Luna Composition Lab is “changing the playing field” (The New Yorker) by providing mentorship, performance opportunities, resources, and partnerships for young female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers. Founded in 2016 by composers Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid, Luna Lab aims to achieve a broad, lasting, and positive impact in the field of music by empowering and emboldening the next generation of musicians and creative leaders.
The International Contemporary Ensemble is excited to participate as Luna Composition Lab’s 2024–25 Ensemble in Residence. Members of the International Contemporary Ensemble have worked with fellows throughout the year to workshop their new pieces. The world premieres of these works, alongside works by Luna Lab mentor composers Han Lash, Nkeiru Okoye, Angélica Negrón, and Mari Esabel Valverde, will be performed in the Resnick Education Wing at Carnegie Hall.
PROGRAM
Emilie Wolff: Why Dance (2025, World Premiere)
*Han Lash: Start (2018)
Danity Pike: just like the dolls (2025, World Premiere)
*Mari Esabel Valverde
Prélude en la bémol (2015)
his eyes were in the stars (2009)
Snøen (2009)
Zoe Verduin: Joshua Tree (2025, World Premiere)
Brannon Warn-Johnston: Stages of Inspiration (2025, World Premiere)
*Nkeiru Okoye: Breaking Bread (2022)
Sam Pichardo: Of it all (2025, World Premiere)
*Angélica Negron: Hush (2012)
Mia Turakhia: Beneath Dying Skies (2025, World Premiere)
* Luna Lab Mentor pieces, all other pieces Luna Lab 2025 Fellow pieces
PERFORMERS
Alice Teyssier, flute
Erika Dohi, piano
Clara Warnaar, percussion
Kal Sugatski, viola
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
Now in its third decade, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is a multidisciplinary collective of musicians, digital media artists, producers, and educators committed to building and innovating collaborative environments in order to inspire audiences to reimagine how they experience contemporary music and sound. The Ensemble creates a mosaic musical ecosystem as “America’s foremost new-music group” (The New Yorker), honoring the diversity of human experience and expression by commissioning, developing, recording, and performing the works of living artists. Co-founded in 2001 by flutist and MacArthur “genius” Fellow Claire Chase, the Ensemble has premiered over 1,000 works. The Ensemble has given performances at Warsaw Autumn, TIME:SPANS, Berliner Festspiele, HEAR NOW Los Angeles, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, Ojai Music Festival, and Big Ears Festival as well as in venues such as the Dutch National Opera, Cité de la Musique (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Japan Society, Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center, Fridman Gallery, Chelsea Factory, NYU Skirball and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
CREDITS
The International Contemporary Ensemble’s performances and commissioning activities during the 2024-25 concert season are made possible by the generous support of our board of directors, many individuals, as well as the Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Arlene and Larry Dunn Fund for Afrodiasporic Music, Fromm Music Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Cheswatyr Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Siemens Musikstiftung, New Music USA, 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.