International Contemporary Ensemble Performs Tyshawn Sorey Miller Theater Composer Portrait With JACK Quartet

On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 8:00pm, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) joins the JACK Quartet for a Miller Theatre Composer Portrait of composer Tyshawn Sorey.

Sorey, a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has a wide-ranging creative practice, embracing the roles of composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, scholar, and educator. His Miller Theatre Composer Portrait features two new works, written for ICE and JACK, ensembles with which Sorey has close ties. The program includes the world premiere of Autoschediasms for Creative Chamber Orchestra (2019), commissioned by Miller Theatre, and the New York premiere of ...Changes (2018), as well as Sorey's Violin and Glockenspiel, in Memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams (2018); Bertha's Lair (2016); and Ornations (2014).

Program Information
Tyshawn Sorey Composer Portrait
Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 8pm
Miller Theatre | 2960 Broadway | New York, NY
Tickets: $20-30
Link: https://www.millertheatre.com/events/tyshawn-sorey

Program:
Tyshawn Sorey: Autoschediasms for Creative Chamber Orchestra (2019) [World Premiere, Miller Theatre Commission]
Tyshawn Sorey: ...Changes (2018) [New York Premiere]
Tyshawn Sorey: Violin and Glockenspiel, in Memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams (2018)
Tyshawn Sorey: Bertha's Lair (2016)
Tyshawn Sorey: Ornations (2014)

Performers:
Tyshawn Sorey, composer
JACK Quartet
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Newark-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, effortless mastery and memorization of highly complex scores, and an extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation in his work. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles, as well as artists such as John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Marilyn Crispell, George Lewis, Claire Chase, Steve Coleman, Steve Lehman, Robyn Schulkowsky, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, and Myra Melford, among many others.

Sorey has received support for his creative projects from The Jerome Foundation, The Shifting Foundation, and Van Lier Fellowship and was a 2015 recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Award. The Spektral Quartet, Ojai Music Festival, and International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) have commissioned his works. As a percussionist and resident composer, he collaborates regularly with ICE. As a leader, he has released six critically acclaimed recordings that feature his work, including his latest Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings, 2017).

Sorey received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition in 2017 from Columbia University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and Creative Music at Wesleyan University, where he received his Masters in Composition in 2011. Learn more at https://tyshawnsorey.com/.

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is an artist collective that is transforming the way music is created and experienced. As performer, curator, and educator, ICE explores how new music intersects with communities across the world. The ensemble's 35 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Works by emerging composers have anchored ICE's programming since its founding in 2001, and the group's recordings and digital platforms highlight the many voices that weave music's present.

A recipient of the American Music Center's Trailblazer Award and the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, ICE was also named the 2014 Musical America Ensemble of the Year. The group currently serves as artists-in-residence at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' Mostly Mozart Festival, and previously led a five-year residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. ICE was featured at the Ojai Music Festival from 2015 to 2017, and at recent festivals abroad such as gmem-CNCM-marseille and Vértice at Cultura UNAM, Mexico City. Other performance stages have included the Park Avenue Armory, The Stone, ice floes at Greenland's Diskotek Sessions, and boats on the Amazon River.

New initiatives include OpenICE, made possible with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which offers free concerts and related programming wherever ICE performs, and enables a working process with composers to unfold in public settings. DigitICE, a free online library of over 350 streaming videos, catalogues the ensemble's performances. ICE's First Page program is a commissioning consortium that fosters close collaborations between performers, composers, and listeners as new music is developed. EntICE, a side-by-side education program, places ICE musicians within youth orchestras as they premiere new commissioned works together; inaugural EntICE partners include Youth Orchestra Los Angeles and The People's Music School in Chicago. Summer activities include Ensemble Evolution at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, in which young professionals perform with ICE and attend workshops on topics from interpretation to concert production. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE. Read more at www.iceorg.org.

A cornerstone of Miller's programming, these evening-length musical profiles explore the work of a single composer in depth, offering contemporary composers and performers a space to explore, experiment, and make significant contributions to the field. For more than a decade, Miller's flagship series has exposed audiences to the boundary-breaking music of today. This season, Miller Theatre offers an in-depth look at six composers in these evening-length immersions, including the chance to hear directly from the composers during onstage discussions.