The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described recently by the New York Times as “one of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music,” is a chamber group comprised of dynamic a versatile young performers dedicated to the music of our time. Through innovative programming, multimedia collaborations, commissions by young composers, and performing in nontraditional venues, ICE brings together new music and new audience. The winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, ICE will give over sixty concerts this season, and will be featured on new releases from the Naxos, Bridge, and New Focus labels. For its ISSUE Project Room debut, ICE proudly presents a program of new electro-acoustic works by three young composers whose work the ensemble is performing this season as part of ICE’s 21st Century Young Composers’ Project: New York-based composers Mario Diaz de Leon and Nathan Davis, and Greek composer Panayiotis Kokoras. All three composers will be on hand to run the electronic components of their works at the event. The 21st Century Young Composers Project is made possible from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
