Photos: Reuben Radding, John Gurrin, Carlos Castañda Jr.

 

COMING IN NOVEMBER 2025:

Ensemble Ipse + Repast Baroque
Science Fiction: The New Music of the Spheres

Saturday, November 22 at 7:30pm
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
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Sunday, November 23 at 4pm
First Unitarian Congregational Society
48 Monroe Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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PROGRAM:
• Judith Berkson - “Harmonious Diesis” - CONSORTIUM COMMISSION & WORLD PREMIERE
• Molly Herron - “Other Fields of Gravity” - CONSORTIUM COMMISSION & WORLD PREMIERE
• Stephanie Griffin - “Mars Hill” - WORLD PREMIERE
• Joseph Di Ponio - “Untitled” - WORLD PREMIERE
• Max Giteck Duykers - “Zero Body Problem” - WORLD PREMIERE
• Claudio Monteverdi - “Sfogava con stelle” -arr. Sarah Stone
• Dario Castello - “Sonata Ottava (Book 1)” - arr. Sarah Stone

Commencing with a love-sick cry to the stars in Monteverdi’s madrigal Sfogava con stelle, this collaborative program between new music Ensemble Ipse and early music group Repast Baroque explores themes of novelty and innovation spanning from the 16th-century philosophy of music of the spheres to Science Fiction and technology of our modern age alongside new works by Molly Herron, Judith Berkson, Joseph Di Ponio, Stephanie Griffin, and Max Giteck Duykers.

Guest performers:
Alex Shiozaki, violin
Colleen Bernstein, percussion

 

NOW AVAILABLE ON NEW WORLD RECORDS:

Max Giteck Duykers
Ensemble Ipse
Folding Music

Track Listing:
1. Folding Music (13:06)
2. Scatterloop (8:52)
3. The Way In (8:47) - with guest soprano Zen Wu
4. Twilight for Adored and Breathless Moments (12:37)
5. Arborescence (10:54)
6. Dark Body (14:48)

We’re thrilled to announce the release of our album of co-director Max Giteck Duykers’ music on New World Records with 9-time Grammy winning producer Judith Sherman. •Purchase here
•Liner notes by New Music Box’s Frank J. Oteri here.
•Review on Kathodik
•Review on Fanfare
•Review on Avant Music News

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Ensemble Ipse is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to showcasing the wide variety of practices in the current new music scene. The ensemble presents concerts of recent music that transcends aesthetic categorization and strives to create a forum for composers and sound artists on the edges of the mainstream of contemporary music. With this in mind, Ensemble Ipse is committed to performing and commissioning the music of emerging composers, as well as composers who have been traditionally under-represented in the larger new music community, including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+.

Since forming in 2016, Ipse has premiered 41 works, 19 of them commissions, held numerous calls for scores for emerging composers, received support from the New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New Music USA, the Queens Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Network of Ensemble Theaters, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and released an album on New World Records.

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Ensemble Ipse
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