Credit: Digitice
This event is part of Roulette’s 2025 series in honor of composer Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year. Earlier in 2025 Roulette honored Braxton at their annual Gala; The Music of Anthony Braxton is a four-part series throughout November that continues Roulette’s celebration of Braxton’s incomparable and ongoing contributions to creative music spanning more than half a century.
The International Contemporary Ensemble is most excited to be included in Roulette’s season-long celebration of the work of Anthony Braxton. The Ensemble has for many years regularly engaged in collaborations, performances, and public pedagogical workshops devoted to Braxton’s music—most recently in April 2025 at the Northwestern University New Music Conference.
The performance will feature works by Braxton and his former collaborator, composer-guitarist Mary Halvorson, for an ensemble of 10 performers. Both Halvorson and George Lewis, the Ensemble’s Artistic Director, have performed with Braxton, in two different generations, and a pre-concert “mutual interview” between Lewis and Halvorson will provide a unique insider perspective on Braxton’s legacy and the field of experimental music more generally.
PROGRAM
To be announced
PERFORMERS
International Contemporary Ensemble
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
Described as “America’s foremost new-music group” (The New Yorker), International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is dedicated to supporting living composers through commissioning, developing, and premiering new works. Now in its third decade, ICE has premiered over 1,000 works and plays a pivotal role in launching and shaping the careers of today’s most influential composers. Through its bold programming and innovative curation, ICE continues to redefine the possibilities of contemporary music.
ICE has brought its vision of a mosaic musical ecosystem to festivals and venues all over the world including Carnegie Hall, Maerzmusik/Berliner Festspiele, Warsaw Autumn, Miller Theatre Composer Portraits, Museum of Modern Art New York, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, HEAR NOW Los Angeles, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, NYU Skirball, Pioneer Works, Oberlin College, House of World Cultures, Ojai Music Festival, Peabody Conservatory, TIME:SPANS Festival, Big Ears Festival, Adelaide Festival, the Dutch National Opera, Cité de la Musique (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Japan Society.
CREDITS
The International Contemporary Ensemble’s performances and commissioning activities during the 2025-26 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, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Arlene and Larry Dunn Fund for Afrodiasporic Music, Fromm Music Foundation, Amphion Foundation, The Cheswatyr Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Siemens Musikstiftung, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and New York State Legislature. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for the International Contemporary Ensemble.