ICE is thrilled to return to the gorgeous Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, for the second annual installment of Ensemble Evolution.
Ensemble Evolution explores a full range of ensemble playing. Participants will perform established repertoire—featured this summer will be Olivier Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux Étoiles and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In the Light of Air—along with world premieres by composers George Lewis, Vivian Fung, Sabrina Schroeder, and Peter Evans.
Over the course of the residency, participants will take over the responsibility for programming, rehearsing, and producing the concerts, resulting in a completely participant-driven day long festival at the culmination of the program.
WEEK TWO EVENTS:
Tuesday, June 26, 7:30 PM
Rolston Recital Hall
PETER EVANS, MATANA ROBERTS, MAZZ SWIFT, AIYUN HUANG, CORY SMYTHE, AND JENNIFER CURTIS
Friday, June 29, 7:30 PM
Rolston Recital Hall
Pre-Concert talk with Claire Chase, George Lewis, and selected participants on "Community Building through Musical Action" at 6:30 p.m. in the Bentley Chamber Music Studio.
GEORGE LEWIS: WORLD PREMIERE
Featuring Ensemble Evolution participants and faculty.
Saturday, June 30, 2:00 PM
Rolston Recital Hall
Pre-concert talk with Claire Chase, Steven Schick, and selected faculty at 6:45 p.m.
PREMIERES BY GEORGE LEWIS, PETER EVANS, MATANA ROBERTS, CORY SMYTHE, AND MAZZ SWIFT
The works in this concert are created specifically for the musical personalities and instrumentation of the Ensemble Evolution residency.
ICE’s 2017-18 performances and commissioning activities are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Pacific Harmony Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Casement Fund, BMI Foundation, 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 Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.