Our “Call For__” program (formerly called “ICEcommons Artists-in-Residence'') has become a broader invitation to collaborate with the Ensemble, open to creators from any discipline. Artists receive the support of Ensemble musicians, rehearsal time, video and audio documentation, marketing support, and a paid commission, all alongside performances of their pieces created with the Ensemble.
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Beginning in September 2020, the TUES@7 series was a weekly destination to experience extraordinary new music together with Ensemble members, collaborators, and audience members from around the world. Now, TUES@7 is a platform where we re-broadcast our live shows followed by Zoom lobbies so we can still connect with one another.
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Our yearly activities include premiering works by artists in our “Call For ____” program, workshopping with artist-collaborators, and being presented on the world’s stages. Click here for our calendar of events.

Ensemble Evolution is a tuition-free two-week summer music program in partnership with The New School’s College of Performing Arts (CoPA) taking place every June where early-career performers and performer-composers collaborate with and learn from a faculty of established professionals, including Ensemble musicians and renowned guest artists.
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Digitice is an essential resource for amplifying the reach of composers’ and performers’ work. It contains an archive of more than 750 high-definition videos of full performances and has become a mainstay of support for collaborators who rely on documentation of International Contemporary Ensemble performances in representing their work.
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Our Virtual Town Hall Meetings are for the contemporary music community to focus on current affairs that affect our field, and share knowledge and initiatives. These meetings advance the conversation on the sustainability and future of our constantly changing musical landscape, featuring panelists from within and outside the field of new music.
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Hosted by the Ensemble with Dr. Naomi André, in partnership with FringeArts and Oper Omaha, the first Afro-Diasporic Opera Forum took place in May 2021. The Forum was a three-day series of events produced by colleagues and collaborators of the Ensemble to celebrate, share, and reflect on the operas that have had a major impact on the organization and collaborators. We plan toco-host Afro-Diasporic Opera Forums in the future. Learn more about AOF 2021 here.

iceCOMMONS was our free, crowdsourced, public platform for discovering new composers through their works. The database connected composers and performers to spark new collaborations and counteracted traditional barriers faced by composers underrepresented in the contemporary music field—specifically women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, transgender and gender non-binary, self-taught, and cross-genre artists—as well as individuals from isolated geographic areas.

*As of late 2020, this database has been under construction. We will post updates about this platform on our homepage. Stay tuned! In the meantime, you can learn more about the history of iceCOMMONS and the iceCOMMONS Artists-in-Residence program (now called the “Call For ____” program) here.

Openice provides unrestricted access to new music. This initiative aims to share essential elements of the Ensemble’s working process—creation, collaboration, and performance—with a wider audience through free concert and activity programming. Openice engages new audiences in open workshops, conversations with artists, and performances in alternative venues. The initiative has yielded 265 live concerts, including world premiere performances of 107 newly commissioned works, as well as high-definition documentation at our digital concert hall, Digitice. With lead support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Openice is now a core part of every facet of our programming, always aiming to reduce barriers to joining the new music community.

icelab was a groundbreaking effort in creating a new model for in-house commissioning, yielded 75 new works by 24 composers which have been performed around the world in 285 concerts in spaces ranging from neighborhood venues to major concert halls and festivals. icelab participants have continued onward to highly visible and influential composition careers, including Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun (Brooklyn, NY), MacArthur Foundation Fellow Tyshawn Sorey (Brooklyn, NY), Nordic Council Music Prize winner Anna Thorvaldsdottir (Reykjavik, Iceland, and London, UK); and Rome Prize winner Suzanne Farrin (New York, NY). Learn more about icelab here.