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Pre-Concert Conversation with the Artists in Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 pm
The International Contemporary Ensemble returns to the Library with a concert of new and recent works by vibrant composers on the scene, including Thorvaldsdottir, Fure, and Farrin, whose new commission from the Library and ICE will receive its regional premiere. Farrin is also an accomplished ondist, and she will perform alongside the musicians of ICE in several works featuring the ondes Martenot—a fantastic early electronic cousin of the Theremin—including her own new work and a work for ondes Martenot and piano by Olivier Messiaen, put together posthumously by his widow Yvonne Loriod. The program finishes with Gubaidulina’s classic ensemble work from 1971, Concordanza.
PERFORMERS
Alice Teyssier, flute
James Austin Smith, oboe
Campbell MacDonald, clarinet
Ryan Muncy, saxophone
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
David Byrd-Marrow, horn
Nathan Davis, percussion
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Suzanne Farrin, ondes martenot
Jennifer Curtis, violin
Josh Modney, violin
Wendy Richman, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello
Randall Zigler, bass
Nicholas DeMaison, conductor
PROGRAM
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Sequences
Suzanne Farrin: New Work (co-commissioned by The Library of Congress and the International Contemporary Ensemble)
Suzanne Farrin: Hypsersea
Ashley Fure: Something to Hunt
Olivier Messiaen/Yvonne Loriod: Feuillets inédits
Sofia Gubaidulina: Concordanza
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2019-20 concert season are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Pacific Harmony Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, mediaThe foundation inc., The 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 Agency. The International Contemporary Ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.