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Feb
1
2015

International Contemporary Ensemble

When: Sunday, February 1, 2015
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT

Where: Lutkin Memorial Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: All audiences free

Contact: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall   (847) 467-4000

Group: Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

Presented by the Institute for New Music

David Bowlin, violin; Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello; Jacob Greenberg, piano; James Austin Smith, oboe; Rebekah Heller, bassoon

The Financial Times calls the International Contemporary Ensemble “bracing, illuminating, reassuring.” Since its founding in 2001, ICE has premiered over 500 compositions, the majority of them new works by emerging composers. The ensemble has received the American Music Center’s Trailblazer Award, the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming, and Musical America Worldwide’s Ensemble of the Year award in 2013.

György Kurtág, Ligatura for Bálint Varga

Dai Fujikura, Calling

Kaija Saariaho, Tocar

Sir Harrison Birtwistle, An Interrupted Endless Melody

Elliott Carter, Epigrams (Chicago premiere)

Admission is free.

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