The 4th Annual Chicago ICE Fest | Sept 12-18, 2006
Seven nights
Seven different cutting-edge new music programs
Seven different Chicago
bars
from the South Side to the North Side
Chicago’s hottest and most hyperactive new-music band will present seven different programs in seven different Windy City neighborhood bars, cafes and hangs, featuring different combinations of ICE’s dynamic and award winning 25-piece ensemble.
Chicago Tribune review of Katinka's
show…
Chicago Sun-Times preview…
TimeOut Chicago preview…
PROGRAM I
ICE–hot! Opening Night
David Bowlin, violin
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 @ 8 pm
HotHouse Center for Exhibition and Performance
31 E. Balbo Street, South Loop
$5 cover
Chicago ICE Fest opens with a performance at HotHouse featuring classic ICE repertoire by Cage, Xenakis, Andriessen, the young and up-and-coming Chinese composer Du Yun, and closes with Steve Reich's epic and emotionally charged string quartet "Different Trains."
Program:
John Cage: Credo in US for piano, 2 percussion and radio
Iannis Xenakis: Dmaathen, arr. ICE for amplified flute and percussion
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union, arr. ICE for sax, electric guitar,
bass, drums
Du Yun: Viscissitudes No. 1 for sax, electric guitar, bass, drums,
piano
Steve Reich: Different Trains for string quartet and tape
PROGRAM II
Ensemble Breekbaar
David Schotzko, percussion and Josh Rubin, clarinet
Wednesday, September 13 @ 10 pm
Elastic (formerly 3030)
2830 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Logan Square
$5 suggested donation
ICE members David Schotzko (percussion) and Joshua Rubin (clarinet) are Breekbaar, Dutch for "fragile." Dedicated to creating a repertory of works for the unusual combination of percussion and clarinet, Breekbaar will present a varied and exciting program of works by Franco Donatoni, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Philippe Manoury, Ignacio Baca Lobera, and several new works by young composers written just for the occasion.
PROGRAM III
Katinka Kleijn & Friends @ Velvet!
Thursday, September 14 @ 9pm
The Velvet Lounge
67 E. Cermak Road,
$10 cover
Curated by ICE/CSO cellist Katinka “Tinky” Kleijn at the Velvet Lounge’s new location, this program will feature ICE’s stellar solo cellist in a range of works by Alvin Lucier, Bruno Maderna, Dai Fujikura, Alexandra Hermentin and Frederic Rzewski as well as a world premiere by jazz saxophonist Greg Ward written for Kleijn and the band.
PROGRAM IV
Dan Lippel & Pals @ Pressure!
Dan Lippel, guitar
Friday, September 15 @ 9pm
Pressure Billiards and Café
6318 N. Clark Street, Edgewater
$5 cover
ICE’s ever-versatile and virtuosic guitarist Daniel Lippel will
curate this program of acoustic and electric contemporary guitar works,
including Mario Davidovsky, Julia
Wolfe, Elliot Carter, Toru Takemitsu, and Peter Gilbert.
PROGRAM V
40 Fingers @ the Mill!
Phyllis Chen, piano
Sunday, September 17 @ 2 pm
The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
4802 N. Broadway, Uptown
$5 cover
All eight hands of the ICE piano section join forces to present an afternoon of virtuosic 20th and 21st century piano literature of Ligeti, Kurtag, Messiaen, Schoenberg, Brunswick, Bartok, Tsai-Yun Huang, and a world premiere by Christopher Moore, a 2006 winner in ICE’s International Young Composers Project. ICE will also present two world premieres by Chicago composers Kirsten Broberg and David Smooke for piano eight-hands.
PROGRAM VI
Meeting of Minds @ The Brain
David Reminick, saxophone
Sunday, September 17 @ 10 pm
The Hungry Brain
2319 W. Belmont Avenue
$5 suggested donation
ICE improvisers Dave Reminick (saxophone) and Peter Evans (trumpet) are featured on the Emerging Improvisers ‘Transmission Series’ at the Hungry Brain. Peter Evans and Dave Reminick have been improvising in duo format since 2000. Their music has gone through many changes in the past six years; this concert finds Dave and Peter reunited for a special concert of improvised duos and solos.
Program VII
Pops @ Katerina’s
Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello and Claire Chase, flute
Monday, September 18 | 8:30 pm ALL NIGHT!
Katerina's
1920 Irving Park Road, Lincoln Square
$5 cover
ICE closes the festival with its annual version of a “pops” concert, featuring an open-ended evening of standard works outside of the ICE canon – ie, anything written before 1940. Four + hours of nonstop classical music, including Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, and ICE-commissioned arrangements of standard repertoire for unusual instrumental combinations, will make this evening an ICE experience not to miss! Guest artists from the Chicago Symphony, the Lyric Opera and others will make cameo appearances throughout the night.
Chicago Sun-Times preview article…
“It would be hard to overpraise the prodigiously talented, bracingly idealistic and indefatigable ICE.” – Michael Cameron, Chicago Tribune
“No. 2 in the Top Ten Classical Music Moments of the Year” – Allan Kozinn, New York Times
“versatile and exacting” – Jeremy Eichler, New York Times
“ICE performed wonders…” – Steve Smith, TimeOut New York Magazine
