Schedule of Events 2007-2008
Tuesday, September 4 @ 6 pm
PHILIPPE MANOURY AT THE SPIEGELTENT
Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, Pier 17, NYC
Tickets: 212.279.4200 or www.ticketcentral.com
More info: www.spiegelworld.com
With:
Philippe
Manoury, composer
Tony Arnold, soprano
Jerome Rothenberg,
poet
ICE presents a concert celebrating the work
of one of
the most important French living composers.
Chicago Tribune, September 25, 2007
ICE keeps its cool as its marathon
of concerts heats up
Chicago Public Radio, September 23, 2007
Featured
on Hello Beautiful
Chicago Tribune, September 21, 2007
ICEFest 2007 premieres cool new
music
Chicago Reader, September 21, 2007
Post No Bills
NewCity Chicago, September 18, 2007
Soundcheck: ICE, ICE, Baby
September 22-30, 2007
The 5th Annual Chicago ICEFest!
Eleven programs. Eleven venues. One week!
View the Lineup →
Eric Lamb and Claire Chase, phleughts
ICETANK! KICKOFF
Take Two : ICE Pleughts
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 @ 7 pm NEW TIME
The Tank
279 Church Street
New York, NY
$5
ICE is proud to launch ICETANK!, a new series in one of our favorite venues – The Tank in Tribeca. Join us for eight intimate ICE programs this season on the first Wednesday of each month.
ICE's kinetic flute section, Claire Chase and Eric Lamb, present a variation on their Chicago ICEFest program with new works by New York composers Samuel Pluta, Steve Reich, Marcelo Toledo and Huang Ruo.
Christopher Moore, Mario Diaz de Leon, Jenny Olivia Johnson
Panayiotis Kokoras, Jason Eckardt
October 14, 2007 @ 8 pm
ICE with WSCMS
Tenri Cultural Institute
43 W 13th Street
New York, NY
$5/$10
The Washington Square Contemporary Music Society presents ICE in a concert of new works by composers still in their twenties and thirties: Jason Eckardt, Mario Diaz de Leon, Jenny Johnson, Christopher Moore and Panayiotis Kokoras.
Program:
Jason Eckardt (b. 1971): 16 for amplified flute and string
trio, NEW YORK PREMIERE
Mario Diaz de Leon* (b. 1978): New work TBA for ICE, WORLD PREMIERE
Panayiotis Kokoras* (b. 1977): New work TBA for ICE, WORLD PREMIERE
Christopher Treube Moore* (b. 1976): New work TBA for ICE, WORLD PREMIERE
Jenny Johnson (b. 1978): New work TBA for ICE, WORLD PREMIERE
*Winners of ICE’s 21st Century Young Composers Competition
Mario Diaz de Leon, Panayiotis Kokoras, Nathan Davis
October 17, 2007, 8 pm
ICE @ Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY
ICE presents a concert of new electro-acoustic music by young composers at Issue Project Room, a raw exhibition space for a wide range of experimental music.
Mario Diaz de Leon: New work (2007) for ICE with electronics
Panayiotis Kokoras: New work (2007) for ICE with electronics
Nathan Davis: PneApnea (2007) for alto flute and electronics
Nathan Davis: New work (2007) for clarinet and electronics
October 18, 2007
Doors Open at
7pm, Claire plays at 9pm
Ladyfest Chicago!
Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave
ICE flutist and founder Claire Chase will kick off Chicago's Ladyfest with a program of new electro-acoustic flute works by Nathan Davis, Elizabeth Hoffman and Mikael Karlsson.
Ladyfest is a four day music, film and visual arts festival with workshops and zine readings celebrating women in arts and activism.
ladyfestchicago.com or myspace.com/ladyfestchicago for specific times and locations.
Ladyfest is donating all proceeds to Chicago Women's Health Center and Rape Victim Advocates
October 20, 2007, 6-9 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED
ICE w/the Zhou Brothers
and Chicago Composers
Forum
Zhou Brothers Center
1029 W 35th St, 2nd Flr
Chicago, IL 60609
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ICE joins the legendary Zhou Brothers at their new state-of-the-art center in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago for a multimedia evening of live painting, live improvisation and collaboration with members of the Chicago Composers Forum.
Katinka Keijn and Kivie Cahn-Lipman, ICE cellos
ICETANK! CONCERT II
ICE Cellos!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 8 pm
The Tank
279 Church Street
New York, NY
$5
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 friends. Program to include works by Du Yun, Kaija Saariaho, Krivchenia, Villa-Lobos, David Lang, and Greg Ward.
Philippe Hurel
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 8 pm
ICE @ Miller Theatre
PORTRAIT OF PHILIPPE HUREL
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This portrait of Philippe Hurel is the first of ICE’s multiple appearances at Miller Theatre this season. Join us for an evening celebrating a wide range of Hurel’s work over the past fifteen years.
Christian Knapp, guest conductor
Tombeau in memoriam Gérard Grisey, for piano and percussion (1999)
...à mesure, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano (1996)
Figures libres, pour flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello,
percussion and piano
(2000-01)
Six miniatures en trompe l'œil for chamber orchestra (1990-91)
Bridget Kibbey, harp; Nuiko Wadden, harp
Joseph Brent, mandolin
ICETANK! CONCERT III
Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 8 pm
The Tank
279 Church Street
New York, NY
$5
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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 duos and trios. The program will include music by Hans Werner Henze, Goffredo Petrassi, Elliot Carter and Dmitri Nicolau. Come join us for another mother pluckin’ great show!
Moving Theate
December 7 and 14, 2007, 7 pm
ICE AND MOVING THEATER @ THE WHITNEY
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
Pay-what-you-can
Read the New York Times preview…
X-L: Music of Xenakis and Ligeti
Fun, irreverent, and deeply poetic, Moving Theater is a company of dancers, actors, musicians, and designers who create original work that breaks expectations and cuts edges. Teaming up with ICE, they create a pair of evenings featuring new dance and music, staged specifically for the Whitney's Lower Gallery.
Program:
Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint
Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds (1987-89)
Kaija Saariaho: Six Japanese Gardens
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Donnerstags - Abschied
December 8-16, 2007
ICE in-residence at Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
ICE will be residence at Columbia College Chicago, performing six concerts of new work by student composers, recording new film scores by students, and leading orchestration workshops.
Sunday, December 9, 2007, 3 pm
ICE-CUBE!
Merit Music School
Chicago, IL
ICE celebrates CUBE Ensemble’s 20th Anniversary with a performance of a new work written for ICE by CUBE Artistic Director and founder Patricia Morehead. Happy Birthday, CUBE! ICE salutes CUBE for their extraordinary two decades of service to the Chicago new music community.
Pablo Chin
Sunday, December 16, 2007, 3 pm
Music by Chicago-based Latino Composers
Concert Hall of the Music Center
Columbia College Chicago
1014 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
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ICE is proud to present a concert of works by emerging and established Chicago-based Latino composers:
Marcos Balter (Brazil): New work for ICE chamber orchestra, WORLD PREMIERE
Pablo Chin (Costa Rica): New work ICE (fl, cl, vln, vlc, pf, pc), WORLD
PREMIERE
Gustavo Leone (Argentina): studies for solo harp
Ricardo Lorenz (Venezuela): Jaromiluna for harp and violin, CHICAGO
PREMIERE
Juan Campoverde (Ecuador): New work
Peter Evans
ICETANK! CONCERT IV.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 8 pm
The Tank
279 Church Street
New York, NY
$5
Peter Evans, trumpet and piccolo trumpet
ICETANK continues with a solo performance by ICE trumpeter Peter Evans, whose new solo album on PSI, More is More, has taken the improvisation world by storm.
Magnus Lindberg
ICE’s Boston Debut!
January 17, 2008, 7 pm
Isabella Sewart Gardner Museum
280 The Fenway
Boston, MA
Portrait of Magnus Lindberg
Christian Knapp, guest conductor
Read the Boston Globe Review…
ICE makes its Boston debut with a repeat of the ensemble’s 2006 Miller Theatre Portrait of Magnus Lindberg, after critically acclaimed performances of the portrait in New York and San Francisco.
Program:
Linea d’Ombra (1983) for flute, clarinet, guitar and percussion
Clarinet Quintet (1992) for clarinet and string quartet
Decorrente (1992) for clarinet, guitar, cello, vibraphone
and piano
Duo Concertante (1992) for solo clarinet and cello and ensemble
January 21-23, 2008
Mario Diaz de Leon recordings for Tzadik Records
Boston, MA
ICE will record three new works for Mario Diaz de Leon’s new album on the Composer Series of John Zorn’s Tzadik label. Mario, who won ICE’s 21st Century Young Composers Award in 2006, is widely considered one of the most exciting young composers in New York today.
Phyllis Chen, toy piano and electronics
ICETANK! CONCERT V
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 7 pm
UNCAGED TOY PIANO ROADSHOW, Phase 2
The Tank
279 Church Street
New York, NY
$5
The toy piano is a 3-octave instrument made of plastic hammers and metal rods. Invented in the early 1900's, the toy piano has yet to be discovered for all of its charms by many composers. Due to the quirkiness of the tuning and limitation of range, the electro-acoustic hybrid of toy piano and electronics is an untapped new medium. Phyllis Chen, ICE’s resident toy pianist, premieres new works for toy piano and electronics by composers in her Toy Piano Call-for-Scores (winners announced January 2008).
David Schotzko
ICETANK! CONCERT VI
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 7:00 pm
SONIC MEDITATIONS
David Schotzko, solo percussion
The Tank
279 Church Street
New York, NY
$5
Sonic Meditations: classic music for percussion by Alvin Lucier, Edision Denisov, and Giacinto Scelsi. Featuring the World Premiere of Idaho/Gelboe by the Buffalo, NY based composer Otto Muller.
Cliff Colnot
Messiaen/Colnot WORLD PREMIERE
Friday, March 7, 2008, 7:30 pm
Music Institute of Chicago
Evanston, IL
ICE performs the world premiere of Cliff Colnot’s new arrangement of Olivier Messiaen’s sultry Chants de terre et de ciel (1938, arr. 2007) for mezzo-soprano (Julia Bentley) and an unconducted ICE ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, bass, piano and two percussion.
Chicago Tribune Review:
The Zhou Brothers
Zhou Brothers, CCF and ICE
New Music PLUS Painting
Saturday, March 8
6-9 pm
Performance begins at 7pm
FREE
Columbia College Conway Center
1104 S Wabash, 1st Floor
Chicago, IL 60605
We are excited to be collaborating with members of the Chicago Composers Forum and the world-renowned Zhou Brothers.
This collaboration with the Zhou Brothers (Shan Zuo and Da Huang Zhou), CCF-featured composers Nathan Davis, Guillermo Gregorio, Ryan Ingebritsen, and Christopher Preissing, and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) will transform the Conway Center into a landscape of new art and new music. Doors open at 6pm. Live painting and performance begins at 7pm.
DREAM DIALOGUE - Over the past 30 years, the Zhou Brothers have
developed a collaborative creation technique that is completely unique
and visionary. The concept of the "Dream Dialogue" being the primary
means of communication between two artists during the act of creation
is one that has implications outside the act of art creation in and
of
itself. It inspires a curiosity in what such collaboration could mean
to the human experience.
David Schotzko [photo by Jennifer Taylor]
SONIC MEDITATIONS: David Schotzko, solo percussion
Sunday, March 9, 2008 @ 3 pm
Flatfile Galleries
217 N. Carpenter in Chicago's West Loop
FREE ADMISSION, reception to follow
ICE is proud to present our own founding percussionist, the virtuosic and poetic David Schotzko.
Program:
Javier Alvarez
Temazcal for maracas and
tape (1986)
Alvin Lucier
Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra for
solo amplified triangle (1988)
Victor Adan
Solum: Multiplexor I for solo djembe (2007) **Chicago premiere
James Tenney
Koan
- Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (1972)
Iannis
Xenakis
Psappha for solo percussion
(1976)
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
CARLOS SANCHEZ-GUTIERREZ & STUDENTS
Sunday, March 16, 2008, 3 pm
Anderson
Center Chamber Hall
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
ICE performs in a lecture-recital with Mexican composer Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez as part of his residency with the Binghamton Philharmonic. ICE's program includes works by the master composer, alongside works by several of his former students and his longtime colleague, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
Program:
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
de Kooning variations for marimba and clarinet
Carolyn O'Brien
Electrum for piano trio
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Jácaras for piano trio
Edgar Guzman
New work for piano and tape, World Premiere
Carlos
Sanchez-Gutierrez
…and of course Henry the Horse… for
piano
four-hands, violin, cello)
Jennifer Koh, violin. Photo by Janette Beckman
March 27, 2008, 8 pm
ICE Pockets: Miller Theatre Pocket Concerto Project
2960 Broadway, New York, NY
Read the New York Times review…
Launched in the 2005-2006 season, the Miller Theatre Pocket Concerto Project was created to commission world-class composers to write new works for soloist and sinfonietta, inspired by such examples as György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto and John Adams’s Gnarly Buttons. Miller Theatre–favorites, including violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Christopher Taylor, bring to life new works by composers Laura Elise Schwendinger, Ichizo Okashiro, and John Zorn. Don’t miss the third and final installment of Miller Theatre’s Pocket Concerto Project!
Jennifer Koh, violin
Christopher Taylor, piano
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
International Contemporary Ensemble
Jayce Ogren, conductor
Alex Lipowski, percussion
William Winant, percussion
Ikue Mori, electronics
Laura Elise Schwendinger: Chiaroscuro Azzurro (for violin and chamber orchestra)
Ichizo Okashiro: The Starry Night
(for piano and chamber orchestra)
John Zorn:
The Prophetic Mysteries of Angels, Witches, and Demons
Nathan Davis
ICETANK! CONCERT VII
Music of Nathan Davis
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 7:30pm
The Tank
279 Church Street
New York, NY
$5
ICETANK! presents the inventive poetic percussionist-composer Nathan Davis in an entire program of works written for ICE over the past two years, including a world premiere for clarinet, trumpet, flute, electric guitar, percussion and piano. Nathan Davis makes music that is inspired by natural processes, acoustic phenomena, and the abstraction of simple stories. The pieces on this program are the fruits of Nathan's close collaboration with several ICE musicians, featuring the world premieres of a piece for solo marimba and a mixed quintet commissioned by ICE in 2007.
The Bright and Hollow Sky (world premiere) for ensemble and
electronics
Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by
the Jerome Foundation.
Claire Chase, flutes, Joshua Rubin, clarinets, Peter Evans, trumpets,
Joseph Brent, guitar, David Schotzko, percussion
When to Stop (world premiere) for solo marimba
Adam Sliwinski, marimba
Dowser for bass clarinet and electronics
Joshua Rubin, bass clarinet
pneApnea for alto flute and electronics
Claire Chase, alto flute
Saturday, April 5, 2008, 8 pm
Music of Columbia University Student Composers
Merkin Concert Hall
New York, NY
Eight World Premieres
by Columbia University graduate students
for mixed ensemble
Matt Ward, guest conductor
DANIEL IGLESIA Renegotiation (2008)
flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, piano, violin, viola, cello, and electronic
percussion
MAHIR CETIZ Waterprints (2008)
flutes, clarinets, trumpet, vibraphone, piano, violin, cello
ANTHONY CHEUNG Color Coordinate(s) (2008)
flutes, clarinets, horn, trumpet, percussion, harp,
piano, violin, viola, cello
MARIO DIAZ DE LEON The Flesh Needs Fire (2008)
flute, clarinet, electronics
JEFF SNYDER Vox In Vitro (2008)
bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, vibraphone, marimba,
harp, counterharmonium, treble contravielle,
tenor contravielle, violin, viola, cello
OSCAR BIANCHI Trasparente II (2007–2008)
flutes, clarinets, horn, trumpet, percussions, harp,
piano, violin, viola, cello
ALEXANDRE LUNSQUI Areia II (2006–07)
flutes, clarinets, horn, trumpet, percussion,
harp, piano, violin, viola, cello
LU WANG Siren Song (2008)
flutes, clarinets, horn, trumpet, percussion,
harp, piano, violin, viola, cello
Stravinsky Festival
Presented by Miller Theatre
No other composer in the twentieth century wrote in such a multiplicity of styles as Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). From neo-classicism to serialism, ballet to chamber works, Stravinsky’s musical genius was wide-ranging. Miller Theatre at Columbia University explores this epic composer’s astonishing variety in this Festival featuring over 45 works drawn from his chamber music, songs, choral compositions, and orchestral music.
Program I
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 @
7:30pm
Stravinsky's Chamber Music
Gilder Lehrman Hall
The Morgan Library and Museum
Madison Avenue at
36th Street, NYC
New York Times review of this concert:
Many Instruments, One With No
Player
Russell Platt, in The New Yorker:
Igor's Own
Some of Stravinsky’s greatest works are chamber compositions, many of which are seldom heard in concert. Beginning with "Dumbarton Oaks" concerto, this program moves through works for 15 and fewer musicians.
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Jayce Ogren, conductor
“Dumbarton Oaks” concerto (1937-38)
Eight Instrumental Miniatures (1962)
Concertino for Twelve Instruments (1952)
Ragtime (1917-18)
Octet (1922-23)
Septet (1952-53)
Pastorale (1933)
Three pieces for String Quartet(1914)
Double Canon (1959)
Epitaphium (1959)
Fanfare for a New Theatre (1964)
Lied ohne Name (1916-18)
Three Pieces for solo clarinet (1918)
Elégie (1944)
Study (1917)
Program II
Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Stravinsky's Complete Songs
Gilder Lehrman Hall
The Morgan Library and Museum
Madison Avenue at 36th Street, NYC
Call the Box Office at 212-854-7799
To order tickets by mail: click here
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Featuring works for voice accompanied by large and small ensemble and piano, this blockbuster evening showcases Stravinsky’s complete output of songs. Don’t miss this comprehensive journey that traverses 64 years of the composer’s career, from his first extant work to his last completed song.
Tony Arnold, soprano
Alison Tupay, mezzo-soprano
Gregory Warren, tenor
Craig Phillips, bass-baritone
Matthew Worth, baritone
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Steven Osgood, conductor
Storm Cloud (1902)
How the Mushrooms went to War (1904)
The Faun and the Shepherdess, Op. 2 (1907)
Two songs on poems by Gorodetsky, Op. 6 (1908)
Two songs of Paul Verlaine, Op. 9 (1910)
Two poems of Konstantin Balmont (1911/1954)
Three Japanese Lyrics (1912-13)
Three Little Songs (1913/1930)
Nonsense Rhymes (1914)
Cat's Cradle Songs (1915)
The Bear’s Little Song (1916-17)
Lullaby (1917)
Four Russian Songs (1919)
Russian Maiden’s Song (from Mavra) (1922)
Three Songs from William Shakespeare (1953)
In memoriam Dylan Thomas (1954)
Elegy for J.F.K. (1964)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1966)
A five-concert festival produced by Miller Theatre at Columbia University in association with Park Avenue Armory and the Morgan Library and Museum with the generous underwriting of The Reed Foundation.
Purchase a Stravinsky Festival Package today: $150 for all five Stravinsky
Festival concerts!
To order your package call the Miller Theatre Box Office at 212-854-7799.
Boosey & Hawkes; Benjamin Newton
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Friday, April 18 @ 8 pm
Hi-Fi Music Festival
Death by Audio
49 South 2nd Street, Brooklyn
$10
ICE will be making an appearance at the Hi-Fi Music Festival,
along
with the new-music groups Grenzalos and Mantra Percussion:
Stockhausen:
Mikrophronie I
for tam-tam, two microphones, two filters
and controllers
in duo realization by Nathan Davis
performed by
Nathan Davis and David Schotzko
April 29, 2008, 8 pm
Music by NYU Composers
Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
ICE continues its residency with the Composition Department of New York University with an annual marathon concert of world premieres by the department’s graduate students. Matthew Ward guest conducts.
ICE PRESENTS 3G
3 Generaciones de Compositores Mexicanos:
A celebration of three
generations of new music from Mexico
10 WORLD PREMIERES. 10 US PREMIERES.
May 2-7, 2008
New York City
More info…
May 8-16, 2008
Columbia College Residency
Chicago, IL
ICE is back at Columbia College Chicago for a residency that encompasses six concerts of new work by student composers, including an advanced composition course in writing for ICE chamber orchestra.
Friday, May 9 @ 7:30 pm
3G comes to Chicago!
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue
On the heels of ICE's New York 3G festival, ICE is proud to present a run-out 3G program in Chicago featuring the Midwest premieres of three major new works written for ICE by the celebrated Mexican composers Julio Estrada, Ignacio Baca Lobera and German Romero.
The
concert will feature the Grammy nominated
ICE soprano Tony Arnold
and ten members of ICE.
Admission is free, but reservations are requested:
312/494.2655 or icicle@iceorg.org
Sunday, May 11 @ 2pm
Cory Smythe, solo piano
The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
4802 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL
$5 cover
ICE is proud to present our pianist Cory Smythe in a special solo
recital featuring works by Magnus Lindberg, Julio Estrada, Lee Hyla,
Carlo Gesualdo, among others, with intermittent improvisations and
occasional electronics.
May 29-June 5, 2008
Los Hielitos en Mexico: Mexico Tour
ICE will return to Mexico for performances, recordings, master classes
and educational outreach activities in Mexico City, Queretaro and
Mexico.
Clarinetists Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin
ICETANK! CONCERT VIII
Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 8 pm
Low-Matic All-Stars
The Tank
279 Church Street
New York, NY
$5
The Low-matic All Stars take the Tank for a program featuring new music for bass clarinets. ICE clarinetists Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin present strictly bass premieres of works by Filipe Lara, Nathan Davis, Hiram Navarrete, and other rarely heard bassy gems from Ignacio Baca Lobera and John Zorn.
LATE SPRING TBA
ICE’s THIRD RECORD RELEASE!
Music of George Crumb
Bridge Records 75th Anniversary Edition
ICE is proud to release an album on Bridge Records’ George Crumb 75th Anniversary Edition (complete works of the composer), featuring the following Crumb classics:
Vox Balaenae (1971)
Dream Sequence (1976)
Eleven Echoes of Autumn (1966)
Five Pieces for Piano (1962)
The Sleeper (1984, with Jamie van Eyck, mezzo-soprano)
