International Contemporary Ensemble
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The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is a contemporary classical music
ensemble of thirty chamber musicians, including strings, woodwinds, piano, percussion, voice and composers, which enables great flexibility of programming. ICE performs works scored for ensembles from solos and duos to chamber orchestra, as well as multi-media works, works utilizing extended techniques and non-western instruments, and improvisatory and electro-acoustic works.
With ongoing residencies at New York University, New York, Columbia College, Chicago, and Conservatorio de las Rosas, Morelia, Mexico, the group is considered to be one of the most important and effective proponents of new concert music in the United States. They are unique among U.S.-based new music ensembles for championing and performing music by European, Latin American, and Asian composers rarely performed in the U.S., such as Ignacio Baca Lobera, Dai Fujikura
, and Philippe Manoury
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Members of the ensemble include: flutists Eric Lamb and Claire Chase, who also serves as the ICE's executive director; percussionists Nathan Davis and David Schotzko, who also serves as ICE's artistic director; violinists David Bowlin, Jennifer Curtis, Marc Rovetti and Alison Zlotow; violists Maiya Papach, and Wendy Richman; cellists Kivie Cahn-Lipman and Katinka Kleijn; bassist Randall Zigler; pianists Phyllis Chen, Jacob Greenberg, William McDaniel, Spencer Myer, and Cory Smythe; harpists Bridget Kibbey and Nuiko Wadden; guitarist Daniel Lippel; saxophonist David Reminick; oboist Nick Masterson; clarinetists Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin; trumpeters Peter Evans and Gareth Flowers; and vocalists Peter Tantsits and Tony Arnold. Composers Huang Ruo and Du Yun were among the ensemble's founders. Program decisions are vetted by a Roundtable Committee consisting of ensemble members David Bowlin, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Bridget Kibbey, Wendy Richman, Joshua Rubin, Cory Smythe, and Du Yun.
March 11, 2004
After School Specialists Frank J. Oteri
, NewMusicBox
, Published: May 1, 2007
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
ensemble of thirty chamber musicians, including strings, woodwinds, piano, percussion, voice and composers, which enables great flexibility of programming. ICE performs works scored for ensembles from solos and duos to chamber orchestra, as well as multi-media works, works utilizing extended techniques and non-western instruments, and improvisatory and electro-acoustic works.
With ongoing residencies at New York University, New York, Columbia College, Chicago, and Conservatorio de las Rosas, Morelia, Mexico, the group is considered to be one of the most important and effective proponents of new concert music in the United States. They are unique among U.S.-based new music ensembles for championing and performing music by European, Latin American, and Asian composers rarely performed in the U.S., such as Ignacio Baca Lobera, Dai Fujikura
Dai Fujikura
is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Dai Fujikura left home in Osaka at 15 and went to study at Dover College in the UK, his adopted home. His initial ambition was to compose music for cinema...
, and Philippe Manoury
Philippe Manoury
Philippe Manoury is a French composer.-Biography:Philippe Manoury was born in Tulle. His first composition studies were at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, with Gérard Condé and Max Deutsch. He continued his studies from 1974 to 1978 at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michel Philippot, Ivo...
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Members of the ensemble include: flutists Eric Lamb and Claire Chase, who also serves as the ICE's executive director; percussionists Nathan Davis and David Schotzko, who also serves as ICE's artistic director; violinists David Bowlin, Jennifer Curtis, Marc Rovetti and Alison Zlotow; violists Maiya Papach, and Wendy Richman; cellists Kivie Cahn-Lipman and Katinka Kleijn; bassist Randall Zigler; pianists Phyllis Chen, Jacob Greenberg, William McDaniel, Spencer Myer, and Cory Smythe; harpists Bridget Kibbey and Nuiko Wadden; guitarist Daniel Lippel; saxophonist David Reminick; oboist Nick Masterson; clarinetists Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin; trumpeters Peter Evans and Gareth Flowers; and vocalists Peter Tantsits and Tony Arnold. Composers Huang Ruo and Du Yun were among the ensemble's founders. Program decisions are vetted by a Roundtable Committee consisting of ensemble members David Bowlin, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Bridget Kibbey, Wendy Richman, Joshua Rubin, Cory Smythe, and Du Yun.
Interviews
The Fiddler of the Opera SoundcheckSoundcheck
A soundcheck is the preparation that takes place before a concert, speech, or similar performance, when the performer and the sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system to make sure that the sound in the venue's "Front Of House" and stage monitor sound...
March 11, 2004
After School Specialists Frank J. Oteri
Frank J. Oteri
Frank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City.Oteri's musical works have been performed in venues from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art...
, NewMusicBox
NewMusicBox
NewMusicBox is an e-zine launched by the American Music Center on May 1, 1999. The magazine includes interviews and articles concerning American Contemporary Music, composers, improvisers, and musicians....
, Published: May 1, 2007
External links
- International Contemporary Ensemble Official website
- NewMusicBox: After School Specialists ICE, eighth blackbirdEighth blackbirdeighth blackbird is a Grammy Award-winning contemporary music sextet based in Chicago. The group derives its name from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird...
, and Timothy Weiss in conversation with Frank J. OteriFrank J. OteriFrank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City.Oteri's musical works have been performed in venues from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art...
(includes video) - New York Times: Concert Itinerary That Includes Dreamland feature article (registration required)
- Art of the States: International Contemporary Ensemble ICE performances of three works