Young Composers Project
ICE is proud to announce the six young composers selected for our 21st Century Young Composers Project: Vassos Nicolau (GERMANY), Panayiotis Kokoras (GREECE), Johannes Boris Borowski (GERMANY), Christopher Moore (USA), Tsai-Yun Huang (TAIWAN), Mario Diaz de Leon (USA)
The 21st Century Young Composers Project is made possible by The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Additional support is provided by NYSCA, Meet the Composer's JPMorganChase Regrant Program for Small Ensembles, the Fund for Creative Communities and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, a program of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
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). Download Press Release…
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. He will be joined by members of ICE's wind section (Joshua Rubin, Eric Lamb and Claire Chase).
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
Hsiu-Hsiu Chang (b. 1972, Taiwan): Capriccio, NYC Premiere
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 choregraphed 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 violin 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 2 - 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.
Previous YCP Events
New Voices from Around the World October 2006
Two concerts of new classical music from emerging composers from around the globe.
Including premieres by 2004 and 2006
21st Century Young Composers Project
winners:
Johannes Borowski (Germany)
Vassos Nicolaou (Cyprus)
Alexandra Karastroyanova-Hermentin (Bulgaria)
Mario Diaz de Leon (US)
Du Yun (China)
Dai Fujikura (Japan)
International Contemporary Ensemble, performers
Christian Knapp, guest conductor
Concert 1
Johannes Borowski
Vassos Nicolaou
Mario Diaz de Leon
Du Yun
Dai Fujikura
October 18, 2006
Merkin Concert Hall of The Kaufman
Center
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
Co-produced by The Washington Square Contemporary Music Society
Program:
Johannes Borowski (Germany)
Inseln, Studie 2 for chamber orchestra (2005) US PREMIERE
Vassos
Nicolaou (Cyprus)
Prisma, for sextet
(2005) US PREMIERE
Alexandra Karastroyanova-Hermentin
(Bulgaria)
Tango-No-Tango for quartet
(2005) WORLD PREMIERE
Sophocles Papavasilopoulos
(US)
Pasa Pnoi for byzantine chanter and seven players
(2005)
Mario
Diaz de Leon (USA)
Trembling Time for seven players and electronics
(2006)
WORLD PREMIERE
Huang Ruo (China)
The Lost Garden – Concerto
No. 2 for 12 Players
(2002, rev. 2006) WORLD PREMIERE
Concert 2
October 22, 2006
Monkeytown
58 N 3rd St
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Co-produced by Monkeytown
Program, 7:30pm:
Vassos Nicolaou
Prisma for Sextet (2005)
Ignacio Baca Lobera
Occasional Exit for bass clarinet and percussion (2004)
Estudio for bass clarinet and organ (2002)
Suzanne Farrin
Clarinet and Vibraphone (2005)
From fair and fur... for electric guitar and two vibraphones
(2002)
Mario Diaz de Leon
Trembling Time for seven players and electronics (2006)
Program, 10:00pm:
Huang Ruo
Opening: To the Four Corners, for clarinet and percussion
(2005)
Dai Fujikura
Poison Mushroom for flute and electronics (2003)
Edgar Guzman
Anima for guitar and electronics (2005)
Peter Gilbert
Riccochet for guitar and electronics (2002)
Nathan Davis
Kebyar Untai for solo amplified dulcimer (2005)
Du Yun
San1 for percussion and electronic sounds (2003)
Lethean (2005
