Schedule of Events 2008-2009
Monday, Sept 8, 7:30 pm
Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum
Iannis Xenakis's Oresteia
Excerpts are performed prior to the New York premiere at the Miller
Theatre. George Steel discusses this production with
director/choreographer Luca Veggetti, the late composer's wife, author
and screenwriter Francoise Xenakis, former Xenakis collaborator Sharon
Kanach, and ICE percussionist David Schotzko.
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
Saturday, September 13, 8:00pm
Tuesday, September 16, 8:00pm
Wednesday, September 17, 8:00pm
IANNIS XENAKIS: Oresteïa
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
116th & Broadway
New York, NY
$35
The New York Times, September 14, 2008
An Opera of an Epic, Composed
in Stages. Review of Oresteia
Backstage, September 15, 2008
Oresteia
The New Yorker, September 15, 2008:
Goings
On About Town
ICE with:
Wilbur Pauley, baritone
Dancers: Olivia Ancona, Kristi Capps, Frances Chiaverini,
Matthew Branham,
R. Colby Damon, and Stephan Laks
Oresteïa Chorus
Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Steven Osgood, conductor
Luca Veggetti, director and choreographer
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001): Oresteïa (1965-66; rev. 69, 87, 89) for baritone soloist, percussion soloist, dancers, mixed choir, children’s choir, and ensemble (US Premiere of final version)
ICE is honored to be the ensemble for this US Premiere of the final version of Xenakis’ fascinating, unique, seminal and rarely-performed work. The production, which incorporates theater, dance, music and video projections, is directed and choreographed by Luca Veggetti and produced by Miller Theatre.
Sunday, September 14, 2008, 8pm and 10pm
ICE CD Release Party!
The Stone NYC
107 E 2nd St
New York, NY 10009
$10 cover; $15 includes CD
ICE launches its second full length CD in collaboration with the indie label New Focus Recordings, taking over The Stone, John Zorn's Lower East Side experimental music haven, for a two-set, evening-length performance. Presenting a no-holds-barred collection of works by Lindberg, Davidovsky, Saariaho, Fujikura, and Du Yun, the ensemble highlights music by composers on the new CD. This exciting recording was programmed, engineered and edited by members of ICE, and features ICE's sensational guitarist Daniel Lippel.
Come for one set or come for both (we'll play different programs), and get $5 off the cover charge if you buy your CD at the door!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 7:30pm
ICETANK! CONCERT I
Co-Composition
New collaborative works for guitar
Daniel Lippel, guitars
The Tank NYC
NEW LOCATION! 87 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10013
$5
Who says concert music needs to be written alone, in a room, tearing your hair out? Why not tear your friend's hair out? In this show, Daniel Lippel plays music for classical and electric guitars, tuned normally and strangely, and written in various degrees of collaboration with composers Peter Gilbert, Orianna Webb, and Ryan Streber. Perhaps too many cooks won't totally spoil the broth.
This event is funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, part of the NYC Dept.of Cultural Affairs.
Friday, October 3 2008, 8pm
Saturday, October 4 2008, 8pm
ICE at EMPAC
EMPAC Performing Arts Center
EMPAC @ Rensselaer
110 8th street
Winslow Building
Troy, NY 12180
Gregory Vajda, guest conductor
György Kurtág (b. 1926): Grabstein Für Stephan (1989): for solo guitar and ensemble
ICE is proud to be a part of the Grand Opening ceremonies of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer in Troy, New York. The building seamlessly fuses art and technology, utility and style to create a unique and ideal space for performance, creativity, and collaboration throughout the various arts. ICE will be joined by conductor Gregory Vajda in György Kurtág’s hauntingly beautiful quasi-requiem Grabstein Für Stephan. Other performers on the program include George Steel's Vox Ensemble and the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Saturday, October 4 2008, 7:30 pm
Southern Exposure New Music Series
School of Music
813 Assembly St.
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
music.sc.edu/ea/comp/southernexposure
ICE makes its first appearance at the Southern Exposure New Music Series, presenting a collection of classic ICE repertoire. Beginning with old standbys such as Cage's In Credo US and Crumb's exquisite Vox Balaenae, the program culminates with ICE's internationally-acclaimed production of Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, directed by Lydia Steier and featuring ICE tenor Peter Tantsits. Tantsits, who recently made his La Scala debut, is a rising star, and has floored audiences across the world with his spellbinding rendering of the role of the Mad King.
John Cage (1912-1992): Credo in US (1942)
George Crumb (b. 1929): Vox Balaenae (1971)
Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934): Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969), directed
by Lydia Steier
October 16, 2008, 7 pm
PORTRAIT OF PHILIPPE HUREL
Isabella Sewart Gardner Museum
280 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
Portrait of Philippe Hurel (b.1955)
Christian Knapp, guest conductor
ICE brings last season's popular portrait of Philippe Hurel to Boston. This is your second chance to hear the unique and rhythmically playful music of this fascinating French composer! Led by conductor Christian Knapp, the ensemble's execution of the music's complex, dizzying and largely unison rhythms is as thrilling as watching a high-wire act.
Loops III (2002-03) for two flutes
…á mesure (1996) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone
and piano
Tombeau in Memoriam Gérard Grisey (1999) for piano and percussion
Figures Libres (2000-2001) for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola,
cello, percussion and piano
Friday, October 24, 2008, 7:30pm
ICE @ MOCP
Concert I: PETER EVANS: ON THE ROAD
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Peter Evans: On the Road
Peter Evans, trumpet and piccolo trumpet
With Dave Reminick, saxophones
Nathan Davis, live electronics
ICE kicks off a new ICE-produced recital series at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago with a solo improvisation show presented in conjunction with the museum’s “On the Road” Exhibition. Peter Evans, ICE’s brilliant trumpet player who is taking the free improvisation world by storm, will be joined by ICE saxophonist Dave Reminick, as well as ICE composer and percussionist Nathan Davis on live electronics. Evans is renowned for his power-house performances and frenetic, virtuosic playing style. Be prepared to hear the trumpet as you’ve never heard it before!
The Chicago Sun-Times
New-music groups making
a scene
around Chicago
The Chicago Reader
Loving and hating Peter Evans
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7:30 pm
ICETANK! Concert II
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
The Tank NYC
87 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10013
$5
ICE is proud to present the dynamic bassoonist Rebekah Heller, a new member of ICE, who will be featured in this ICETank program that explores new pieces for bassoon with and without electronics. Among other surprises, Rebekah will give the world premiere of a new work for bassoon and electronic sounds by the sensational young Mexican composer Edgar Guzmán, commissioned by ICE for this special performance.
The Villager
Gone with the woodwind
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 7:30pm
Northwestern University Residency
ICE plays music by NU Faculty Composers
Northwestern University
School of Music
711 Elgin Road
Evanston, IL 60208-1200
Lee Hyla (b. 1952): Amnesia Variance (1989) for clarinet, violin,
viola, cello, piano, and hammered dulcimer
Jason Eckardt (b. 1971): 16 (2003) for amplified flute, violin, viola,
and cello
Jay Alan Yim (b. 1958): Escape Velocity 1.1sa for soprano or alto saxophone
Hans Thomalla (b. 1975): momentsmusicaux (2003-2004) for flute, bass
clarinet, viola, cello and piano
ICE commences its new residency at Northwestern University with an eclectic program featuring the work of past and present NU Faculty Composers. ICE will present chamber music by NU's star faculty members Lee Hyla, Jay Alan Yim, and Hans Thomalia, as well as Jason Eckardt’s captivating work for solo flute and string trio, 16. Featuring the ensemble’s fearless flutist, Claire Chase, 16 has become a new classic in ICE’s repertoire, having been recorded for a future release on New Focus Recordings.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Northwestern University Residency
ICE plays music by NU Student Composers
Northwestern University
School of Music
711 Elgin Road
Evanston, IL 60208-1200
As part of the ensemble's residency at Northwestern University, ICE will workshop and record the work of four NU graduate student composers selected by the faculty via a call-for-scores.
Sunday, November 23, 2008, 8:30 pm
CD RELEASE PARTY @ UNCOMMON GROUND
Uncommon Ground
1401 W. Devon Avenue
Chicago, IL
Come celebrate the release of our new album with our Windy City friends! Uncommon Ground offers an experience unique enough to match that of the ensemble: it is a restaurant, a cocktail bar, a music venue, and an art gallery. ICE will perform selections from the group's new release on New Focus Recordings, featuring ICE guitarist Dan Lippel. Great food, drink specials, CD discounts, and more.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 7:30pm
ICETANK! CONCERT III
Eric Lamb, flute
The Tank
87 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10013
ICE's ineffable flutist Eric Lamb presents a program of music from Finland, France and Austria. Eric will joined by Lady Chase for Philippe Hurel's Loops III for two flutes, a tour de force duo in which the two flutes execute playful but dauntingly complex in rhythms in absolute unison.
Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952): Laconisme de l'aile (1982) for flute and electronics
Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952): Noa Noa (1992) for flute and electronics
Philippe Hurel (b. 1955): Loops III (2002-3) for two flutes (with Claire
Chase, flute)
Philippe Manoury (b. 1952): Jupiter (1987; rev. 1992) for flute and electronics
Friday, December 5, 2008, 8:00pm
ICE @ MILLER THEATRE
PORTRAIT OF MARC-ANDRE DALBAVIE
Miller
Theatre at Columbia University
Composer Portraits Series
116th & Broadway
New York, NY
The New York Times, December 7, 2008
Youthful Anger to Ruminative Fantasies
MusicWeb International, December 5, 2008
Composer Portraits at Miller Theatre: Marc-André Dalbavie
ICE with:
Cliff Colnot, guest conductor
Dmitri Masslenikov, cello soloist
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola soloist
Portrait of Marc-Andre Dalbavie (b.1961)
Marc-André Dalbavie is a rising star of the new French generation. He has a gift for color intensified from his study of Spectralism. His music is voluptuous and yet animated with rhythmic vitality. This Portrait juxtaposes Dalbavie's early masterpiece, Diadèmes, which catapulted him to international attention, with a world premiere Miller Theatre commission.
Palimpsest (2002) for flute, clarinet violin, viola, cello and piano
Diademes (1986) for solo viola and large ensemble
Hsin-Yun Huang, soloist
Onstage discussion with Marc-André Dalbavie
Cello Concerto (2008) for solo cello and large ensemble (WORLD PREMIERE,
Miller Theatre commission)
Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 7:30pm
ICE @ MOCP
Concert II: The Transparent City
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Eric Lamb and Claire Chase, flutes
The second concert of ICE’s new series at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago spotlights the tight-knit virtuosity of the ensemble’s ineffable flute section: Claire Chase and Eric Lamb. Focusing on music rarely heard in the United States, the performers offer a multi-cultural and multi-generational program. Featuring music from Japan, Finland, France and Poland, the program will include music by Toru Takemitsu and Kaija Saariaho, as well as the Chicago premieres of Philippe Hurel’ s Loops II and Dominik Karski’s Glimmer. The staggering beauty and liquid structures of these pieces will create an aural equivalent to the gallery’s exhibition, Michael Wolf's The Transparent City.
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996): Masque (1959-60) for two flutes
Philippe Hurel (b. 1955): Loops II (2002-3) for two flutes (Chicago Premiere)
Dominik Karski (b. 1972): Glimmer (2002) for alto and bass flutes (Chicago
Premiere)
Sebastian Huydts: LambChase (2007) for two flutes
Thursday, January 29, 2009, 7:30 pm
ICETANK IV
Gareth Flowers, trumpet
The Tank NYC
The Tank @ The 45th Street Theater
354 W. 45th Street (btwn 8th & 9th)
Manhattan
$5 cover
The dynamic and versatile trumpet player Gareth Flowers, a member of ICE since 2003, offers this ICETank program featuring improvised music for trumpet and laptop.
Featuring music by Jonathan Harvey, Charles Whittenberg, Gareth Flowers and improvisations featuring ICE tubist Dan Peck.
February 8, 9, 10, 2009
Musica Nova Helsinki "New York is Now"
Tel. +358(0)9 6126 5100
ICE brings New York to Finland to present three programs at Musica Nova Helsinki's Festival, "New York is Now."
ICE will give the Finnish premiere of Jason Eckardt's chamber cycle, "Undersong," along with pieces by Du Yun, Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de Leon, Mario Davidovsky, David Lang, and Peter Evans.
ICE: Undersong
Sun
Feb 8, 19.00
Sibelius Academy, Concert Hall
Featuring Soprano Tony Arnold
Jason Eckardt: Undersong
A way (tracing)
16
Aperture
The Distance (This)
ICE: Nueva York
Mon Feb 9, 19.00
Sibelius Academy, Concert Hall
International Contemporary Ensemble
Soprano Tony Arnold
Magnus Lindberg: Linea d’Ombra
Mario Davidovsky: Cantione Sine Textu
Nathan Davis: The Bright and Hollow Sky
Ignacio Baca Lobera: Escritura Automática
Du Yun: Impeccable Quake
Elliott Carter: A Mirror on Which to Dwell
ICE-Factory
Tue Feb 10, 22.00
Korjaamo Culture Factory, Corner Hall
Downtown, electronics and improvisations in true NYC
spirit!
Also ICE composers Nathan Davis and Du Yun with
her 21-stringed zheng.
with guest star Juho Laitinen, cello
Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint
Nathan Davis: pneApnea
Du Yun: by... of Lethean
David Lang: Little Eye
Mario Diaz de León: Mansion
Peter Evans: Chet Baker
Friday, February 20, 7:30 pm
ICE @ MoCP: Concert III
The UnCaged Toy Piano Roadshow
Phyllis Chen, toy piano
Museum
of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Phyllis Chen, ICE's resident toy pianist and winner of the 2007 New Music/New Places Concert Artists Guild award, presents a program of new works selected through her annual UnCaged Toy Piano Call-for-Scores. Concluding the program will be the Chicago premiere of a new work for toy piano and electronics by ICE composer/percussionist Nathan Davis.
Tuesday, February 24th, 8pm
ICE at The Stone
The Stone
Corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., New York, 10003
Four of ICE's most creative performers team up downtown at John Zorn's intimate performance space. Chameleon-like trumpeter Peter Evans and percussionist/composer Nathan Davis expand their recent electro-acoustic collaboration to include ICE pianist, Cory Smythe and ICE tubist, Dan Peck.
Peter Evans, trumpet
Cory Smythe, piano
Nathan Davis, processing
Dan Peck, tuba
with Sam Pluta, electronics/processing
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 7:30 pm
ICETANK V
Tony Arnold, soprano
The Tank @ The 45th Street Theater
354 W. 45th Street (btwn 8th & 9th)
Manhattan
"Anything sung by Tony Arnold is worth hearing," raves John Von Rhein
of the Chicago Tribune. Arnold, who has given more than thirty
performances with ICE since its inception, will offer this rare solo
recital featuring works by Georges Aperghis, Jenece Gerber, Cathy
Berberian, and Jason Eckardt. She will be joined by ICE guitarist
Daniel Lippel, soprano Amanda DeBoer and, and mezzo-soprano Jenece
Gerber.
February 27-March 1, 2009
Residency @ Smith College
ICE will return to Smith College and Mount Holyoke College for a series of mini-recitals, master classes and two ICE concerts.
Friday, March 13, 2009, 8pm
ARLENE SIERRA PORTRAIT
Miller Theatre of Columbia University
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street)
Susan
Narucki, soprano
Jayce Ogren, guest conductor
Colmena (2008) (world premiere, Miller Theatre commission)
Cicada Shell (2006)
Ballistae (2000)
Surrounded Ground (2008)
Neruda Settings (2002-5)
Arlene Sierra (b. 1970) is an especially gifted composer. With an ear for color, her music is full of punch and grit. Drawing from many various sources, her works are influenced by Chinese battle tactics, the poetry of Pablo Neruda, birds, and stained glass windows.
Miller-favorite International Contemporary Ensemble sheds light on this young and intriguing composer in a program with a world premiere commission.
Monday, March 23, 2009, 7:30 pm
ICE @ Music Mondays
adventnyc.org/musicmondays.html
Advent Lutheran Church and Broadway United Church of Christ
504 Broadway at 93rd Street, New York
The Music Mondays chamber music series presents ICE in a program of rarely performed transcriptions of Bach works by György Kurtág, Daniel Lippel, Joseph Brent, and Sebastián Zubieta. The concert, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the beautiful, acoustically superb Advent Lutheran Church on the Upper West Side.
Eb Major Flute Sonata BWV 1031
(transcribed, Joseph Brent, mandolin and harp)
Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir, BWV 667
(transcribed György Kurtág for piano, four hands)
Suite for Cello, BWV 1010
(transcribed, Daniel Lippel for guitar)
Sonatina from "Gottes Zeit ist die Allerbeste Zeit" (Actus
Tragicus), BWV 106
(transcribed György Kurtág for piano, four hands)
Invention
(transcribed, Joseph Brent, two mandolins, harp, and cello)
O Lamm Gottes Unschuldig, BWV 656
(transcribed György Kurtág for piano, four hands)
Woferne Du Den Edlen Frieden, from Cantata BWV 41
(transcribed, Sebastián Zubieta for two flutes, two clarinets,
guitar,
cello, organ and tenor)
Featuring Peter Tantsits, tenor
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:30 pm
ICETank VI: WIRED
Claire Chase and Eric Lamb, flutes
The Tank @ The 45th Street Theater
354 W. 45th Street (btwn 8th & 9th)
Manhattan
The flute section of ICE - Claire Chase and Eric Lamb - are WIRED. The irrepressibly dynamic duo offers an eclectic program featuring the New York premieres of new works by Richard Barrett and Dominki Karski, as well as Philippe Hurel's relentlessly frenetic "Loops III," in which the two flutes execute dauntingly complex rhythms in perfect unison.
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7:30pm
ICE @ Le Poisson Rouge:
Eight Last Songs for the
King
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleeker St.
New York
Peter Maxwell Davies: "Eight Songs for a Mad King"
Featuring Peter Tantsits, tenor and Phyllis Chen, toy piano
Bruce Hodges review in MusicWeb International…
ICE brings its signature multimedia spectacle, Peter Maxwell Davies' "Eight Songs for a Mad King" back to New York for one final staging. This time, Alvin Lucier's "Bird and Person Dyning" haunts the incomparable tenor Peter Tantsits as he becomes King George III in this tour de force role. Director Lydia Steier uses video to plumb the King's psychological depths.
Monday, April 6, 2009, 8pm
Lowfirm: Attorneys at Low
Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin, bass clarinets
Uncommon Ground
1401 W. Devon Avenue
Chicago, IL
Bass clarinetists Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin are Attorneys at Low. They will present rarely heard bassy gems for this unusual duo. Featuring music by Cornelius Cardew, Elliott Carter, James Tenney, Steve Reich, Henri Pousseur and Felipe Lara.
Thursday, April 16, 2009, 7pm
XENAKIS PORTRAIT
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
Steve Schick, guest conductor/soloist
Check out our special Xenakis site →
ICE teams up with one of the leading musical minds of the 21st century, the percussionist and conductor Steven Schick, for this all-Xenakis Composer Portrait in Boston. Schick will open the program with his world-renowned performance of "Psappha," and the program will build in instrumental forces until ICE takes over the entire stage.
Psappha (1975)
Akanthos (1977)
Echange (1989)
Palimpsest (1979)
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 8:30 pm
Columbia University Composers
Leonard
Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY 10025-6990
A concert of recent chamber works by graduate composers working in the Music Department at Columbia University. An unusual subsection of ICE's instrumental lineup performs in this terrifically varied program, with virtuoso electronics, at Symphony Space's intimate hall.
Conducted by Matt Ward
Geof Holbrook: Unusual Signal for flute, bassoon,
trumpet, guitar, piano, and percussion with electronics
Bryan Jacobs: Or
Accept Permanence for flute, bassoon, trumpet, guitar, piano,
and percussion
Andile Khumalo:
…Trotz allem Nichts… for guitar, percussion, and piano with narrator
Eric
Wubbels: Shiverer for flute and piano
Michel Galante: Epilogue for flute,
bassoon, trumpet, guitar, piano, and two percussionists (Michel Galante,
conductor)
Mario Diaz de León: Mansion for two alto flutes, percussion,
and electronics
Damon Holzborn: Improvisation with tuba and live electronics
Sam Pluta:
American Tokyo Daydream II (Incognito) for two flutes and electronics
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 7:30 pm
ICETANK VII: La Lontananza nostalgica
David Bowlin, violin
The Tank @ The 45th Street Theater
354 W. 45th Street (btwn 8th & 9th)
Manhattan
The Soundmind Review
The Tank as cathedral: ICE’s
David Bowlin recites Sciarrino, Berio, and Nono
This unmissable ICETank features Luigi Nono's late masterpiece, La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, a poignant and sweeping work for violin and live sound, performed by ICE violinist David Bowlin. David will also play music by Luciano Berio and Salvatore Sciarrino, to whom Nono's piece is dedicated.
May 22 & 23, 2009, 8pm
Near-Death Experiences
and Other Live Acts
ICE returns to Performance Space 122!
Performance Space 122
150 First Ave. at E. 9th St.
NYC 10009
Phone: 212-477-5829
ICE returns to PS 122 to offer the world premiere of THIRTEEN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES, an art-pop song cycle by the sensational young New York composer-performer Corey Dargel.
Read more about the process at Corey's blog →
Dargel, who has been called a "baroquely unclassifiable artist" by The New Yorker, takes his inspiration for this genre-defying new chamber piece from a range of psychiatric delusions, with an emphasis on hypochondria.
ICE will round out the program with the world premieres of three stunning new short works by the young New York composer-performers Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de León and Stephen Lehman.
Corey Dargel: Thirteen Near-Death Experiences (2009)
For male vocalist (Dargel), flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet,
trombone,
percussion, piano/toy piano, violin, and cello/viola da gamba.
World
Premiere, commissioned through the MAP Fund, a program of Creative
Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller
Foundation.
Also featured:
New works by Nathan
Davis, Mario Diaz de León and Stephen Lehman, commissioned by ICE.
Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:30 pm
ICETANK VIII
Bridget Kibbey, harp
The Tank @ The 45th Street Theater
354 W. 45th Street (btwn 8th & 9th)
Manhattan
Founding ICE harpist Bridget Kibbey, winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International auditions, presents selections from her critically acclaimed new album, Love is Come Again. She will be joined by ICE flutist Claire Chase in duo works by Bach and Takemitsu.
Friday, May 29, 2009, 1pm
WFMT Live broadcast
Jacob Greenberg & Cory Smythe, piano duo show
98.7 WFMT
ICE pianists Jacob Greenberg and Cory Smythe will present a concert at Sherwood Conservatory, which will be broadcast live on The PianoForte Salon Series at Columbia College Chicago on 98.7 WFMT. The piano-focused series will host ICE’s exceptional pianists for a concert of music by some of the great 20th Century masters: Kurtág, Ligeti and Stravinsky. Listeners worldwide can hear this performance live at www.wfmt.com.
Saturday, May 30, 2009, 7:30pm
ICE @ MoCP: Concert IV
Bridget Kibbey, harp
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
The Chicago Reader, May 29, 2009
Taking the harp back from the
angels
ICE's sensational harpist Bridget Kibbey offers Chicago audiences a local version her solo ICETank program:
J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-Flat Major
Andrew McKenna Lee: New work (Chicago premiere)
David Bruce: New works (Chicago premiere)
Toru Takemitsu: Towards the Sea
Kati Agocs: Every Lover is a Warrior
Monday, June 1, 8-10pm
Live From WFMT
ICE returns to the WFMT studios in Chicago for a live broadcast featuring highlights from the 2008-2009 season.
Featuring performances from ICE's two CD releases this year, the "Complete Crumb Edition Volume 12" and Abandoned Time.
Thursday, June 4, 2009, 7:30pm
XENAKIS PORTRAIT
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago
200 E. Chicago Avenue
Steve Schick, conductor/soloist
Check out our special Xenakis site →
ICE kicks off a new partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago with a portrait of the seminal composer Iannis Xenakis. The ensemble, led by renowned percussionist, conductor and pedagogue Steven Schick, will present the Greek composer’s chamber music, ranging from solos to works for large ensemble.
Psappha (1975)
Akanthos (1977)
Palimpsest (1979)
Echange (1989)
O-Mega (1997)
June 10, 12, 14, 2009, 8 p.m.
ICE @ Greenwich Music Festival:
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Greenwich Music Festival
The Theater at St. Catherine of Sienna
Riverside, CT
Opera News:
Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Greenwich Music Festival
ICE will perform the music for Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis (The Emperor of Atlantis), an opera unlike any other, at the Greenwich Music Festival in Connecticut.
Ullmann and librettist Petr Kien composed the piece while living in the Nazi camp Terezín; performances were halted and the show banned when SS guards watched a rehearsal and realized the opera was a thinly veiled allegory for Hitler’s war against the Jews.
For more information and tickets, visit the Greenwich Music Festival website.
Thursday, June 25, 2009, 7:30 pm
ICETank IX: Breekbaar
The Tank @ The 45th Street Theater
354 W. 45th Street (btwn 8th & 9th)
Manhattan
Percussionist David Schotzko and clarinetist Joshua Rubin, founding members of ICE, are the duo Breekbaar. Though their moniker is Dutch for "Fragile," this combo will showcase jaw-dropping virtuosity for unwieldy instruments as they tear into new and classic pieces in the intimate setting of The Tank. The set will feature works Icelandic composer Atli Ingolfsson, French composer Phillippe Manoury, Mexico's Ignacio Baca-Lobera, New York native Nathan Davis, as well as Morton Feldman's seminal work Bass Clarinet and Percussion.
Monday, August 17, 2009, 7:30pm
John Adams and ICE!
Mostly Mozart Festival
Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater
More Info & Tickets
John Adams, conductor
With Michael Collins, clarinet
