The International Contemporary Ensemble presents an evening of exploring string works by members of the Iranian Female Composers Association. Ensemble musicians Josh Modney (violinist), Kyle Armbrust (violist), Wendy Richman (violist), and Michael Nicolas (cellist) will discuss each work with the composers, diving into compositional process and collaboration. RSVP above to receive YouTube link.
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Works include:
Bahar Royaee: Tombstone (2017)
Anahita Abbasi: Situation IV / Io E iO (2016, rev. 2017)*
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Veiled (arranged for viola and electronics, 2019)**
Rojin Sharafi: sandbox (2017)
Homa Samiei: Fate (2019)
*Commissioned by Marco Fusi, Dedicated to Andrew McIntosh.
**Commissioned by Amanda Gookin for cello and live electronics. Viola arrangement originally written for Kimia Hesabi.
About IFCA
The Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA) was established in 2017 by three female-identifying Iranian composers, Anahita Abbasi, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Aida Shirazi. IFCA’s mission is to support Iranian female composers throughout their careers and to inspire organizers and ensembles to commission female composers and engage with them for future collaborations. In 2017, Nourbakhsh started thinking of creating an association that builds a community between the first generation of active Iranian female composers, as she lacked a mentorship herself growing up in Iran. She started the work for the first concert to feature all Iranian female composers at National Sawdust and reached out to Anahita Abbasi and Aida Shirazi via social platforms. Their partnership grew and the three composers established IFCA together. IFCA currently has more than 40 composers as its members who live and work across the globe. Since 2017, IFCA’s music has been featured at numerous festivals and venues including the Direct Current festival in Washington, DC and Mostly Mozart Festival in Lincoln Center.
About TUES@7
“Tues@7” are regular opportunities to engage with members and collaborators of the International Contemporary Ensemble. Artists will reflect on past world premieres, pull back the curtain on upcoming works-in-process, and dig deeply into the DigitICE archive to see how collaborations, new works, and sound creations have blossomed over the past 19 years. We look forward to staying engaged in the virtual space through COVID-19 so that our audience and collaborators have a weekly destination for extraordinary new music.
Credits
We are grateful for the support of the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust in making this program possible.
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2020-21 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, 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, 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 ICEensemble.