Markus Trunk • Raw Rows
Peter Ablinger • Akkordeon und Rauschen
Laurence Crane • Octet [wp]

BMIC Cutting Edge 2008
Nick Rutter

Rational Rec at the Spitalfields Festival

A night at the music hall

Saturday 7 June 2008
Wilton’s Music Hall
Graces Alley, off Ensign Street
London E1 8JB

Trond Reinholdtsen • 13 Music Theatre Pieces
Michael Finnissy • dust
Diana Burrell • One-Man Band
Christopher Fox • Generic Composition No 3
Christopher Fox • Generic Composition No 7
Christopher Fox • Generic Composition No 8
Christopher Fox • You, Us, Me (Habañera)

This concert was recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.