IYCA Ticino
July 5-24, 2024
Switzerland
An international gathering for young composers from all over the world, an intense and in-depth Academy is taking place in Ticino to exchange, learn, create, and premiere new works specially written for the occasion by today's youngest generation of talents for the most acclaimed champions of contemporary music.
The 2024 ensembles in residence:
JACK String quartet
International Contemporary Ensemble
the 2024 composition professor:
George Lewis
Brigitta Muntendorf
Oscar Bianchi
the 2024 conducting professor: Peter Rundel
APPLY BY JANUARY 31ST!
PERFORMERS
Alice Teyssier, flute/voice
Levy Lorenzo, percussion
Michael Lormand, trombone
Campbell MacDonald, clarinet
Events:
07 July 2024 — Opening concert 20:00 - Chiesa di Comologno (Onsernone Valley)
9 July 2024 — Composing while Black, visions for a prosperous future: round table and performance with Harald Kisiedu, George Lewis, Francesca Verunelli & guests - Casa Schira
11 July 2024 — Concert 20:00 - Chiesa di Vergeletto (Onsernone Valley)
12 July 2024 — The tribal and the universal, visions for a post-identitarian future: round table and performance with Mena Hanna (TBC), George Lewis, Francesca Verunelli & guests - Casa Schira
13 July 2024 — Closing Concert, 20:00 - Chiesa di Loco (Onsernone Valley)
14 July 2024 — Round Table and Closing Concert, 11:00 - LAC Lugano
lectures @ casa schira:
George Lewis: 05.07 —10:30
Francesca Verunelli: 06.07 — 10:30
Oscar Bianchi: 07.07 —10:30
TBA: 08.07 —14:00
TBA: 11.07 —15:00
TBA: 13.07 —14:30
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
Now in its third decade, the International Contemporary Ensemble 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), honoring the diversity of human experience and expression by commissioning, developing, recording, and performing the works of living artists in “a mission worth following” (I Care If You Listen).
CREDITS
The International Contemporary Ensemble’s performances and commissioning activities during the 2023-24 concert season are made possible by the generous support of our board of directors, many individuals, as well as the Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Cheswatyr Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Siemens Musikstiftung, New Music USA, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for the International Contemporary Ensemble.