7:00pm Tuesday 17 March 2026
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall
New Cross Road, London

Programme

Nina Guo and Joseph Houston

Jennifer Walshe • Twelve climate change songs
Charles Ives • The Housatonic at Stockbridge
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 • Autumn
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.

Tickets available here.

8:00pm Tuesday 2 December 2014
Kammer Klang
Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street
London

Alexander Schubert • Sensate Focus
Jennifer Walshe • Everything You Own Has Been Taken To A Depot Somewhere
Peter Ablinger • Instrumente und Rauschen

8:00pm Monday 18 March 2013
Kings Place, London

Plus Minus presents a concert of works tracing the ensemble’s unique range of interests - from alternative notions of music theatre through to the micro-investigation of sound and high-concept approaches to contemporary music making. Two UK premieres by Jennifer Walshe and Joanna Bailie will join new pieces especially written for the group by Newton Armstrong and James Weeks.

James Weeks • Looping Busker Music [wp]
Jennifer Walshe • same person/not the same person
Joanna Bailie • Artificial Environments Nos. 1 to 5
Newton Armstrong • Nature Pieces [wp]