Members of the International Contemporary Ensemble join composer Pamela Z in Florida State University’s celebration of new music.
This concert, one of six associated with the 20th Biennial Festival of New Music, will feature compositions and performances by the Ensemble and Pamela Z, including The Unraveling for string quartet, voice, and electronics (feat. Pamela Z and the Burgin String Quartet, the College of Music’s resident student quartet), and Four Movements for solo cello and electronics (feat. Pamela Z with Professor of Cello Gregory Sauer). Works by Brittany J. Green, Mario Diaz de Leon, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir will also be performed by members of the Ensemble and FSU Faculty/Students.
Members of the Ensemble will also be reading through FSU composer works on February 3rd.
Tickets for this event are $10 general admission and may be purchased online at tickets.music.fsu.edu.
The Florida Board of Governors and Florida State University expect masks to be worn by all individuals in all FSU facilities. Dates, locations and times are subject to change based on University and CDC guidelines regarding COVID-19.
Program
Mario Diaz de Leon: Mysterium (2016)
Brittany J. Green: Intersections (2017)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Sequences (2015)
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Firing Squad (2018)
Pamela Z: Twenty Answers (2007)
Pamela Z
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, the Bang on a Can All Stars, Ethel, and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Her interdisciplinary performance works have been presented at venues including The Kitchen (NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), REDCAT (LA), and MCA (Chicago), and her installations have been presented at such exhibition spaces as the Whitney (NY), the Diözesanmuseum (Cologne), and the Krannert (IL). Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can (New York), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Dak’Art (Sénégal) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal, Germany). She’s a recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize, United States Artists, a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency, the Guggenheim, the Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Herb Alpert Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the NEA Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. www.pamelaz.com
From the Ensemble
Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute
Michelle Farah, oboe
Joshua Nathan Rubin, clarinet
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
Ross Karre, electronics
PERFORMER BIOS
Flutist Isabel Lepanto Gleicher has been called “excellent” by The New York Times and a “rising talent and stand out performer in the new music scene” by Miller Theatre. In 2018, she was featured in a solo recital on Miller Theatre’s Pop Up series. Isabel is an artist member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wild Up, Ensemble Echappe, the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, and is a founding member of Song Sessions Collective. She has had the opportunity to premiere works by Steve Reich, Missy Mazzoli, Augusta Read Thomas, and Dai Fujikura among others. https://isabellepantogleicher.com/
Rebekah Heller's work aims to expand the sonic possibilities of her instrument — both in her solo work and through a deep collaborative practice. Called "an impressive solo bassoonist" by The New Yorker, she is dedicated to exploration, experimentation, and the democratization of sound. As bassoonist of the International Contemporary Ensemble since 2008, Rebekah has premiered hundreds of groundbreaking new works worldwide. She has two solo albums of music written for and with her, and in 2018, Rebekah made her solo debut with the New York Philharmonic. She teaches and lectures at the Mannes School of Music, where she is Co-Chair of the Wind Department. Rebekah lives in Manhattan. http://www.rebekahheller.com/
Clarinetist Joshua Nathan Rubin is a founding member, former Artistic Director, and current board member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (IntCE). The New York Times has praised him as, "incapable of playing an inexpressive note." Joshua developed Luigi, management software that is available to ensembles and other organizations who value transparency and collective management. He served on the faculty of IntCE's Ensemble Evolution program from 2016-2021 and at the soundSCAPE festival in Italy in 2022. Joshua holds degrees in Biology and Clarinet from Oberlin College and Conservatory, a Master's degree from the Mannes School of Music, and he lives in Los Angeles.
Oboist Michelle Farah is a dedicated orchestral and chamber musician. In addition to performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera, American Ballet Theatre, New Jersey Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Knights, A Far Cry, International Contemporary Ensemble, and the New York Philharmonic, her solo playing has been described as "uniformly excellent" by the New York Times. Michelle is a member of Wavefield Ensemble, a musical collective committed to the adventurous programming of contemporary repertoire.
Erin Rogers is a Canadian-American saxophonist and composer. She is Co-Artistic director of NYC-based ensembles thingNY, Popebama, New Thread Quartet, Hypercube and a core member of LA-based WildUp. Her music has been performed worldwide at the Prototype, Ecstatic, and MATA Festivals, Celebrity Series (Boston), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), and NYmusikk Bergen (Norway). Rogers is a D’Addario Woodwinds and Conn-Selmer artist, and serves on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Performance Program. Rogers has recorded two solo albums for Relative Pitch Records. Erinmrogers.com
Ross Karre (b. 1983 in Battle Creek, MI) is a percussionist, filmmaker, and producer based in New York City. After completing his Doctorate in Music at UCSD with Steven Schick, Ross formalized his visual studies with a Master of Fine Arts from UCSD. He is a percussionist and artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and has performed regularly with red fish blue fish, Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), and Yarn/Wire (NYC). His projection design work has been presented all over the world in prestigious venues such as the BBC Scotland, the Park Avenue Armory, the Kennedy Center, and the National Gallery of Art. His most recent release, 10.67 Cycles, features the music of Ash Fure and Pauline Oliveros and is available on Bandcamp.
CREDITS
The International Contemporary Ensemble’s performances and commissioning activities during the 2021-22 concert season are made possible by the generous support of our board of directors and many individuals as well as The Andrew W. 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 Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Casement Fund, 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. The International Contemporary Ensemble was the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology from 2018 - 2021. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for the International Contemporary Ensemble.