Luna Composition Lab is proud to present a night of six world premieres by the 2024-25 Fellows—Sam Pichardo, Danity Pike, Mia Turakhia, Zoe Verduin, Brannon Warn-Johnston, and Emilie Wolff—performed by the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble in the Weill Music Room in Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing. Alongside these premieres, ICE will perform work by Luna Lab mentor composers Han Lash, Nkeiru Okoye, Angélica Negrón, and Mari Esabel Valverde.

PROGRAM

EMILIE WOLFF: Why Dance

HAN LASH: Start

DANITY PIKE: just like the dolls

MARI ESABEL VALVERDE: Prélude en la bémol

MARI ESABEL VALVERDE: his eyes were in the stars

MARI ESABEL VALVERDE: Snøen

ZOE VERDUIN: Joshua Tree

BRANNON WARN-JOHNSTON: Stages of Inspiration

NKEIRU OKOYE: Breaking Bread

SAM PICHARDO: Of it all

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN: Hush

MIA TURAKHIA: Beneath Dying Skies

PERFORMERS

Members of the International Contemporary Ensemble

Alice Teyssier, flute

Kal Sugatski, viola

Erika Dohi, piano

Clara Warnaar, percussion

ABOUT LUNA COMPOSITION LAB

Founded in 2016 by composers Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid, Luna Composition Lab provides mentorship, education, and resources for young female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers ages 13-18. Luna Composition Lab is the only initiative of its kind in the United States. It has achieved national recognition as a program that not only celebrates underrepresented voices but also shapes music’s future by providing a support system for continued success. Luna Composition Lab is a platform for a successful and well-balanced career in the arts. Alumni of the fellowship program have gone on to receive national awards, attend the nation’s top colleges and conservatories, and receive commissions from renowned chamber ensembles and orchestras. 75% of the program’s alumni in college are studying composition, and 100% are involved in music.

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE

Now in its third decade, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) 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. Co-founded in 2001 by flutist and MacArthur “genius” Fellow Claire Chase, the Ensemble has premiered over 1,000 works. The Ensemble has given performances at Warsaw Autumn, TIME:SPANS, Berliner Festspiele, HEAR NOW Los Angeles, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, Ojai Music Festival, and Big Ears Festival as well as in venues such as the Dutch National Opera, Cité de la Musique (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, Japan Society, Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center, Fridman Gallery, Chelsea Factory, NYU Skirball and Walt Disney Concert Hall.