• Upcoming Project New work, Breathing Blocks (In Memoriam Kaija Saariaho), for symphony orchestra for the 70th anniversary of the São Paulo Symphony, conducted by Thierry Fischer.photo credit: Marco Borggreve more works
  • Upcoming Project New work for the Grossman Ensemble commissioned by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago.photo credit: Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition more works
  • Upcoming Project New work, Bonecas Russas, commissioned by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, for loadbang.photo credit: Tatiana Daubek more works
March 23, 24, 25, 2023 US premiere of Double Concerto, for Esperanza Spalding, Claire Chase, and large symphony orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA.
March 29, 30, 31, 2023 NY premiere of Double Concerto, for Esperanza Spalding, Claire Chase, and large symphony orchestra, New York Philharmonic, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, David Geffen Hall, New York.
May 18, 2023 Claire Chase will perform the Carnegie Hall debut of Parábolas na Caverna for solo flute, and Meditation and Calligraphyfor solo bass flute, Density 2026:part i & ii, New York.
Fall 2024 Felipe Lara was a recipient of the Nexus Award, from Johns Hopkins University. He will be co-curating the Polyaspora Festival with George Lewis, a five-day event focused on contemporary music by black, Brazilian, and Peabody student composers. The festival will feature workshops, lectures, and concerts by the International Contemporary Ensemble at Johns Hopkins’ brand new 555 Pennsylvania Avenue building in Washington DC, Fall 2024.
March 30, 2023 Wild Up performed Ventos Uivantes, for spatialized ensemble, part of Celebrity Series of Boston, Crystal Ballroom Somerville Theatre, Boston, MA.
March 18, 2023 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna for solo flute, and Meditation and Calligraphyfor solo bass flute, at MaerzMusik, Berliner Festspiele, Germany.
September 30, 2022 Grammy-award-winning Parker Quartet performed Sonare, for string quartet, at John Knowles Paine Hall, Blodgett Chamber Music Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
August 13, 2022 Rebekah Heller performed Metafagote, for bassoon and spatialized fixed media, at the opening concert of Time:Spans Festival.
June 1, 2022 Talea Ensemble performed Ventos Uivantes, for spatialized ensemble, part of Encores, Americas Society, New York.
April 22, 2022 Thomas Adès conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a performance of Brutal Mirrors (2018 - 30 minutes), for large chamber ensemble, part of Adès curated Voices of a Generation, Los Angeles, CA.
March 3, 2022 Miller Theatre Portraits Concert performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, featuring conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni. Rebekah Heller performed Metafagote, for bassoon and fixed media, and ICE performed the NY premiere of Chambered Spirals for large chamber ensemble, Columbia University, New York.
November 4, 2021 Tran(slate), for string quartet, performed by Ensemble TenTen, part 49th Pan Music Festival (ISCM Korea), Seoul, South Korea.
October 12, 2021 Pianist Conrad Tao performed Injust Intonations, Meany Center University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
September 18, 2021 Pianist Vicky Chow performed Injust Intonations, Koncertzāle Latvija, Ventspils, Latvia.
September 10, 2021 World Premiere of Double Concerto, for esperanza spalding, Claire Chase, and large symphony orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, Helsinki Music Centre. VIDEO.
August 5, 2021 Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy, for solo bass flute, Darmstadt International Courses for New Music, Darmstadt, Germany.
July 24, 2021 Pianist Vicky Chow performed Injust Intonations at the Bang on a can Summer Festival, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA.
June 10, 2021 JACK Quartet performed Tran(slate), at New Music on the Point, Leicester, VT.
March 3, 2021 Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphyfor solo bass flute, at Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra concert, Helsinki Music Centre, Finland.
February 24, 2021 Ensemble TenTen performed Tran(slate), for string quartet, Perigee Hall, Seoul, South Korea.
December 18, 2020 Meditation and Calligraphfor bass flute, performed as part of Claire Chase’s Density 2036, The Kitchen, New York.
December 8, 2020 Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy, DACAMARA’s Hearing Color, Seeing Time: DACAMARA at the Menil, Cy Twombly and Music, Houston, TX.
August 15, 2020 Conrad Tao performed Injust Intonations, Great Performers in Recital series, Tanglewood, Lennox, MA.
December 1, 2019 Mivos Quartet performed Lara’s Corde Vocale, for string quartet, part of Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourgh Philharmonie, Luxembourgh.
November 16 and 17, 2019 Pianist Conrad Tao, performed Injust Intonations, for piano solo, Edward T. Cone Concert Series, Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
September 12, 13, 14, 2019 São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Choir premiered Ó, for 8 amplified narrators, two choirs, orchestra, and pre-recorded sounds, conducted by Neil Thomson, text by Nuno Ramos, at Sala São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
June 10, 2019 International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) joins Berlin’s Ensemble Adapter and American woodwind quintet City of Tomorrow, in the American premiere of Brutal Mirrors, for large ensemble, at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY.
January 18, 2019 Flutist Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy, for solo bass flute, at Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
November 1, 2018 Bassoonist Rebekah Heller performed, Metafagote, for solo bassoon and fixed media at Issue Project Room, along with works by Ash Fure, Wadada Leo Smith, and Annea Lockwood, Brooklyn, NY.
October 25, 2018 Flutist Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna, at Holden Chapel, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
October 6, 2018 Mivos Quartet performed Corde Vocale, New Music Festival at Israel Conservatory, Tel Aviv, Israel.
September 20, 2018 Brutal Mirrors (30 mins) for sixteen instruments, premiered by Ensemble Modern, at Alte Oper, part of Musikfest Frankfurt, Germany.
August 18, 2018 American premiere of Tran(slate)’s version for string quartet and live electronics, JACK Quartet and the ExperimentalStudio Freiburg SWR, part of Time:Spans Festival, hosted by the Earle Brown Music Foundation, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York.
August 16, 2018 Fringes, for a spatialized large ensemble of 22 instrumentalists (commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain), performed by Talea Ensemble, Time:Spans Festival, hosted by the Earle Brown Music Foundation, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York.
April 17, and 19 2018 Film score for Brazilian feature/adaptation of Henry James’s novella The Beast in the Jungle, A Fera na Selva, featured in the Chicago Latino Film Festival, AMC River East 21, Chicago, IL.
April 3, 2018 Flutist Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy and Parábolas na Caverna, at Cy Twombly Gallery, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.
February 21, 2018 New York New Music Ensemble perform Tutti, for ensemble, part of New Works from Brazil, Americas Society, New York.
December 2, 2017 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna and Meditation and Calligraphy in six-hour Density 2013-2017 marathon, at BAMPFA, Berkley, California.
November 24, 2017 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna and Meditation and Calligraphy, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucia, Cordoba, Spain.
August 29, 2017 Collaboration with Electronic Dance Music producer Jesse Houk (The Scumfrog) and flutist Claire Chase, Meditation, Calligraphy Remix, performed at the sunrise at Burning Man 2017, Black Rock City, NV.
July 8, 2017 Pianist Conrad Tao premieres Injust Intonations, for solo piano, commissioned by The Gilmore at Aspen Music Festival, Aspen, CO.
June 15, 2017 Pianist Conrad Tao performed the unofficial premiere of Injust Intonations, for solo piano, at Caspary Auditorium Rockefeller University, New York.
May 31, 2017 Electronic Dance Music producer Jesse Houk (The Scumfrog) performed new collaboration with Lara and flutist Claire Chase, Meditation, Calligraphy Remix, Output, The Roof, Brooklyn, New York.
May 23, 2017 Mivos Quartet performed Corde Vocale at National Sawdus, presented by Chamber Music America, Brooklyn, New York.
May 7, 2017 Mivos Quartet performs Corde Vocale at Acht Brücken Festival, Cologne, Germany.
June 29, 2016 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Cavernafor solo flute, and Meditation and Calligraphy, for bass flute at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Perth, Australia.
June 1, 2016 The Orchestra of the League of Composers, performed the US premiere of Fringes, for large chamber ensemble, part of the New York Philharmonic Biennial, at Miller Theater, New York.
May 11, 2016 Portrait concert titled Felipe Lara: Meditations, Translations, and Calligraphy consisting of seven works, featuring flutist Claire Chase, bassoonist Rebekah Heller, sound engineer/instrument designer Levy Lorenzo, from the International Contemporary Ensemble, as well as the JACK Quartet with guest violist Elizabeth Weisser, at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA.
May 7, 2016 Portrait concert titled Felipe Lara: Meditations, Translations, and Calligraphy, consisting of seven works, featuring flutist Claire Chase, bassoonist Rebekah Heller, sound engineer/instrument designer Levy Lorenzo, from the International Contemporary Ensemble, as well as the JACK Quartet with guest violist Elizabeth Weisser, at Americas Society New York.
February 9, 2016 Ensemble InterContemporain, conducted by Ilan Volkov, premiered Fringes, for spatialized large ensemble, at Philharmonie de Paris 2, Paris, France.
April 18, 2015 International Contemporary Ensemble performed Tiento, for ensemble, conducted by Steven Schick, in a concert titled Voces de America Latina, Fromm Players at Harvard, Paine Hall, Harvard University.
April 8, 2015 Rebekah Heller and Levy Lorenzo premiere Metafagote, for bassoon and fixed media (six pre-recorded bassoons), at Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio.
April 4, 2015 Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy, for bass flute, at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall, Los Angeles, CA.
March 15, 2015 Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy at Flute Fair, New York Flute Club, Columbia University, New York.
March 4, 2015 International Contemporary Ensemble performed Prisma (Jennifer Curtis and Jacob Greenberg) and Postcard (Jennifer Curtis and Campbell McDonald)Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA.
February 28, 2015 Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy at Toronto Soundstreams, The Theatre Centre, Canada.
February 11, 2015 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna and Meditation and Calligraphy, at De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
January 25, 2015 Brentano String Quartet and violist Hsin-Yun Huang performed Archi elastici at Union College, Schenectady, NY.
January 23, 2015 Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy at The Banff Center, Canada.
January 11, 2015 Claire Chase performed Meditation and Calligraphy in the inauguration of the Budapest Music Center, Hungary.
December 30, 2014 Tragetória dos Grãos presented by Dias de Música Electroacústica Festival, at Collegium Musicum, Conservatório de Música de Seia, Portugal.
December 11, 2014 Camerata Aberta performed Postcard, part of the Music of the Americas Concert Series, Americas Society, New York.
November 28, 2014 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna, for solo flute, at El Festival de Música de Morelia, Mexico.
November 15, 2014 Riot Ensemble's (London) Heather Roche (clarinet) and Marco Fusi (violin) perform Postcard, in a concert titled Written for Me, Cecil Sharp House, London, UK.
November 10, 2014 Mivos Quartet performed Corde Vocale, Goethe Institute, part of Música de Agora na Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
November 5, 2014 Mivos Quartet performed Corde Vocale at Biblioteca Mario Schenberg, São Paulo, Brazil.
November 5, 2014 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna and Meditation and Calligraphy, Institute for New Music, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
October 7, 2014 Article on Mongolian newspaper Unuudur about Meditation and Calligraphy, the collaboration with Claire Chase, and the work of poet and calligrapher G. Mend-Ooyo, Mongolia.
October 4, 2014 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna and Meditation and Calligraphy, Carolina Center for the Performing Arts, part of the Overtone Series, Forrest Theater, in Chapel Hill, NC.
October 2-3, 2014 Claire Chase performs Parábolas na Caverna and Meditation and Calligraphy, part of Density 2036, The Kitchen, New York.
September 11, 2014 Brazilian premiere of Onda, for symphony orchestra, was performed, by the Amazonas Filarmônica and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Amazon Theater, Manaus, Brazil.
May 26, 2014 Claire Chase performed Parábolas na Caverna and Meditation and Calligraphy at Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerland.
May 14, 2014 International Contemporary Ensemble performed Voz dos Ventos, for spatialized flute, clarinet, and bassoon, at the Aspekte Festival, concert titled "The Spirit of New York," Salzburg, Austria.
May 8, 2014 International Contemporary Ensemble performed Voz dos Ventos, for spatialized flute, clarinet, and bassoon, at Acht Brücken Festival, Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany.
April 12, 2014 Brentano String Quartet and violist Hsin-Yun Huang performed the NY premiere of Archi Elastici at Kaufmann Concert Hall92Y, New York.
April 6, 2014 International Contemporary Ensemble performed Livro dos Sonhos, for solo flute, as well as the premiere of Voz dos Ventos, for spatialized flute, clarinet, and bassoon, part of the Experiment Station series, at the Phillips Collection, Washington DC.
April 4, 2014 Brentano String Quartet and violist Hsin-Yun Huang premiere Archi elastici, for string quintet, as part of the Morrisson Artist Series, at the San Francisco State University.
April 4, 2014 Claire Chase presents the premiere of Parábolas na Caverna, for solo flute, part of the New Music Circle, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, in St Louis, MO.
January 19, 2014 MIVOS Quartet, performed Corde Vocale, part of the CD release concert for ReappearancesDimenna Center for Classical Music, New York.
January 17, 2014 MIVOS Quartet performed Corde Vocale, Museum of Perception, Museum der Wahrnehmung (MUWA), Graz, Austria.
January 16, 2014 MIVOS Quartet, presented by Jeunesse, performed Corde Vocale at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria.
December 17, 2013 International Contemporary Ensemble presented Som(bra), Livro dos Sonhos, and Tiento, as part of OpenICE, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY.
November 15-24, 2013 Claire Chase and Alice Teyssier (International Contemporary Ensemble) presented the UK premiere of Som(bra) at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, UK.
August 18, 2013 International Contemporary Ensemble premiered Som(bra), for amplified alto and bass flutes and Tiento, for nine instruments, conducted by Steven Schick, as part of Mostly Mozart Festival, at Lincoln Center, New York.
August 4, 2013 Mivos Quartet performed Corde Vocale at Asphalt Festival, Düsseldorf, Germany.
June 12, 2013 MIVOS Quartet performed Corde Vocale at The Forge, London, UK.
May 25, 2013 MIVOS Quartet performed Corde Vocale, at Heliconian Hall, presented by the Canadian Sinfonietta, Toronto, Canada.
May 25, 2013 Camerata Aberta performed Postcard Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto (FEUP), part of the Festival Música Clássica Brasileira, Brazilian Year in Porto, Portugal.
May 24, 2013 Camerata Aberta performed Postcard at Teatro Gil Vicente (TAGV), part of the Brazilian Year in Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal.
May 23, 2013 Camerata Aberta performed Postcard at Museu Nacional dos Azulejos, part of the Brazilian Year in Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal.
April 21, 2013 International Contemporary Ensemble presented Livro dos Sonhos, for clarinet and piano, in a concert titled Almost New York, at Kings Place, London, UK.
April 4, 2013 Asasello Quartet performed Tran(slate)Neils Hap and Felix Behringer performed Vocalise, James Garlick and Felix Behringer performed Postcard, James Garlick and Anna D'Errico performed Prisma, Heidelberger Frühling, Germany.
February 21, 2013 International Contemporary Ensemble performed Livro dos Sonhos, at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
January 31, 2013 MIVOS Quartet performed Corde Vocale, for string quartet, at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Manchester, UK.
November 15, 2012 Distractfold Ensemble performed Postcard, for clarinet and scordatura violin, at EDGE MUSIC, London, UK.
August 3, 2012 Tran(slate) performed by the JACK Quartet as part of the ASTA of New Jersey Chamber Music Institute at Kean University, Union, NJ.
June 25, 2012 International Contemporary Ensemble perfomed Livro dos Sonhos, for clarinet and piano, at Teatro Amazonas (Amazon Theater), Manaus, Brazil.
June 24, 2012 International Contemporary Ensemble perfomed Livro dos Sonhos, for clarinet and piano, at Itau Cultural, part of the 2012 ICE Brazil Tour, São Paulo, Brazil.
June 22, 2012 MIVOS Quartet performed Corde Vocale at Echoraum, Vienna, Austria.