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The 5th Annual Chicago ICE Fest
Sept 22-30, 2007
Eleven programs. Eleven venues. One week!
Each concert focuses on a different sub-set of ICE’s
stellar instrumental makeup, and features a world premiere written specifically
for the occasion.
Guest composers are Philippe Manoury, Lee Hyla, and
a team of budding young Chicago and New York-based stars.
ICE is proud to announce the 5th annual Chicago ICEFest, the ensemble’s eleven-concert assault of the city of Chicago, featuring low-cost and FREE new music events in venues ranging from bars to community centers to concert halls.
ICEFest Concert I
Katinka Keijn and Kivie Cahn-Lipman, ICE cellos
Saturday, September 22, 9:00 pm
ICE CELLOS: KATINKA KLEIJN and KIVIE CAHN-LIPMAN
Velvet Lounge
67 East Cermak
Chicago, IL
$10 cover
An eclectic evening of cello madness, from jazz to classical, from academic to avant-garde, from one to eight cellists, featuring ICE cellists Katinka Kleijn, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, and cello friends. Program to include works by Du Yun, Kaija Saariaho, Krivchenia, Villa-Lobos, David Lang, and a premiere by the Chicago jazz sensation Greg Ward.
ICEFest Concert II
Sunday, September 23, 7:30 pm
PORTRAIT OF PHILIPPE MANOURY
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
Chicago Tribune Review
ICE keeps its cool as its marathon of
concerts heats up
Fresh from the ensemble’s world premiere performance in New York, ICE is proud to present the local premiere of Cruel Spirals (2007), a new ICE-commissioned work by the renowned French composer Philippe Manoury, commissioned by ICE with funds from the FACE Council, for soprano (the internationally acclaimed and locally beloved Tony Arnold) and ensemble, based on poetry by Jerome Rothenberg. Mr. Manoury will be present for the event, and will participate in a discussion about his work moderated by renowned composer Augusta Read Thomas.
David Reminick, saxophone; David Schotzko, percussion; David Bowlin, violin
ICEFest Concert III
Monday, September 24, 8:00 pm
MUSIC FOR ONE, TWO, AND THREE DAVES
Elastic Arts Foundation
2830 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL
$5 donation
What could a violinist, a saxophone player, and a percussionist possibly
have in common?
Only one thing: the same first name!
Come see ICE’s three Daves on stage together for the first time, live at Elastic Arts. They’ll be playing music by Luciano Berio, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Christian Wolff, also featuring a new work for multiple Daves by David Reminick (saxophone-Dave) himself!
ICEFest Concert IV
Tony Arnold, soprano and Jacob Greenberg, piano
Tuesday, September 25, 12:00 noon
TONY ARNOLD AND JACOB GREENBERG
The Concert Hall of the Music Center
Columbia College Chicago
1014 S Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
FREE ADMISSION
Soprano Tony Arnold and pianist Jacob Greenberg give a rare performance of Olivier Messiaen’s epic song cycle “Harawi.” Based on Peruvian folklore and Messaien’s own reading of the Tristan and Isolde legend, this work is a sparkling evocation of the mystery of love.
ICEFest Concert V
Bridget Kibbey, harp; Nuiko Wadden, harp
Joseph Brent, mandolin; Daniel Lippel, guitar
Tuesday, September 25, 7:30 pm
ICE PLUCKERS
St. Paul’s UCC Chapel
2335 N Orchard Street (entrance on Fullerton)
Chicago, IL
$10 suggested donation
ICE’s stellar crew of string pluckers (harpists Bridget Kibbey and Nuiko Wadden, guitarist Daniel Lippel, and mandolinist Joseph Brent) come together for a night of quartets, trios, duos, and solos.
The program will include music by Hans Werner Henze, Goffredo Petrassi, Steve Reich's "Piano Phase," and a new work for all four players by Chicago-based Costa Rican composer Pablo Chin. Come join us for a mother pluckin’ great show!
ICEFest Concert VI
Jennifer Curtis, violin
Wednesday, September 26, 8:00 pm
JEN CURTIS AND FRIENDS
Katarina’s
1920 W Irving Park
Chicago, IL
$5 cover
The sensational young violinist Jennifer Curtis (the most recent addition to ICE’s stellar string section) is featured in this program of folk-inspired solo and chamber works by 20th century masters, 21st century mavericks, and world premieres of her own compositions.
Music by Zoltan Kodaly, Paul Desenne, Georges Enescu, Jose Pablo Moncayo, and Jen Curtis herself.
ICEFest Concert VII
Clarinetists Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin
Thursday, September 27, 8:00 pm
LOW-MATIC ALL STARS
Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee, 2nd floor
Chicago, IL
$10 suggested donation
The Low-matic All Stars descend to Heaven Gallery for a program featuring new music for bass clarinets! ICE clarinetists Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin present strictly bass premieres of works by Felipe Lara, Nathan Davis, Hiram Navarrete, and other rarely heard bassy gems from Ignacio Baca Lobera and John Zorn.
ICEFest Concert VIII
Moving Theater
Friday, September 28, 8:00 pm
X-L-S: ICE AND MOVING THEATER
Renaissance Society
5811 Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL
FREE ADMISSION
X-L-S is a collective response to the work of three modern geniuses of music-Iannis Xenakis, Gyorgy Ligeti and Kaija Saariaho. Members of the New York and Paris-based Moving Theater perform collaboratively with ICE to embody the creative pulse of the three composers.
Edging away from a neo-classical relationship of dance to music, directors Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly lead a multi-disciplinary ensemble through a "staged concert," putting this music on its feet and on the move.
Featured is the US PREMIERE of Saariaho's "Vent Nocturne" for viola and electronics.
ICEFest Concert IX
Phyllis Chen, toy pianos and electronics
Saturday, September 29, 2:00 pm
THE UNCAGED TOY PIANO ROADSHOW
Casa Sandia
1359 W 16th St.
Chicago, IL
FREE ADMISSION
Phyllis Chen, toy pianos, electronics
Rob Dietz, electronics, video artist
A playful synaesthetic program for toy pianos, laptops, video, and electronics featuring works by Pertout, Wolfe, Morris, Chen, and others. Also on the bill is a world premiere by Joe Molinaro entitled Broken Vessels (2007).
ICEFest Concert X
Eric Lamb and Claire Chase, phleughts
Saturday, September 29, 8:00 pm
ICE PHLEUGHTS
Thomas Robertello Gallery
939 W Randolph St.
Chicago, IL
FREE ADMISSION
ICE’s kinetic flute section, Claire Chase and Eric Lamb, present a program of virtuoso Chicago premieres for the entire family of flutes (flutes, alto flutes, bass flutes) by Huang Ruo (China), Marcelo Toledo (Argentina), Bruno Maderna (Italy), Ignacio Baca Lobera (Mexico), and a world premiere by the Chicago-based Dutch composer, Sebastian Huydts – in this intimate West Loop gallery.
ICEFest Concert XI
Lee Hyla
Sunday, September 30, 2:00 pm
LEE HYLA @ THE MILL
The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
4802 N Broadway
$5 cover
ICE closes the festival this year with a portrait concert of Lee Hyla, Northwestern University’s newly appointed Wyatt Chair in Music Composition. To welcome Hyla to Chicago’s vibrant musical scene, ICE will present a program of virtuoso solo and chamber works from the last ten years, including various Chicago premieres.
Look for Professor Hyla at the bar in the back…
“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
