Event overview
"Wanderlust" Plus-Minus Ensemble is joined by Berlin based duo Nina Guo (soprano) and Joseph Houston (piano) for two sets with very different flavours.
We are thrilled to welcome contemporary specialists Plus-Minus Ensemble to Goldsmiths. The first half features idiosyncratic songs from Ives, Walshe and Shlomowitz that traverse the silly, exuberant, poetic, dramatic, melodramatic and neurotic.
In the second half, in his 90th birthday year, we present Helmut Lachenmann’s thrilling and virtuosic trio which builds on the interplay between resonance and motion.
Programme:
Jennifer Walshe: Twelve climate change songs
Charles Ives: selected songs
Matthew Shlomowitz: Four Songs (lyrics by Harry Blake)
performed by Nina Guo (soprano) and Joseph Houston (piano)
Interval
Helmut Lachenmann: Allegro sostenuto, performed by Plus-Minus Ensemble: Vicky Wright (clarinets), Alice Purton (cello), Mark Knoop (piano)
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.
Free to Goldsmiths staff and students - please bring your ID card for entry
Photo credits: What About The Ash; Ricardo Eizirik; Camille Blake
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Mar 2026 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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