Composing While Black: a concert by International Contemporary Ensemble
International Contemporary Ensemble will be at University of California Irvine and University of California Riverside for a residency involving workshops, panels, and a performance at UC Irvine that will be open to the public. This program will celebrate the wide-ranging creative visions of Black composers, performed by virtuoso musicians from one of today’s most renowned contemporary music ensembles, and including a pre-concert talk with the artists.
Programme:
the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween by Elaine Mitchener
Full programme tbc
Performers:
Fay Victor, voice
Wendy Richman, viola
Cory Smythe, piano
Josh Rubin, clarinet
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.
www.iceorg.org
More info and tickets:
www.arts.uci.edu