The ICE wind instruments visit our very own Campbell Macdonald's home of Fort Wayne for the first time, with an OpenICE concert featuring a new work by Ft. Wayne native Brooks Fredrickson. Campbell will play Liza Lim's stunning Sonorous Body for solo clarinet, and ICE performs works by many of our favorite collaborators.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir (b. 1977): Sequences (2016) for bass flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone and bassoon
Mike Lormand (b. 1979): Solo Improvisation
Walter Zimmermann (b. 1949): Paradoxes of Love (1987) for soprano and soprano saxophone
Jason Eckardt (b. 1971): A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, book 2: "Wild Ginger" (2014) for bassoon
Brooks Frederickson (b. 1987): Coarse-Grain (2016) for flute, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon and trombone (world premiere)
Liza Lim (b. 1966): Sonorous Body (2008) for solo clarinet
Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016): Earth Ears: A Sonic Ritual (1989) for unspecified instrumentation
Alice Teyssier, flutes and voice
Campbell Macdonald, clarinets
Ryan Muncy, saxophone
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
Michael Lormand, trombone
ICE’s 2016-17 performances and commissioning activities are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, French American Cultural Exchange (FACE Foundation), the A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, New Music USA, The Amphion Foundation, The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Concinnity Fund, The Casement Fund, the BMI Foundation, the Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research at the Eastman School of Music, a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.