Tuesday, August 22 | 10:30pm

ICE makes Lincoln Center debut!
Mostly Mozart Festival

Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Lincoln Center, New York City

NY Times plug…

Seen and Heard International Concert Review By Bruce Hodges…

August 28, 2006 | 8pm

ICE at the Spiegeltent!
Fulton Street Fish Market
South Street Seaport
New York City PDF brochure…

DARMSTADT: CLASSICS OF THE AVANT GARDE
Music of Cage, Xenakis, Andriessen and Du Yun

NY Times preview…

NY Times review…

Friday, October 6, 2006 | 7:30pm

Music of Mario Davidovsky / Photography of Lucio Boschi
A Sound/Image Event

 

Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art
115 Wooster Street between Prince and Spring

Tickets are $15 General/$10 Student & Senior
available at the door or in advance
Call 347.28.GO.ICE for more information

The International Contemporary Ensemble and Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art are proud to present a Sound/Image Event pairing the music of the legendary New York-based Argentinean composer Mario Davidovsky with an exhibition of new photographs by the young Argentinean photographer Lucio Boschi.

More info…

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 | 8:00pm

YCP Concert 1
New Voices from Around the World
New classical music from emerging composers from around the globe

Merkin Concert Hall of The Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
Tickets: $15, seniors, $10, students $5

For reservations contact Merkin Hall: 212.501.3330 kaufman-center.org
Co-produced by The Washington Square Contemporary Music Society

Music of Johannes Borowski, Vassos Nicolaou, Alexandra Karastroyanova-Hermentin, Sophocles Papavasilopoulos, Mario Diaz de Leon, and Huang Ruo

More info…

Sunday, October 22, 2006 | 7:30pm & 10:00pm

YCP Concert 2
New Voices from Around the World
New classical music from emerging composers from around the globe

Monkeytown
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Tickets: $5 cover

For reservations contact Monkeytown: 718.384.1369 www.monkeytownHQ.com
Co-produced by Monkeytown

Music of Vassos Nicolaou, Ignacio Baca Lobera, Suzanne Farrin, Mario Diaz de Leon, Huang Ruo, Dai Fujikura, Edgar Guzman, Peter Gilbert, Nathan Davis, and Du Yun

More info…

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 @ 6pm

Music at St. Paul's

St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
Broadway and 116th Street, NYC
Subway: 1/9 to 116th Street (Columbia University)
Free and open to the public

New Chamber Music with Harp
featuring ICE harpist Bridget Kibbey

Download Press Release

with:
David Bowlin, violin
Joe Brent, mandolin
Claire Chase, alto flute
Daniel Lippel, guitar

Program

Elliot Carter: Bariolage for solo harp

Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea for alto flute and harp
   1. The Night  
   2.Moby Dick  
   3. Cape Cod

André Caplet: A l'espagnol for harp solo

Sebastian Currier: Nighttime for violin and harp
   1. Dusk  
   2. Sleepless  
   3. Vespers 
   4. Nightwind
   5. Starlight

Hans Werner Henze: Carillon, Recitatif, Masque for guitar, mandolin, and harp

Kati Agocs: Every Lover is a Warrior for harp solo

Sunday, February 25, 2007 @ 7:30pm

NYU/First Performance
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011

Brand new music by NYU Graduate Student Composers

ICE ALL OVER! April 25-May 5, 2007

WILLIAMSBURG•SOHO•BUSHWICK•UPPER WEST SIDE•LOWER EAST SIDE
TRIBECA•CHELSEA•UPPER EAST SIDE•SUNSET PARK

New York's most hyperactive new-music band launches ICE ALL OVER, a nine-program, nine-venue, nine-neighborhood tour of the city featuring music by young and emerging composers from the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America (and a few old guys and gals thrown in here and there).

 

Program I

CLAIRE CHASE @ DARMSTADT
Classics of the Avant-Garde

April 25 @ 8 pm
Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg
(347) 284.6423
$5 cover

Founding ICE flutist Claire Chase opens the festival with a program of hot-off-the-press works for flute and electronics by young composers, alongside a few old standards…

Program:
Nathan Davis (b. 1973, US): Untitled (2007), World Premiere
Dai Fujikura (b. 1977, Japan): Poison Mushroom (2003)
Mikael Karlsson (b. 1971, Sweden): Nasty Fucker (2005)
Zach Layton: ryoanji machine (2007), World Premiere
Steve Reich (b. 1936): Vermont Counterpoint (1982)

 

Program II

Gareth Davis w/ICE

Friday, April 27 @ 7:30 pm
Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art
115 Wooster Street, SoHo
(347) 284.6423
$5 students/$10 general

ICE is proud to present the sensational young Amsterdam-based clarinetist Gareth Davis in a program of new works by young American and European composers for clarinet and electronics.

Program:
Martin Stig Andersen (b. 1973, Denmark): Rabbit at the airport, US Premiere
Martin Stig Anderson (b. 1973, Denmark): Essential Tree Work
Kirsten Broberg (b. 1979, US): Suspended, World Premiere
Evan Johnson (b. 1980, US): Supplement
Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968, Austria): Spleen

 

Program III

ICE @ AMBUSH

Saturday, April 28 @ 8pm
Bushwick Starr
207 Starr Street, 2nd Floor, Bushwick
(917) 459.1072
$5 donation

ICE joins up with Chez Bushwick's AMBUSH, an artist-run series of interdisciplinary dance & performance events designed to challenge the status quo of performance presentation. For ICE's portion of this shared program, new works by the inventive ICE percussionist/composer Nathan Davis (b. 1973, US) are choreographed by members of The Moving Theater Company.

Program:
Nathan Davis: April Showers (2001) for three players with waterguns
Nathan Davis: Talking to Vasudeva (2002) for river stones, processing and field recordings

 

ICE Recommends…

David Bowlin, ICE violinist w/ the Bulgarian Virtuosi

Sunday, April 29 @ 2pm
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
154 W. 57th Street
(212) 247.7800

The rest of the band has the night off while founding ICE violinist David Bowlin is a featured soloist in this concert presented by the Bulgarian Virtuosi Artists, performing the world premiere of ICE YCP 2004 winner Alexandra Karastroyanova-Hermentin's concerto for violin and strings.

 

Program IV

The ICE Big Band plays music by NYU Composers

Monday, April 30 @ 8 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
129 W 67th Street, NYC
(212) 501.3303
$10/ FREE FOR STUDENTS

Matthew Ward, guest conductor
Corey Dargel, guest singer

In the ensemble's annual marathon event at Merkin Concert Hall, ICE expands to a 12-piece ensemble and premieres fresh new work by NYU grad students. Eight world premieres by Felipe Lara, Jenny Johnson, Alex Ness, Hila Tamir, Clara
Latham, Ryan Dorin, and Jessica Schwartz.

 

Program V

ICE/Huang Ruo CD RELEASE PARTY

Tuesday, May 1 @ 9 pm
Mo' Pitkins House of Satisfaction
34 Avenue A, Lower East Side
(212) 777.5660
$5 cover

ICE celebrates the release of our first disc on Naxos Records with a performance of several of the tracks on the record, as well as newer works by the rising star Huang Ruo (b. 1976). ICE plays 9-10:30pm; join us next door for the after-party at Sadie's Lounge with ICE pianist Cory Smythe and guest percussionist Tyshawn Sorey. Huang Ruo drink specials, Cuban Reuben sandwiches, CDs on sale at the bar, and more…

Huang Ruo Program:
Tree Without Wind (2006) for solo piano
The Lost Garden: Concerto No. 2 for Eight Players (2000)
Atmosphere and Environment (2007), NY Premiere

 

Program VI

ICE @ The Tank

Wednesday, May 2 @ 7 pm
The Tank
279 Church Street (Franklin and White), Tribeca
(212) 563.6269
$5 cover

ICE presents a chamber-music program of New York, US and World Premieres by visionary young voices from China, Eastern Europe, the UK and the US.

Du Yun (b. 1976, China): Lethean (2007), World Premiere
Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967, UK): Molly's Song 3 - Shades of Crimson (1996)
Tsai-Yun Huang (b. 1979, Taiwan): NEW WORK (2007), World Premiere
Alexandra Karastroyanova-Hermentin (b. 1965, Bulgaria): Purple Membrane (2007), World Premiere
Suzanne Farrin (b. 1976, US): From Fair and Fur… (2000)

 

Program VII

ICE @ Look and Listen Festival

Thursday, May 3 @ 8pm
Robert Miller Gallery
524 W. 26th Street, Chelsea
$10

ICE is honored to join the Look & Listen festival this year with performances of two works by young ICE composers Dai Fujikura and Panayiotis Kokoras in addition to ICE performances of works by Magnus Lindberg and Steve Mackey. ICE is joined by special guests John Zorn and Steve Mackey, and will share the bill with cracker-jack performances by the Eclipse String Quartet, Lisa Bielawa, Abby Fischer, Kirsten Sollek, and Kate Mulvill.

ICE program:
Dai Fujikura (b. 1977, Japan): Edge of Light (2003), NY Premiere
Panayiotis Kokoras (b. 1974, Greece): Aeolian Resonance (2006), US Premiere
Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958, Finland): Linea D'Ombra (1992)

Visit www.lookandlisten.org for full program details and ticket information.

 

Program VIII

Young Mexican Composers

Friday, May 4 @ 7 pm
The Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
(212) 249.8950
Free Admission

Mexican flutist/composer/scholar Wilfrido Terrazas, a longtime ICE collaborator and repertoire advisor, goes solo on this program of US and World Premieres by rising young Mexican composers.

Víctor García Pichardo (b. 1971):
3720 (2006-07) for amplified flute and electronics (World Premiere)

Juan José Bárcenas (b. 1982):
Conducta en los velorios (2006) for amplified bass flute and electronics
(US Premiere)

Hiram Navarrete (b. 1976):
Nexpa (2006) for solo flute (US Premiere)

Mauricio Rodríguez (b. 1976):
_ (2006) for amplified alto flute headjoint (World Premiere)

Víctor Adán (b. 1973):
Multiplexor III (2006) for amplified prepared flute (World Premiere)

Ignacio Baca-Lobera (b. 1957):
Automatic Species (2006-07) for amplified bass flute and electronics (US Premiere)

 

Program IX

Peter Evans w/ICE

Saturday, May 5 @ 5pm
ICEHAUS: Brooklyn Center for Contemporary Music, Sunset Park
4306 3rd Avenue, 4th Floor
Brooklyn
FREE ADMISSION, reservations required: (347) 284.6423

ICE closes the festival with an improvisation event in the ensemble's new 2600 sq foot loft in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, featuring the newest addition to the ICE family: the sensational ICE trumpeter Peter Evans.

May 22 & 23 @ 7:30 pm

PS 122
150 1st Avenue, New York City
Tony Arnold, guest soprano
Habib Azar, guest director

 

The New York Times review: The Diligent Undertake the Difficult

ICE returns to Performance Space 122 in New York City!

ICE is thrilled to return to downtown New York's premiere experimental theatre, PS 122, with a new production of Luigi Nono's politically charged 1966 work, "A Floresta è jovem e cheja de vida" for soprano, clarinet, 3 speakers, 5 percussionists and multi-track tape.

We are honored to be joined by Tony Arnold, guest soprano and Habib Azar, guest director.

June 3, 2007 @ 5:10 pm and 7:07 pm

ICE plays at the Bang on a Can Marathon
World Financial Center
Winter Garden
2 World Financial Center
New York, NY

Music of Galina Ustvolskaya and David Lang

 

June 11, 2007 @ 8 pm

Teatro Ocampo
Morelia, Mexico
3rd International Festival of Contemporary Music in Michoacan, Mexico

"Los Hielitos" en Mexico…

The Icicles are proud to be the ensemble-in-residence at the 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Music in Michoacan, Mexico, playing two concerts, workshopping pieces by young composers, participating in a national competition for young Mexican composers, and mentoring students at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Michoacan.

"In Tempore Belli"

Music of Jason Eckardt, George Crumb and Luigi Nono

Jason Eckardt (b. 1971)
16
Based on sixteen words from George Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address
MEXICO PREMIERE

Claire Chase, flute
Jennifer Curtis, violin
Wendy Richman, viola
Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello

George Crumb (b. 1929)
Black Angels
Thirteen Images from the Dark Land for Electric String Quartet

In tempore belli, 1970/ in time of war, 1970

David Bowlin, violin
Jennifer Curtis, violin
Wendy Richman, viola
Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello

Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
a floresta é jovem cheja de vida/the forest is young and full of life
For soprano, clarinet, three speakers, five percussionists and multi-channel tape

Dedicated to the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, 1966
MEXICO PREMIERE

Habib Azar, director

Tony Arnold, soprano
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Claire Chase, speaker
Wendy Richman, speaker
Peter Tantsits, speaker
David Schotzko, percussion
David Bowlin, percussion
Jennifer Curtis, percussion
Kivie Cahn-Lipman, percussion