ICE performs several 15 minute concerts in the plaza in front of the New York Library for the Performing Arts, including this premiere performance of Mikel Kuehn's Entanglements for guitar and harp, with Nuiko Wadden.
Hearst Plaza on the north side of Lincoln Center
Seven of the world's foremost composers are composing fifteen-minute musical responses to Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, an iconic sacred work of the German Baroque consisting of seven cantatas. The Crossing will perform the new works in repertory with Buxtehude's 17th-century work with two leading ensembles in their respective fields of performance: Quicksilver Baroque and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Seven Responses will challenge artists and audiences alike to explore our relative distance from, or closeness to, music across centuries, cultures, and continents. The project will be presented over two evenings, alternating between old and new works throughout each evening. Each composer has been invited to collaborate with an author of their choice, or to create their own libretto - those will include the words of Icelandic poet Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, American poet Paul Kane, the words of St. Clare of Assisi, and Danish poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen.
Presenting a lecture on music for guitar and electronics at the Guitar Foundation of America convention in Denver, CO.
An encore performance of Tyshawn Sorey's arrangements of music associated with Josephine Baker, featuring soprano Julia Bullock, at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse.
Several concerts including the premiere of Tyshawn Sorey's arrangement of songs associated with Josephine Baker for voice, guitar, flute, bassoon, sax, piano and drums, Carla Kihlstedt's genre straddling At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire, a program of Saariaho chamber works, and an early morning, mountainside performance of text based scores by Pauline Oliveros.
Returning to the Aspekte Festival in Salzburg, ICE teams with Ensemble Itineraire for a unique collaboration. Featuring a program of pieces that continues and responds to European musical traditions, ICE performs a new piece by Lu Wang (commissioned by ICE), as well as works by Steve Lehman, Anthony Cheung and Tristan Murail. Ensemble Itineraire will join ICE for a new piece written for both ensembles by Christopher Trapani, the recent winner of the 2016 Rome Prize.
"Untempered" explores music by composers who play in the nooks and crannies of musical tuning systems. Integrating phenomenon such as beatings and pitch discrepancies inherent in instrument design, composers Larry Polansky, Peter Adriaansz, and Karola Obermueller pose an outsider lineage in modern composition, opening our awareness of the acoustic realities and necessities of music.
Solo and duo performances of premieres of selected Bagatelles with pianist Brian Marsella as part of John Zorn's weekly Bagatelles series @The Stone in New York
Matyas Wettl: Unusual for voice, guitar, and live processing
Eliza Bagg, soprano
MATA Festival
Dixon Place
Solo concert on counter(induction series x+n
pairing works for guitar, guitar and electronics with the electronic music of Éliane Radigue
curated by c(i co-director Kyle Bartlett