We're always encouraged to look forward, but for Ensemble Evolution in 2024, we're gladly looking back! The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is planning this special iteration, called an Ensemble Evolution Alumni Celebration Concert to reflect on and celebrate the amazing relationships formed and extraordinary art created during the festivals since our move to The College of Performing Arts at The New School in 2020.

Ensemble Evolution (EVO) co-directors Fay Victor and Rebekah Heller curate a concert of works by EVO alumni, performed by members of the ICE community. 

This free concert has limited capacity! Please RSVP ASAP. We look forward to celebrating with you!

PROGRAM
Phoebe Bognár, (un)reasoning (2020)
Armond Dorsey, Longing to Keep Breathing 
Elijah J. Thomas, And Winter Fell…
Jaz Thomasian, Spark
Marcella Keating, What’s your favourite love song

ENSEMBLE EVOLUTION ALUMNI PERFORMERS
Sara Bouchard, voice
Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio, violin
Rocío Díaz de Cossío, cello
Shinya Lin, piano
Toni Mora, piano
Sadie Powers, bass
Jonathan Reisin, saxophone
Ben Rempel, percussion
Adrienne Schoenfeld, double bass
Murphy Severtson, accordion
Anjali Shinde, flute
Jaz Thomasian, percussion
Lulu West, guitar
Armond Dorsey, clarinet

ICE PERFORMERS
Alice Teyssier, voice and flute
Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute
David Byrd-Marrow, horn
Clara Warnaar, percussion
Levy Lorenzo, electronics and percussion
Cory Smythe, piano
Josh Modney, violin
Daniel Lippel, guitar

About ENSEMBLE EVOLUTION

Conceived by Claire Chase and Steven Schick, previously in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and re-imagined in partnership with the College of Performing Arts at The New School by Ross Karre and Rebekah Heller, Ensemble Evolution is a summer intensive that gives musicians the opportunity to create side-by-side with members of the International Contemporary Ensemble and renowned guest artists, engaging in a holistic approach to creative practice, building community, and imagining pathways forward for the future of collective music making. 

One hallmark of the program is the foundation of democratic principles that underpin its operation. Unlike many summer music intensives, Ensemble Evolution participants take key roles in shaping all elements of the program, including programming, rehearsing, and producing concerts.  The program culminates in a participant-driven day of performance. Additionally, Ensemble Evolution participants will explore the New School’s Arts Management and Entrepreneurship curriculum, and work alongside the Ensemble, New School faculty, and collaborators to conceive, workshop, rehearse, and premiere new works.

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE (ICE)
Now in its third decade, the International Contemporary Ensemble 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 in “a mission worth following” (I Care If You Listen).

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