International Contemporary Ensemble And Yarn/Wire Perform Wang Lu Composer Portrait At Miller Theatre

On Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 8:00pm, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) joins Yarn/Wire for a Miller Theatre Composer Portrait of composer and pianist Wang Lu.

Brought up in a musical family with strong Chinese opera and folk music traditions, Wang Lu's works reflect a natural identification with those influences, through the prism of contemporary instrumental techniques and new sonic possibilities. Musicians of ICE and Yarn/Wire, both long-standing champions of Wang Lu, perform the world premiere of Lu's A-PPA-Aratus, co-commissioned by Miller Theatre the Koussevitsky Music Foundation, as well as her Childhood Amnesia (2017), Rates of Extinction (2016), Urban Inventory (2015), and Siren Song (2008).

On Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 6:00pm at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts's Bruno Walter Auditorium, ICE presents a free interactive concert of Wang Lu's works and will collect audience responses. RSVPs are encouraged at http://bit.ly/2HmLmlA.

Program Information
Wang Lu Composer Portrait
Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 8pm
Miller Theatre | 2960 Broadway | New York, NY
Tickets: $20-30
Link: https://www.millertheatre.com/events/wang-lu

Program:
Wang Lu: A-PPA-Aratus (2019) [World Premiere, Miller Theatre co-commission with the Koussevitsky Music Foundation]
Wang Lu: Childhood Amnesia (2017)
Wang Lu: Rates of Extinction (2016)
Wang Lu: Urban Inventory (2015)
Wang Lu: Siren Song (2008)

Performers:
Wang Lu, composer
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Yarn/Wire

Collecting Wang Lu At The New York Public Library
Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 6pm
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The Bruno Walter Auditorium | 111 Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY
Tickets: Free, but RSVP suggested.
Link: http://bit.ly/2HmLmlA

Composer and pianist Wang Lu was born in Xi'an, the ancient capital of China. Being brought up in a musical family with strong Chinese opera and folk music traditions, her works reflect a very natural identification with those influences, through the prism of contemporary instrumental techniques and new sonic possibilities.

Since 2015, Wang Lu is an Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University, where she teaches composition and theory. She is the Spring 2019 Berlin Prize Fellow in composition at the American Academy in Berlin, and was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. She won the first prize at Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne's Young Composers Forum in 2010 and shared the Tactus International Young Composers Orchestra Forum Award in 2008, resulting in multiple performances with the Orchestre National de Lille. She was selected for a Tremplin commission by IRCAM/Ensemble Intercontemporain in 2010, as well as a commission to write for the Ensemble Modern in 2012 as part of its International Composition Seminar, and has also received two ASCAP Morton Gould awards. Her orchestral work Scenes from the Bosco Sacro was selected for the 2014 New York Philharmonic Biennial New Music Readings.

Wang Lu's works for a variety of Western and Chinese ensembles and orchestras have been performed internationally, by ensembles including the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Alarm Will Sound, Minnesota Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Orchestre National de Lille, Holland Symfonia, Shanghai National Chinese Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Musiques Nouvelles (Belgium), Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montreal), Phoenix Ensemble (Basel), Beijing New Music Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Argento, Momenta Quartet, Columbia University Jazz Band, Janus Trio, So Percussion, Ensemble Pamplemousse and counter(induction, among others.

She has participated in festivals such as the Cresc Biennale for New Music (2013), Gaudeamus Music Week (2010 finalist), Tanglewood Music Center (2009), Cabrillo Music Festival (2010), Pacific Music Festival (2008), Takefu International Music Festival (2010), Centre Acanthes (2007), Bowling Green New Music Festival (2007), and the Beijing Modern (2004).

She received her doctoral degree in composition at Columbia University in 2012, after graduating with highest honors from the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music in 2005. Her composition teachers have included Fred Lerdahl, Tristan Murail, George Lewis, and Chou Wen-chung. Read more at www.wanglucomposer.com.

About the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
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.

About Miller Theatre Composer Portrait Series
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, we offer an in-depth look at six composers in these evening-length immersions, including the chance to hear directly from the composers during onstage discussions.

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