Friday, March 21, 2025 from 7:30โ9:00 PM
F-PLUS is a violin/clarinet/percussion trio dedicated to working with today’s most exciting composers to build a repertoire for their unique instrumentation. They have performed across the country at Carnegie Hall, the Princeton Sound Kitchen series, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and at dozens of universities. Their program for Charlotte Street includes new works written expressly for them by four of the most decorated women writing music today: Grammy-Winner Jessie Montgomery, Irish composer Emma O’Halloran, New Zealander Gemma Peacocke, and Kansas City’s own world-renowned composer, Chen Yi.
Program for Charlotte Street Concert:
Gemma Peacocke (b. 1984): Flight Recorder (2023)
Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981): Trio (2021)
Commissioned by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning program
Emma O’Halloran (b. 1985): Dream On (2022)
Chen Yi (b. 1953): The West Lake in Summer (2024)
Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University
ABOUT F-PLUS
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. 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 National Gallery of Art, 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 commissioned and premiered over 50 new works since its inception, including pieces by Chen Yi, Donnacha Dennehy, Jessie Montgomery, 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 Koussevitzky Foundation, 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 universities across the country including 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, Duke University, and Stony Brook University, among others. F-PLUS is Kate Dreyfuss, violin, Greg Oakes, clarinets, and Josh Graham, percussion.
