As a part of the NYPL and ICE series Collecting Composers, the Ensemble joins Dai Fujikura in an open conversation and workshop.
A "pocket" chamber edition of the Ione and Pauline Oliveros "Phantom" opera, utilizing live performance, electronics, and moving images to create a deep dream exploration of Nubian soul and colonial mind, featuring the collaborative trio of Ione (text, direction, and performance), Monica Duncan (visuals, performance), and Senem Pirler (sound, performance).
Inspired by the Collecting Composers series collaboration between NYPL and the International Contemporary Ensemble, Collecting Performers will bring the audience into the performers' practice and mind.
Members of International Contemporary Ensemble rehearse and workshop the compositional language of the ICEcommons Artist in Residence, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir.
Members of the International Contemporary host an exploration of the Library’s collection of graphic scores, especially the John Cage, Alison Knowles seminal anthology Notations.
Members of International Contemporary Ensemble rehearse and workshop the compositional language of the ICEcommons Artist in Residence, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir.
At the NYPL's invitation, ICE publicly addresses the famous Harvard Norton Lectures by Leonard Bernstein, given in 1973.
EntICE, ICE's education program of collaborations with youth orchestras around the country, continues with our inaugural partnership with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.
ICE continues our tour of excellent New England colleges with this short residency at Amherst. The visit will culminate with a concert featuring Wojtek Blecharz's Music for Invisible Places—an OpenICE commission—and Pauline Oliveros's Earth Ears, an ICE specialty.
ICE presents the world premiere of Wojtek Blecharz's Music for Invisible Places, an OpenICE commission.
OpenICE's Chicago season continues with this one-night-only event at the Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery in Wicker Park.
OpenICE presents Katinka Kleijn (cello) and Ross Karre (percussion) in an evening of experimental solo works by Ashley Fure, Pauline Oliveros, and more. The event will also be the launch of Karre's solo CD 10.76 cycles.
Our free OpenICE performances of 2017-18 season kick off at the Abrons Arts Center with this weekend of thrilling programs curated, as always, by the ICE performers.
Our free OpenICE performances of the 2017-18 season kick off at the Abrons Arts Center with this weekend of thrilling programs, curated as always by the ICE performers
Constellation, one of ICE’s favorite Chicago venues, has us back! OpenICE presents two projects in one concert featuring work created by its members.
Wojtek Blecharz, a longtime associate of ICE and a gifted composer, premieres excerpts from a new commissioned work.
Come see our second concert collaboration with the amazing L'itinéraire as we embark on a joint tour of the eastern seaboard and Europe. This program mixes European and American pieces as both ensembles share secrets of the trade.
A big premiere by Chaya Czernowin is the main event of this portrait concert. Czernowin’s incredibly demanding new work for solo singer, consisting almost entirely of breathing sounds, features Tony Arnold at her most resourceful.
Composer Sabrina Schroeder, a distinguishedICElab alumna, furthers her collaboration with ICE in this OpenICE public workshop that features her experimenting with new musical materials for a major work.
OpenICE keeps exploring new work and presenting it completely free of cost to audiences. This week-long residency at the Abrons Arts Center's Underground space, a classic and charming black-box theatre, presents concerts, workshops, and open rehearsals.
ICE returns to Chicago for its next iteration of OpenICE, featuring four days of free programming from February 17 to 20.
The ICE wind instruments visit our very own Campbell Macdonald's home of Fort Wayne for the first time, with an OpenICE concert featuring a new work by Ft. Wayne native Brooks Fredrickson.
As its next installment of free OpenICE initiatives, ICE presents a rare performance of renowned German composer Wolfgang Rihm’s hourlong string trio Musik für Drei Streicher.
OpenICE Chicago continues with free events, all over the city! Three evenings of concerts curated by ICE's star soloists show their unique perspectives on the repertoire. Open workshops with Polish composer Wojtek Blecharz are also open to the public--get some insight into ICE's collaborative working process as we design a new project!
ICE continues its 2016-2017 residency at Abrons Arts Center with three evenings of free concerts. These OpenICE events feature some of the ensemble's most adventurous programming, all free of cost, at the small experimental theater spaces at Abrons.
Sunday's evening concert is the final event in the Season Launch at Abrons Plahouse for OpenICE 2016-17. The event will feature the passionate improvisers of ICE in a free collaboration with swedish experimental vocal performer and improviser, Sofia Jernberg.
The weekend of the 2016-17 OpenICE season launch will culminate in a concert featuring new music by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, alongside master vocalist and improviser Sofia Jernberg.
On Sunday, Sept 18th at 11am, ICE will host a preview of a new archiving project lead by Hild Borchgrevink (Nordic Music Days) and Ross Karre (ICEcommons.org & metafields.org).
The 2016-17 OpenICE season launches September 16 - 18 at the Abrons Arts Center with a celebration of vastly different styles of performance.
ICE's Erik Carlson (violin) and Dan Lippel (guitar) will present the rarely-heard 4 messages for violin and guitar which is four hours in duration.
