Composing while Black

This event is a unique international collaboration between L’Itinéraire and the International Contemporary Ensemble. The concert celebrates a new generation of Afrodiasporic composers from around the world. By presenting perspectives that have historically been missing from academic research, concert programs, and journalistic coverage, this program demonstrates the important role that Afrodiasporic new music is playing as an intercultural, multigenerational space of innovation that offers new subjects, histories, and identities.

There will be a pre-concert discussion with composers Alyssa Regent and Corie Rose Soumah, moderated by Dr. Harald Kisiedu, co-editor, Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today. Following the concert, there will be a reception and book-signing.

This program is a collaboration between International Contemporary Ensemble, the Columbia Paris Global Center, and the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, where ICE Artistic Director George Lewis is currently a Fellow.

Programme

Alyssa Regent, Émergence (2024)
Andile Khumalo, Schaufe[r]nster II (2014)
Corie Rose Soumah, Limpidités IV (2022)
Hannah Kendall, when flesh is pressed against the dark (2024)
Levy Lorenzo and Fay Victor, MODIFIED (2024)
Jessie Cox, (Noisy) Black/blackness (Unbounded) (2024)

International Contemporary Ensemble
Rebekah Heller, direction
Joshua Rubin, clarinette
Jonathan Finlayson, trompette
Fay Victor, voix
Levy Lorenzo, percussion et électronique
Jacob Greenberg, piano

L’Itinéraire
Yua Souverbie, flûte
Mathilde Lauridon, violon

Avec
Damian Norfleet, voix
Weston Olencki, trombone