In 2012 we presented the world premiere of Carla Kihlstedt’s At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire, a major ICElab commission. Written for nine members of ICE plus Kihlstedt, the song cycle is based on images, impressions and textures taken from dreams from various sources, including the players themselves. We asked Carla to look back and speak to her experience working with ICE almost a decade ago:
Read More2018 has been a banner year for ICE recordings, and especially for Tundra, the ensemble’s in-house record label. There are now nine titles in the label’s catalog, four of which came out this year, with many more on the way. As Tundra’s director, I’d like to offer a few thoughts about the label’s present and future.
Read MoreI caught up with Anna Thorvaldsdóttir in advance of her imminent CD release on the Sono Luminus label with ICE: Aequa.
Read MoreSuzanne Farrin’s dolce la morte is out today on Tundra Records! Composed for ICE and featuring countertenor Eric Jurenas, the performance is conducted by David Fulmer and follows an acclaimed run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Suzanne speaks about the piece and its history
Read MoreICE’s world premiere presentation last month of In Plain Air, our collaboration with Christ Church Philadelphia, was an amazing experience. We’d like to present composers Phyllis Chen and Nathan Davis’s own descriptions of the component pieces that made up the cycle, which were played continuously.
Read MoreIn March, ICE and the NYPL co-hosted a free OpenICE event which revisited Leonard Bernstein's 1973 Norton Lectures at Harvard, long regarded as a pinnacle of music education.
Read MoreAn important part of ICE's collaboration with UpBeat NYC, a wonderful youth music ensemble based in the Bronx, was the creation of a graphic score.
Read MoreIt's rare when ICE has an entire Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre preserved on DigitICE. But we have videos of all four pieces from Irish composer Ann Cleare's Portrait last month! Here they are, with Ann's informative notes on the program.
Read MoreComposer Anahita Abbasi writes about ...within the shifting grounds... for ICE and orchestra, which was premiered last weekend with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Christian Reif, conductor, at Davies Symphony Hall.
Read More"What does a producer do? First and foremost, a producer calls out takes in the session, and makes sure that all the material gets recorded at the highest level."
Jacob Greenberg writes about managing recording sessions this week for Suzanne Farrin's Dolce la Morte, and the creative collaboration involved in the producer's role.
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