Name: Ensemble Evolution Fest: Opening Night
Start: 2023-06-26T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Arnhold Hall

Ensemble Evolution Fest: Opening Night

The International Contemporary Ensemble is an artist collective that is transforming the way music is created and experienced. As performer, curator, and educator, the Ensemble explores how new music intersects with communities across the world. The Ensemble’s 36 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Works by emerging composers have anchored the Ensemble's programming since its founding in 2001, and the group’s recordings and digital platforms highlight the many voices that weave music’s present.

International Contemporary Ensemble

New Works by Sandra Kluge and Cleo Reed; works by Shara Lunon and Roscoe Mitchell; Improvisation Sets

Arnhold Hall

Ensemble Evolution is the International Contemporary Ensemble’s summer intensive designed to foster a holistic understanding of the artist as a global citizen in collaboration with The New School’s College of Performing Arts in New York City. Ensemble Evolution participants engage in music-making, community-building, and creative producing through workshops, conversations, and radical artistic collaborations with faculty and other participants. From June 26th to June 29th, the program offers unique and collaborative performance opportunities with musicians dedicated to transforming the way music is created and experienced.This year is the first time the program is fully in-person at The New School, Arnhold Hall! There will be an Ensemble Evolution Festival on June 26 and June 29, open [free] to the public, in order to experience the work of all involved in Ensemble Evolution.<h3>Opening Night on June 26th features: a world premiere by Sandra Kluge and a Work in Progress Showing of Cleo Reed’s new work, both commissioned by the Ensemble. Plus performances by Ensemble Evolution faculty members including improvisation sets and works by Shara Lunon, and Roscoe Mitchell. </h3>

<h1>PROGRAM &amp; PERFORMERS</h1>Fay Victor &amp; Rebekah Heller: Improv DuoSandra Kluge: Anything = Everything (World Premiere)*Sandra Kluge, tap percussionFay Victor, voiceRebekah Heller, bassoonLesley Mok, drumset &amp; percussionShara Lunon, Lesley Mok, Lester St. Louis, eddy kwon: Improv Set Cleo Reed: Reeding Room: The Early Oeuvre (Work in Progress Showing)*Alice Teyssier, voice &amp; fluteRebekah Heller, bassoonNathan Davis, percussion— INTERMISSION — Shara Lunon: Samples No. 1: Hard ConversationsShara Lunon, voiceAlice Teyssier, fluteeddy kwon, violinWendy Richman, violaDan Lippel, guitarSandra Kluge: Anything = Everything — Part IIRoscoe Mitchell: Cards for ICE Shara Lunon, voiceAlice Teyssier, fluteeddy kwon, violinWendy Richman, violaLester St. Louis, celloDan Lippel, guitarLesley Mok, drumset

<h1>About Cleo Reed</h1>Cleo Reed is a sound composer, performer, and multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Recently, they developed software instruments for Jon Batiste’s “American Symphony” at Carnegie Hall. Their debut album project, “Root Cause,” is out now and has received support from Bandcamp, Vinyl Me Please, Pitchfork, and OkayPlayer, amongst others. In addition to the release, Cleo presented “Root Cause” as a self-directed performance art piece titled “Black American Circus” as a part of BRIC’s Artist-In-Residence program. Cleo is also a recipient of the 2022 NYC Women’s Fund for Media Music and Theatre, a fellow as a part of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Jazz is NOW: Curatorial Fellowship, and a selected composer as a part of the International Contemporary Ensemble’s “Call For ____” Commission Program. Cleo is an alumni of Harlem School of The Arts and a graduate of Berklee College of Music. At 19, Cleo Reed named themselves after Cleophus, their great-grandmother and a fellow Aquarius. Whether underground or academic, experimental or popular, they express musicianship guided by their radiance, femininity, and cyclical traumas.

<h1>About Sandra Kluge</h1>Sandra Kluge is a Tap Percussionist born in Bremen (Germany), based in Brooklyn (NY), and performing and teaching internationally. She writes, records, and performs her own original music, in which Tap is the exclusive percussive instrument, both solo and with a band. Sandra is deconstructing the classic Tap vocabulary in order to be a full band member, rather than just the cherry on top.Her performance highlights include Thomas Marek's show NOLA, the tap ahead festival, Swiss Tap Days, Düsseldorf Photo Weekend, Symphony Space, LaGuardia PAC, Judson Church, Piano's, The Duke on 42nd St, Basilica Hudson, and many more.Sandra has been invited to teach at renowned facilities such as tanzhaus nrw, tap club Cologne, and Soundspace Philadelphia, and to be a teaching artist in residence at Thomas Marek's Studio Footprints. She is currently on faculty at the American Tap Dance Foundation and Mark Morris Dance Center. In addition, Sandra teaches private lessons in person and virtually, working with students from around the world.Her work has been featured on the Tap Love Tour Podcast, German Tap Magazine, Dance Advantage, Dance Writer Australia, and Vocalo Radio.Sandra is the only Tap Percussionist to be an alumna of the Art Omi Music Fellowship Program and has received a commission from the International Contemporary Ensemble to create a new collaborative work in 2022/23.She was first introduced to Tap at the age of 10 by her Mom. In the following years, she studied with greats such as Barbara Duffy, Sebastian Weber, Pia Neises, Derick Grant, and Heather Cornell, to only name a few, as well as forming a deep relationship with the art form through endless hours of historic video footage and daily self-study. She has been part of Tap City's Pre-Professional Program twice, once with Michelle Dorrance, and once with Sarah Petronio, and graduated from Daniel Luka's tap apprenticeship S.O.N.T.I. with magna cum laude.

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