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), honouring 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.
Joining George Lewis, Douglas T. Ewart and our European guest artists, GIOfest welcomes four key members of the ICE from New York:
Fay Victor, voice
Jonathan Finalyson, trumpet
Clara Warnaar, percussion
Kyle Armbrust, viola