Wanderlust
7:00pm Tuesday 17 March 2026
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall
New Cross Road, London
Programme
Nina Guo and Joseph Houston
Jennifer Walshe • selection from Twelve climate change songs
Matthew Shlomowitz • sad music, happy lyric
Charles Ives • Down East
Matthew Shlomowitz • Babe, I’m spiralling
Matthew Shlomowitz • Erotik
Charles Ives • Son of a gambolier
Charles Ives • The Housatonic at Stockbridge
Matthew Shlomowitz • Long grass
Matthew Shlomowitz • Wanderlust
Plus-Minus Ensemble
Vicky Wright (clarinets), Alice Purton (cello), Mark Knoop (piano)
Helmut Lachenmann • Allegro sostenuto (1987/88)
About
Nina Guo is a high soprano based in Berlin. She is interested in the sounds and music of recent and ongoing times. Her performance practice encompasses the interpretation of notated music, improvisation, and collaboration on interdisciplinary projects. Radio and humor play a significant role in her work. She performs in Duo Unit with bassist Edward Kass and recently appeared in Jennifer Walshe’s opera Mars for Irish National Opera.
Joseph Houston is a British pianist based in Berlin, whose performance practice encompasses contemporary and experimental music, late 19th- and early 20th-century piano repertoire, music for alternative keyboard instruments, and his own compositions. He is a member of the Saviet/Houston Duo and has performed with Octandre Ensemble, Phonetic Orchestra, Harmonic Space Orchestra, Boulez Ensemble, Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion and Ensemble KNM Berlin.
Plus Minus is a UK-based group dedicated to commissioning new works alongside modern and landmark repertoire. Formed in 2003, the group focuses on performative, electroacoustic, and conceptual pieces, Plus-Minus explores experimental works, including Stockhausen’s 1963 classic, after which the ensemble is named. The ensemble was resident at University of Edinburgh from 2019 to 2025 and in recent years has performed at Whelan’s (Dublin), BBC studios, Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), MINU festival (Copenhagen) and Klangspuren Schwaz in Austria.
EXMO: Sostenuto
7:00pm Tuesday 27 January 2026
St John’s College, Oxford
Bernhard Lang • Game 542
Joanna Bailie • Roll Call
Liza Lim • Inguz
Helmut Lachenmann • Allegro sostenuto
Reid School of Music 1
7:00pm Thursday 11 November 2021
Reid Concert Hall
Edinburgh
Kristine Tjøgersen • We should get to know each other
Marta Sniady • Your only limit is you
James Saunders • everybody do this †
Helmut Lachenmann • Allegro sostenuto
† performed by Plus Minus together with students from the Reid School of Music.
