Plus-minus ensemble

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Plus Minus is a music group that formed in 2003 specializing in contemporary classical music.

Plus Minus's programming features a mixture of avant-garde and experimental traditions, focussing particularly on open-instrumentation pieces such as Stockhausen's Plus Minus, Andriessen's Worker's Union and Cardew's Treatise. They have done profile concerts of Peter Ablinger, Michael Finnissy, Christopher Fox, Bryn Harrison and Phill Niblock, and have premiered works by Laurence Crane, David Helbich, Damien Ricketson, Oyvind Torvund, Erik Ulman, James Saunders, and Stefan Van Eyken.

Members

There are eight members in the ensemble:

Mark Knoop – conductor/piano/accordion
Vicky Wright – clarinet(s)
Roderick Chadwick – piano
Tom Pauwels – (electric) guitar
Marcus Barcham-Stevens – violin
Alex Waterman – cello
Joanna Bailie & Matthew Shlomowitz – auxiliary instruments.

References

External links

Plus Minus website