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	ON CAMPUS: Ensemble Intercontemporain -- An evening of 20th-century music
		The concert by the Ensemble Intercontemporain at MIT last Friday was yet another testament to the extensive creativity of the composers of this century.
		In addition to this, the Ensemble played with such assurance that the concert, which consisted of music that is a challenge to listen to, was thoroughly enjoyable and oftentimes enlightening.
		The Ensemble Intercontemporain, founded by the venerable Pierre Boulez, is of such high caliber that every work they played was enjoyable to hear, even for those who have had little previous exposure to twentieth-century music.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N23/EnsembleInterco.23a.html (902 words)

	Jahresmagazin 2002/03 - Explosive Fireball
		Ensemble Modern knew what they were getting into as they contacted Frank Zappa in 1991.
		Not only did Zappa praise the ensemble ("Their commitment is breathtaking"), but also the interest, attention, and enthusiasm of the audience.
		The ensemble repeatedly requested to have Zappa's Synclavier pieces arranged for them, as if to prove to the composer that even the unplayable was actually playable.
	www.ensemble-modern.com /magazin1/02e_expl.htm (2912 words)

	Biografie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1976, Pierre Boulez set up the Ensemble Intercontemporain with the support of Michel Guy, who was Minister of Culture at the time.
		The Ensemble is renowned for its strong emphasis on music education: concerts for kids, creative workshops for students, training programs for future performers, conductors, composers, etc.
		The Ensemble is financed mainly by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, and receives financial support from the Paris City Council.
	www.kdschmid.de /englisch/03orch/1orchester.php3?k_id=289 (207 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Ensemble Intercontemporain, Zankel Hall, NY, Sept. 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They are all virtuosos on their respective instruments, and have chosen to bring to life and promote music from the 20th century to the present day.
		Every year, the Ensemble commissions new works from a number of composers, who are selected by a joint reading committee with the Ircam.
		Through this variety of periods and musical currents, the Ensemble asserts its vocation to share a musical experience rich in discoveries and emotions with its audiences.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/03eicsept.html (249 words)

	Worth a Look
		Ensemble Intercontemporain was created in 1976 by Michel Guy, then France's minister of culture, fulfilling the vision of Pierre Boulez for an ensemble devoted entirely to performing music of our time.
		The Ensemble was established as a permanent body of 31 outstanding soloists, rather than a full-time chamber orchestra.
		Boulez, now president of the Ensemble, advocated this more flexible structure, one that would be better adapted to the musical and instrumental requirements of new works.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/listings/1999_Apr_9.art.html (630 words)

	classical music - andante - pierre-laurent aimard
		The French pianist discusses his formative years with Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain, as well as the wonders of Messiaen, Ligeti and -- not to be overlooked -- pygmy music.
		Before joining that ensemble at age 19, he spent his adolescence immersed in the sound world of Olivier Messiaen, a composer whose music he describes as his "mother language." While these experiences have earned him a reputation as a 20th-century music specialist, Aimard also maintains an interest in more traditional fare.
		The Ensemble Intercontemporain is a group that has changed a lot.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16063 (2035 words)

	WWW Ircam: Reading Panel
		The jury is composed of independent figures of international stature, along with the artistic directors of both the Ensemble intercontemporain and IRCAM.
		Instrumentation of the works is subject to a prior agreement between the composer and the Ensemble intercontemporain.
		Finished works are programmed for the concert season of Ircam or the Ensemble Intercontemporain, on tour, or during the Agora festival, which takes place every year in June.
	www.ircam.fr /220.html?L=1 (983 words)

	Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft - Boulez 2000: Boulez-SurIncises
		The Ensemble InterContemporain gives 70 concerts a year both at home and abroad, engaging with different contemporary styles and ensuring that the performances are of the very highest standard.
		He is joined in the present recording by the Ensemble de violoncelles de Paris, a group of young soloists formed in 1990.
		Under the direction of François Salque, this talented and dynamic ensemble devotes itself to out-of-the-way works, exploring a repertory that is richer than is generally believed and regularly commissioning pieces from contemporary composers.
	www.deutschegrammophon.com /boulez2000/boulez-cds/boulez6/06_boulez_performers.html (459 words)

	Galliard Ensemble CD Reviews
		With their passion for new music, the members of the Galliard Ensemble are definitely doing their bit to open up the music of little-known composers to a wider public.
		The Galliard Ensemble, a wind quintet formed in 1993 whilst its members were studying at the Royal Academy of Music, makes a very favourable impression on its recording debut.
		The Ensemble's playing in incisive, confident and well-tuned even in extreme registers; the recording preserves an excellent balance between the instruments, though the bright acoustic militates against subtlety at the quiet end of the spectrum.
	www.margaretmurphy.com /galliard/gallcdrevs.htm (2817 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eva Böcker, member of the Ensemble Modern since 1994, was a student at the Purcell School and a youth student at the Royal College of Music in London before she studied at the music high school Cologne under Boris Pergamenschikow and at the Dusseldorf high school under Johannes Goritzki.
		When the Ensemble Modern's musicians met Frank Zappa in 1991 it was the foundation of an extraordinary and intense union which sadly was to end only two years later with Zappa's death.
		The Ensemble Modern and the Ensemble Modern Orchestra will be performing a concert series featuring the works of Helmut Lachenmann beginning this August at the Lucerne Festival and continuing throughout Europe until November.
	www.ensemblemodern.com /english/news.htm (2059 words)

	Ensemble Modern
		Ensemble Modern: Eva Boecker, Gerard Buguet, Uwe Dierksen, Thomas Fichter, William Forman, Michael Klier, Hermann Kretzschmar, Catherine Milliken, Bruce Nockles, Klaus Obermaier, Franck Ollu, Rainer Roemer, Noriko Shimada, Wolfgang Stryi, Mathias Tacke, Dietmar Wiesner, Ueli Wiget
		This is the newest composition on the CD, commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporain of Paris who premiered the piece in January 1992 at the Musee d'Art Moderne.
		The title was taken from a prose text in Heiner Mueller's play "Zement" which describes Hercules' second task, his struggle with the Hydra, and the fighter's gradual transformation into his adversary, a fighting machine.
	www.heinergoebbels.com /cds/cd02.htm (793 words)

	Paris New Music Review: Boulez Interview
		In the ensemble, there is quite a turnover; you can imagine that, especially in an ensemble whose lifespan is over seventeen years, there will be musicians who want to go forward with their own careers.
		Or the ensembles who do specialise in modern music have no resources, or very little backing; so you see that in New York, for instance, the ensembles that perform new music are really in great trouble, because they cannot find money.
		If you have solid ties, a solid contract, and musicians who are committed--committed for good reasons, of course--then you have an ensemble that is coherent, made up of musicians who are ready to study contemporary music and make their lives--not just their livings--with that.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/interviews/boulez.html (5489 words)

	Ensemble Intercontemporain to perform 20th-century classics: 4/99
		Ensemble Intercontemporain will perform new work and 20th-century classics at 8 p.m.
		Conducted by David Robertson, the ensemble tackles unusual repertoire and experimental projects as well as classics from the first part of the century.
		The performance is the Ensemble's first Bay Area appearance in more than 10 years.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/1999/april7/ensemble-47.html (130 words)

	Ecstatic Architecture: Liza Lim: Composers: ELISION Ensemble
		Firstly, there is the percussive playing action of plucking or striking the string (the element of violence) and then the subsequent resonance of the string which the musician inflects by depressing and releasing the string as the sound moves towards silence (the element of meditation).
		I thought of the opening of the work as the breathing of a giant sheng (mouth organ) in which notes are squeezed out through broken reeds, with air escaping out of crevices in the instrument.
		She sees Earth falling away from her as she claims more and more her own story until she is able to say `restless ghost, I recognise you.´ This is a point of both self-recognition and release -- a release that comes in the form of acceptance rather than rejection of the complexities of freedom.
	elision.org.au /composers/lim/ecstatic-architecture/index.html (3313 words)

	EIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The French new music group "Ensemble Intercontemporain" was in Seattle, for two days of residency at the School of Music, University of Washington, April 20-21, 1999.
		Created in 1976 by Michel Guy, then France's Minister of Culture, fulfilling the vision of Pierre Boulez for an ensemble devoted entirely to performing the music of our time, the Ensemble Intercontemporain quickly established itself as one of the leading groups for new music in the world.
		The Ensemble Intercontemporain gives between 70 and 85 concerts annually, about half in Paris, and the remainder throughout France and abroad.
	faculty.washington.edu /~jdurand/eic.htm (260 words)

	Classical Net Review - Chin/Boulez - Akrostichon-Wortspiel, etc./Le Marteau sans Maître, Dérive 1& 2
		Pierre Boulez founded the Ensemble Intercontemporain in 1976, and in the past three decades it has given its all not just to the music of its founder, but to music by other modern composers as well.
		The Double Concerto (2002) is scored for prepared piano, percussion, and ensemble, but the timbres of the piano fall well outside of the stereotypes established by John Cage and others of his generation.
		In fact, Unsuk Chin seems as eager to reconcile the timbres of the soloists and the ensemble as she is to oppose them.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/d/dgg775118a.html (863 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Artist Details
		She has also appeared with the Gavin Bryars' Ensemble, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Asko Ensemble, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Ensemble Modern, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
		Recent highlights have included a concert at the Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, a tour with the Nash Ensemble, a concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, concerts with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, and debuts with the BBC Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
		Future engagements include concerts with Ensemble Contrechamps, the Ensemble Modern, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and debuts with the Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
	wdch.laphil.com /about/performer_detail.cfm?id=751 (453 words)

	classical music - andante - making boulez's desert bloom
		The composer-conductor leads the Ensemble Intercontemporain in a program of his own music at New York's Zankel Hall.
		But a focused, composer-led performance helps matters quite a lot; hearing Boulez and his own ensemble play the piece at Zankel, one could comprehend that Marteau is the crystallization of a very particular moment in 20th-century music.
		It was the strength of the performers — all associated with the hotshot Ensemble Intercontemporain — that made all the difference in appreciating Boulez's music.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=22226 (715 words)

	French culture \| music : Pierre Laurent Aimard: US Tour 2001-2002
		In 1977 Pierre Boulez invited him to become a founding member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
		In 1977, at the invitation of Pierre Boulez, he became a founding member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
		Both as a member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain (with which he played for eighteen years) and independently, Aimard takes an active role in the world of contemporary music and has given numerous world premieres.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/0203aimard.html (597 words)

	Unsuk Chin: Akrostichon-Wortspiel - Unsuk Chin , David Robertson , Kazushi Ono , Patrick Davin , Stefan Asbury , ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The performers in the spotlight are the soprano Piia Komsi, the percussionist Samuel Favre, and the pianist Dimitri Vassilakis.
		The range of sounds provided by the ensemble is extended by microtonal writing in which some of the instruments are returned by a quarter-tone or a sixth-tone.
		With the Ensemble Intercontemporain as performers, this is avant classical music of the highest order.
	www.nine-music.com /Unsuk_Chin_AkrostichonWortspiel_B0006VXF2S.html (1242 words)

	flairmedia - 20/21 - Berio: Sequenzas / Ensemble InterContemporain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These works for solo instruments are recorded by some of the persons to whom they were written.
		Ensemble InterContemporain has some of the best musicians of avant guard music in the world.
		These works display extended instrumental techniques that have shaped the course of 20th century music by all other composers in the same school.
	www.flairmedia.net /store/item-B00000I93T.shtml (250 words)

	U of M: School of Music: Valdine Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Highlights have included a concert in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, a tour with the Nash Ensemble, a concert with Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, concerts with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and débuts with the BBC Symphony, New York Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras.
		She has also completed tours with Ensemble Intercontemporain and a combination of Ensemble Contrechamps, Collegium Novum Zurich and Ensemble Phoenix Basel in performances of Pli selon Pli all conducted by Pierre Boulez.
		Future engagements include concerts with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, a recital for Calgary Opera and concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao.
	www.umanitoba.ca /schools/music/faculty/anderson.html (638 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		A virtual image of the spacial placement of the six speakers surrounding the ensemble and audience in the performance is achieved on this recording via the "Spatialisateur', a computer program developed at Ircam.
		Ensemble InterContemporain (Pierre Boulez, conductor) is superb in its performance of 'Repons', as is Alain Amiens, clarinet soloist in the second work.
		The performances are by Hae-Sun Kang (violin) and Andrew Gerzso (electroacoustic realization), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) with Ensemble de Violoncelles de Paris (Pierre Boulez, conductor), and soloists from Ensemble Intercontemporain: Florent Boffard, Hideki Nagano, and Dimitri Vassilakis (piano), Frederique Cambreling, Marianne Le Mentec, and Sandrine Chatron (harp), and Daniel Ciampolini, Michel Cerutti, and Vincent Bauer (percussion).
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=iircamcds (665 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pierre Boulez (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In recent years he has devoted much time to the development of sophisticated electronic equipment for the production, generation, and modification of musical sound.
		This work is exemplified by his ongoing composition REpons, for orchestra, ensembles, and electronic devices.
		He has continued to conduct a modernist repertoire of his own and other 20th-century works, leading several orchestras, notably his own Ensemble InterContemporain and the London Symphony Orchestra.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Boulez-P.html (436 words)

	Soyulla Ensemble
		Soyulla Ensemble’s recent projects include the commissioning and premiering of a new work by Jonathan Cole, one of England’s most acclaimed young composers; performances during the opening week celebration at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Center in September 2004; and an upcoming CD release of the Ensemble’s live recordings from the past two seasons.
		In 2005, The Soyulla Ensemble makes its New York debut at Lincoln Center¹s Alice Tully Hall under the auspices of the Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York (www.kcsny.org), in their first in a series of "Distinguished Young Artists" programs.
		She was a Fulbright scholar in Cologne, Germany, and participated and performed in several European festivals such as the Manchester Festival, the Kronberg Festival, the Ensemble InterContemporain Summer Workshop, and the Fulbright Berlin Conference.
	www.renegadeclassicproductions.com /soyulla.htm (1476 words)

	Ensemble Intercontemporain - L'Ensemble Intercontemporain
		Ensemble par passion de la musique, inter pour l’ouverture à la diversité, contemporain car engagé dans la création de notre temps.
		Un nom décidément bien choisi pour cet ensemble instrumental qui se consacre à l’interprétation et à la diffusion de la musique du XXe siècle à aujourd'hui.
		Il est formé de 31 musiciens, tous solistes mais unis dans leur passion pour la création musicale.
	www.ensembleinter.com (177 words)

	musikFabrik - Termine 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cantatrix Sopranica (2004/2005) for 2 sopranos, countertenor and ensemble
		Unsuk Chin, who was recently awarded the Arnold Schönberg Prize, received a commission for Cantatrix Sopranica from the London Sinfonietta (World Première), Ensemble Intercontemporain, Los Angeles New Music Group, St. Pölten Musik-Festival, musikFabrik and the Kunststiftung NRW.
		With it's range from Belcanto to other more avant-garde forms of expression, along with imitations of non-European vocal music such as Chinese folk songs, Cantatrix Sopranica is a "Representation of elementary singing elements", said Chin about her new work.
	www.musikfabrik.org /english/termine/2005/20050522.htm (726 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Sound Waves
		Not that it's an overly athletic work, but a conventional, 19th-century-style auditorium usually cannot accommodate the musical teams: an instrumental ensemble of 24 musicians in front of the audience, a group of six soloists surrounding the audience, and an electro-acoustic system consisting of a computer and a set of six loudspeakers distributed around the hall.
		After the remarkable introduction--a huge upbeat performed by the central ensemble, creating the most itchy feeling of anticipation--the six soloists chime in, enhanced and transmogrified by the live electronics.
		There are dialogues between the larger ensemble and the soloists, between the soloists and their transformed sounds, and among the soloists themselves.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/75.html (1089 words)

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