The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is a
contemporary classical music ensemble, based in
New York City
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Chicago
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. ICE performs a diverse and extensive array of chamber, electro-acoustic, improvisatory, and multimedia works.
History
The International Contemporary Ensemble was founded in 2001 by
Claire Chase
Claire Chase (born 1978) is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music. Chase has won the Avery Fisher Prize, which recognizes musical excellence, vision, and leadership. In 2012, Chase was awarded a MacArt ...
(Ensemble flautist and executive director). The early ensemble—consisting primarily of alumni from the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio—presented its first Chicago concert at the Three Arts Club in January 2002. In the following year, the Ensemble made its New York City debut at the
Miller Theatre
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In 1988, the former McMillin Theater was renovated and ...
, and have since split their activities between Chicago and New York.
Since its founding, the Ensemble has premiered over 500 compositions, many of these commissions and collaborations spawning from their noteworthy residency programs: the 21st Century Young Composers Project and ICElab. In addition to commissioning emerging composers, the ensemble has also premiered numerous works by world-renowned composers, including
Georges Aperghis
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,
Alvin Lucier,
Pauline Oliveros
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,
John Zorn,
David Lang,
Liza Lim
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,
Dai Fujikura
Dai Fujikura ( ja, 藤倉 大 ''Fujikura Dai''; born 27 April 1977) is a Japanese-born composer of contemporary classical music.
Biography
Dai Fujikura was born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan. He moved to London when he was 15 to study at Dover Col ...
,
Chaya Czernowin,
Julio Estrada,
Amir Shpilman
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Education and career
Shpilman was born in Tel Aviv where he started his composition studies at the age of 17. After three years in Paris where he studied solfege, harmony piano and c ...
,
George E. Lewis,
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
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, and Carla Kihlstedt, among others.
The International Contemporary Ensemble has performed at the Lincoln Center Festival (New York), Musica Nova Helsinki (Finland), Wien Modern (Austria), Acht Brücken Music for Cologne (Germany), La Cité de la Musique (Paris), the
Darmstädter Ferienkurse
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(Germany), Mostly Mozart Festival (New York), as well as tours of Japan, Brazil and France. They have held residencies at the
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York University, Columbia College (Chicago), and Conservatorio de las Rosas (Morelia, Mexico), among others.
Members
ICE is a flexible collective of thirty-four performing artists, including strings, woodwinds, piano, percussion, voice, light and sound designers. As an artist-run organization, most of ICE’s executive leadership, concert production, marketing, fundraising, technology and database systems are managed by members of the ensemble.
Discography
* ''Abandoned Time'' Daniel Lippel (New Focus Recordings, 2008)
* ''Afterglow'' composer Keeril Makan (
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, 2013)
With
John Zorn
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With
John Adams
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* ''Son Of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet'' St. Lawrence String Quartet (
Nonesuch, 2011)
References
External links
International Contemporary EnsembleOfficial website
digitICEICE's digital media library
ICE pressICE's press database: articles, interviews, and reviews
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Contemporary classical music ensembles