Specialists at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago will lead this day-long book-making workshop, with a special focus on photography books. Materials and lunch will be provided. More details to come. Space is limited and cost is $50 per person. Members, please call or email Sarah Miller to reserve your spot at 312-369-7794 or sarmiller@colum.edu.

Saturday, 10am-5pm

Thursday, 6 pm

Join fellow members in a private tour of 50% Grey with the exhibition’s curator, Karen Irvine. Refreshments will be provided. Members, please call or email Sarah Miller to reserve your spot at 312-369-7794 or sarmiller@colum.edu.

Thursday, 5:30-6:30pm

The Czech New Wave is considered one of the richest eras of cinematic history. Made between 1964 and 1968, during a brief period of artistic freedom, these films are marked by a use of humor, tragedy, humanity, and surrealism often mixed with political commentary. Master puppeteer Jirí Trnka’s stop action animation short the Hand examines freedom of expression and oppression and was banned under communist rule.

Thursday, 6:15pm
624 S. Wabash, 6th floor, room 602

The ICE @ MoCP concert series continues with James Austin Smith and Nick Masterson, the two master oboists of the International Contemporary Ensemble. This evening of rarely-heard works for oboes solo and in duet will feature the Midwestern premiere of Brad Balliett’s Slow-Burning Sarabande, first performed by Smith in October but appearing here in a beefed-up version for not just one oboe, but two — double your oboe, double your fun. Other duo works include Christian Wolff’s exploratory For 1, 2, or 3 people and Michael Finnissy’s playful miniature Yso.

The duo will also each showcase their solo chops; Masterson will perform a complex canon with himself via tape delay on Jonathan Harvey’s Ricercare una Melodia, and Smith will tackle Berio’s boundary-pushing Sequenza VII, his performance of which was called “brilliant” by The New York Times.

Program
Christian Wolff: For 1, 2 or 3 people
Lucio Berio: Sequenza VII
Brad Balliett: Slow-Burning Sarabande, version for 2 oboes
Jonathan Harvey: Ricercare una Melodia
Michael Finnissy: Yso

About James Austin Smith
Praised for his “confident and controlled” performances by The Boston Globe and his “assured, polished and beautifully nuanced” chamber music collaborations by The New York Times, New York-based oboist James Austin Smith is a member of ICE, Sospiro Winds, and the Metropolis Ensemble, as well as a fellow of The Academy/Ensemble ACJW. Mr. Smith has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), Speculum Musicae, as soloist with the Manhattan Sinfonietta and as chamber musician at Bargemusic. Mr. Smith’s principal teachers are Stephen Taylor, Christian Wetzel, Humbert Lucarelli, Hansjörg Schellenberger and Ray Still. For more information please visit www.jamesaustinsmith.com.

About Nick Masterson
Nick Masterson is currently a member of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony In C. Before relocating to the northeast, Nick was a member of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in Charleston, SC for three years, where he held the position of Second Oboe and English Horn. An enthusiastic advocate of new music, Nick has been a member of ICE since 2003, with which he has played in many critically acclaimed performances including the American premiere of the Xenakis Opera Oresteia and most recently a John Adams concert at the Mostly Mozart Festival under the direction of the composer. Nick holds an undergraduate degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and a Master’s degree from Rice University.

About ICE
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) was founded in Chicago in 2001, and has rapidly established itself as one of the leading ensembles of its generation, performing over fifty concerts a year in the US and abroad. ICE is a uniquely structured chamber music ensemble comprising thirty dynamic and versatile young performers who are dedicated to advancing the music of our time. Through innovative programming, inter-disciplinary collaborations, and the creation of genre-defying new presentation and production models, ICE brings together new music and new audiences.

ICE’s 2009–10 Chicago season is generously made possible by the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development, the Irving Harris Foundation, LUSES, a CityArts program grant from the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Friday, February 12, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Museum of Contemporary Photography
600 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL

Join us as curator Whitney Bradshaw leads a tour of this international, world-class photography collection that spans the history of the photographic medium, from 1839 –present. Nearly 700 artists are represented in this more than 5,000 photograph collection, including master photographers Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Thomas Struth, and Rineke Dijkstra. Space is limited and preference will be given to member Levels II and above. Members, please call or email Sarah Miller for more details and to reserve your spot at 312-369-7794 or sarmiller@colum.edu.

Thursday, 4-5pm

Thursday, 6:15pm
624 S. Wabash, 6th floor, room 602

Thursday, 5 - 7pm

Thursday, 4 pm

Friday, 7:30pm

Claire Chase and Eric Lamb, Flutes
Campbell MacDonald and Joshua Rubin, Bass Clarinets

The electrifying flute duo Wired and the bassy clarinet duo Lowfirm face-off in a concert featuring a precision display of woodwind acrobatics. Music by Steve Reich, Philippe Hurel, Felipe Lara and Olga Neuwirth, with premieres of new works by Pablo Chin, Marcos Balter and Ryan Ingebritsen.

Pablo Chin: Como la leyenda de Ixquiq for two flutes (2009) WORLD PREMIERE
John Zorn: Sortilege for two bass clarinets (2001)

Marcos Balter: Edgewater for bass flute and alto flute (2009) WORLD PREMIERE

Felipe Lara: Vocalise for two bass clarinets (2007)

Ryan Ingebritsen: Residence on Earth Part 1 : El Gran Océano for two flutes and two bass clarinets, with electronics (2009) WORLD PREMIERE

Join fellow members in a private tour of Reversed Images with the exhibition’s curator Natasha Egan and enjoy some refreshments. Space is limited. Please call 312-369-9974 or email sarmiller@colum.edu to reserve your spot.

Tuesday, 6 pm

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Taian lu is a poetic account of a pregnant woman’s journey through the city of Shanghai. Nostalgia is an ode to the traditional Longtang and Shikmen housing structures that are rapidly disappearing from the neighborhoods of Shanghai. Shanghai Waiting for Paradise follows three generations of the Wang family living under one roof in the old city of Shanghai as they are confronted by the imminent demolition of their home.

Thursday, 6 pm
Ferguson Lecture Hall
600 S. Michigan Ave.
1st Floor

Thursday, 6pm
618 S. Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor

This program is presented by the Columbia College Photography Department’s Lectures in Photography series.

Friday, 7:30 pm @ MoCP

David Bowlin, violin

In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Photography, ICE begins its Chicago season with this unmissable show featuring Luigi Nono’s late masterpiece, La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, a poignant and sweeping work for violin and live sound, performed by ICE violinist David Bowlin. David will also play music by Luciano Berio and Salvatore Sciarrino, to whom Nono’s piece is dedicated.

Salvatore Sciarrino: 6 Caprices (1977)
Luciano Berio: Sequenza VIII (1976)
Luigi Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (1992)

Download a ICE-produced podcast about the Reversed Images concert!