SHOWBIZ

Commission from Plus-Minus Ensemble for the AI Arts Festival in Winchester, run by the University of Southampton.

SHOWBIZ is a new composition for the ensemble.

All compositions scored for voice, clarinet in Bb, cello, and keyboards.

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. In recent years Plus-Minus has performed at performed at Whelan’s (Dublin), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), MINU festival (Copenhagen), Archipel (Geneva), and Klangspuren Schwaz in Austria, and in London Cafe Oto, BBC Studios, music we’d like to hear, City University Concerts, ICA and London Contemporary Music Festival. From 2019 to 2025, Plus-Minus was Ensemble in Residence at the Reid School of Music (University of Edinburgh), leading projects with students and giving three concerts each year. Over the past decade Plus-Minus has also enjoyed delivering annual projects at both Bath Spa University and Guildhall School of Music. Plus-Minus has also given workshops and concerts at Stanford University, Durham University, Huddersfield University, University of Southampton and City, University of London.

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