International Contemporary Ensemble to Perform Free New Music Concert at Kent State

Schroth Guest Artist Series brings highly acclaimed New York Ensemble to campus

Thirteen musicians from the nationally acclaimed new
music ensemble known as ICE will perform a free concert
at Kent State University on Friday, Nov. 13.

Kent State University is proud to present the International Contemporary Ensemble, also known as ICE, at the Kent Campus on Friday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Kent State’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music’s Ludwig Recital Hall. The concert, sponsored by the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series, is free and open to the public. Tickets are required and seating is limited. To make reservations, call the Performing Arts Box Office at 330-672-ARTS (2787).

The International Contemporary Ensemble is a contemporary classical music ensemble based in New York City and Chicago. The group performs a diverse and extensive array of chamber, electro-acoustic, improvisatory and multimedia works. The concert at Kent State will showcase 13 members performing a repertoire, featuring such composers as Karastoyanova-Hermentin, Anthony Cheung, Sofia Gubaidulina and Marcos Balter. The program will culminate with a piece titled The Well and the Gentle by Pauline Oliveros, and will feature 25 Kent State students who compose the New Music Ensemble performing alongside the International Contemporary Ensemble musicians.

“We are excited to have the International Contemporary Ensemble, one of the world’s preeminent performing groups for contemporary music, come to Kent State,” says Ralph Lorenz, acting director of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music. “It will be an amazing opportunity for our many students interested in performing new music to work with ICE in master classes, coaching sessions and perform in the concert.”

A complimentary dessert reception, which is open to everyone, will immediately follow in the lobby of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music.

Ludwig Recital Hall is located in the Center for the Performing Arts, 1325 Theatre Drive on the Kent Campus. Parking is free.

For more information, visit www.kent.edu/artscollege.

About the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series

The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series has presented guest artists respected in the field of theatre, dance, visual arts, music and architecture. Now in its 14th year, the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series has brought such noted artists as Tony award-winners Stephen Schwartz, composer of Wicked, Into the Woods and more; Next to Normal actress Alice Ripley; Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet; postmodern minimalist artist Richard Tuttle; artists and fashion designers Ruben and Isabel Toledo; internationally acclaimed dance company Ballet Florida; actor, dancer and arts advocate Ben Vereen; and the Limon Dance Group, just to name a few. 

The Schroth series was established in 2001 by Cecile Draime and her late husband, Max, of Warren, Ohio, to honor their dear friend, Thomas Schroth (1922-1997). A noted regional architect, Schroth designed the Butler Institute of Art’s Trumbull Museum in Howland, as well as numerous other award-winning projects. Schroth spent his life in Niles, Ohio, as a prominent architect and inveterate collaborator in the artistic life of the Mahoning Valley and Northeast Ohio. A world traveler, he saw human creativity as a window-framing human experience. The Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series brings diverse views through that window to the Kent Campus and community. The events are always free and open to the public.