# Plus-minus ensemble

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**Plus Minus** is a music group that formed in 2003 specializing in [contemporary classical music](/source/Contemporary_classical_music).

Plus Minus's programming features a mixture of avant-garde and experimental traditions, focusing particularly on open-instrumentation pieces such as [Stockhausen](/source/Stockhausen)'s *[Plus Minus](/source/Plus-Minus_(Stockhausen))*, [Andriessen](/source/Louis_Andriessen)'s *[Workers Union](/source/Workers_Union_(Andriessen))* and [Cardew](/source/Cornelius_Cardew)'s *Treatise*. They have done profile concerts of [Peter Ablinger](/source/Peter_Ablinger), [Michael Finnissy](/source/Michael_Finnissy), [Christopher Fox](/source/Christopher_Fox_(composer)), [Bryn Harrison](/source/Bryn_Harrison) and [Phill Niblock](/source/Phill_Niblock), and have premiered works by [Laurence Crane](/source/Laurence_Crane), David Helbich, [Damien Ricketson](/source/Damien_Ricketson), [Oyvind Torvund](/source/Oyvind_Torvund), Erik Ulman, [James Saunders](/source/James_Saunders_(composer)), and Stefan Van Eyken.

## Members

There are eight members in the ensemble:

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

## References

- [BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dw252)
- [Cutting Edge Series](http://www.bmic.co.uk/concerts/CE2008/concertdetail.asp?concertid=1)

## External links

- [Plus Minus website](http://www.plusminusensemble.com)

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