Thursday, February 22, 2024 | 7pm | $25

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is excited to partner with the Winona Symphony Orchestra to bring you Water Music, evenings that marry two art forms and celebrate their shared inspiration.

F-PLUS presents an evening of works written expressly for their ensemble, tied together with the theme of moving in and out of a storm at sea. The four works on the program will create a sense of calm, tension, and release as they progress, culminating in the world premiere of Jonathan Schwanbe's "Autumn Seas," based on the artwork of Expressionist painter Emil Nolde. 

Program: 

Dream On (2022)                             Emma O'Halloran (b. 1985) 

This work was commissioned by generous funding from the Irish Arts Council 

Flight Recorder (2023)                   Gemma Peacocke (b. 1984) 

Projections by Ms. Peacocke

Fleet Feather (2020, rev. 2023)       Charles Peck (b. 1988) 

Charles Peck's work was the winner of F-PLUS' first Call For Scores Commission Project 

Autumn Seas (2023)                       Jonathan Schwabe (b. 1958) 

**World Premiere

F-PLUS is a violin, clarinet, and percussion trio committed to collaborating with today's most exciting composers to establish a diverse repertoire for their unique instrumentation. Praised for their "Emotionally raw performance" (Chicago Tribune), the trio was formed in 2016 at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival. The ensemble has performed all over the country, including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Ear Taxi Festival, the International Clarinet Association "ClarinetFest," and the New Music Gathering. F-PLUS has premiered over 35 new works since its inception, including commissioned works by Pulitzer-Prize finalist Chen Yi, Chicago Symphony Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, Grawemeyer-winner George Tsontakis, Emma O'Halloran, Gemma Peacocke, Perry Goldstein, Matthew Ricketts, and Charles Peck, among many others. The ensembled has been the recipient of commissioning grants and additional funding from the Fromm Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, New Music USA, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Irish Arts Council and the New Zealand Arts Council. F-PLUS is committed to working with the next generation of composers and performers, and has held residencies at Princeton University, the University of Delaware, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Washington University (St. Louis), University of Texas-Austin, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, UNC-Pembroke, UNC-Wilmington, and Grand Valley State, Central Michigan, Stony Brook, Duke, and Illinois State Universities. 

F-PLUS Trio

Kate Dreyfuss, Violin

Erin Cameron, Clarinet 

Josh Graham, Percussion