Ensemble Evolution is the International Contemporary Ensemble’s summer intensive designed to foster a holistic understanding of the artist as a global citizen in collaboration with The New School’s College of Performing Arts in New York City. Ensemble Evolution participants engage in music-making, community-building, and creative producing through workshops, conversations, and radical artistic collaborations with faculty and other participants. From June 26th to June 29th, the program offers unique and collaborative performance opportunities with musicians dedicated to transforming the way music is created and experienced.
This year is the first time the program is fully in-person at The New School, Arnhold Hall!
There will be an Ensemble Evolution Festival on June 26 and June 29, open to the public and via live-stream, in order to experience the work of many involved in Ensemble Evolution.
Closing Night on June 29th in Stiefel Hall, will feature a program of works led and curated in collaboration with faculty, participants, and Evolution Directors Fay Victor and Rebekah Heller. In alignment with the ethos of Ensemble Evolution, allowing participants to take the lead in programming and producing, the concert program will be announced the morning of the show.
Program performed by evo23 participants
Nicole Mitchell: Inescapable Spiral
Miguel Zazueta, vocalist
Juliana Gaona Villamizar, oboe
Ian McEdwards, clarinets (Bb and bass)
David Cortez, baritone saxophone
Camilla Caldwell, violin
Rocío Díaz de Cossío, cello
Devon Gates, bass
Kamilla Arku, piano
Murphy Severtson, accordion
Kenyon Duncan, percussion
Yoona Kim, ajaeng
George Lewis: Artificial Life 2007
Eli Berman, voice
Delfina Cheb Terrab, voice
Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio, violin
Teresa Diaz de Cossio, flute
Mariana Flores-Bucio, voice
Ryan Ghassemi, bassoon
Marcella Keating, trumpet
Connie Li, violin
Li-chin Li, sheng
Vartan Mailiantz, violin
Carlos Pascual Cippelletti, piano
Brittany Green: Intersections
Francisco del Pino, guitar
Wesley Hornpetrie, cello
Clae Lu, chinese zither
Natalia Merlano Gomez, voice
Varun Rangaswamy, bassoon
Diyora Tursunova, piano
Lulu West: Hey it’s me, your mom, hope you’re doing well
Michele Cheng, performer
Isuel Kim, voice/piano
Mac Waters, viola
Shasha Chen: Relation
Alexandra Andreeva, voice
Sarah Marie Bugeja, voice
Shasha Chen, performer/composer
Noah Franche-Nolan, piano
Lulu West, guitar
Wenbin Lyu: Duke’s Fantasy
Wenbin Lyu, guitar/composer
Jonathan Reisin, saxophone
Jonathan Yuan, flute
Yifeng Yuan, voice
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
With a commitment to cultivating a more curious and engaged society through music, the International Contemporary Ensemble – as a commissioner and performer at the highest level – amplifies creators whose work propels and challenges how music is made and experienced. The Ensemble’s 35 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Works by emerging composers have anchored the Ensemble’s programming since its founding in 2001, and the group’s recordings and digital platforms highlight the many voices that weave music’s present.
Described as “America’s foremost new-music group” (The New Yorker), the Ensemble has become a leading force in new music throughout the last 20 years, having premiered over 1,000 works and having been a vehicle for the workshop and performance of thousands of works by student composers across the U.S. The Ensemble’s composer-collaborators—many who were unknown at the time of their first Ensemble collaboration—have fundamentally shaped its creative ethos and have continued to highly visible and influential careers, including MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey; long-time Ensemble collaborator, founding member, and 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner Du Yun; and the Ensemble’s founder, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and first-ever flutist to win Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Prize, Claire Chase.
CREDITS
The International Contemporary Ensemble’s performances and commissioning activities during the 2022-23 concert season are made possible by the generous support of many individuals as well as the Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., MAP Fund, Mid Atlantic Arts, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, The Cheswatyr Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, New Music USA’s New Music Organizational Development Fund, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 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 Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for the International Contemporary Ensemble.