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

 

COMING IN NOVEMBER 2026:

Stephanie Griffin - Photo by Oriana Camara; Courtesy of MacDowell

Ensemble Ipse
Performer Portrait Series: Stephanie Griffin

Thursday Nov 19th 2026, 7:30pm
MISE-EN_PLACE
45 St Nicholas Ave, New York, NY 10026

TICKETS: https://tinyurl.com/2ab9n8sd

Program:
-Ursula Mamlok - “Above Clouds for viola and piano” (2013/14) 
-Elizabeth Brown - “Nocturne for viola and soundscape” (2026) WORLD PREMIERE
-Christopher Gordon Forbes - Still Life With Viola (2021) WORLD PREMIERE
-Stephanie Griffin - Solo improvisation (2026)
-Stephanie Griffin - “Beautiful You Are: A Song Cycle for soprano, clarinet, viola and piano” (2022)

With Ensemble Ipse pianist Geoffrey Burleson and clarinetist Christa van Alstine
Guest soprano: Sharon Harms

 

COMING IN DECEMBER 2026:

Ensemble Ipse
Celebrating Sheila Silver at 80
Sunday, December 20th, 2026, 4:30pm
DiMenna Center for Classical Music - Benzaquen Hall
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

TICKETS HERE: https://tinyurl.com/2xzy5use

PROGRAM:
Resilient Earth (2025) for Violin and Piano
Dance Converging (1987) for Viola, Horn, Percussion and Piano
Selections from Six Preludes for piano on poems of Baudelaire (1991)
Songs of Resilience (2026) for Voice and Piano

Performers:
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano
Rachel Doehring Jackson, Soprano
Sarah Scofield, Mezzo Soprano
Ann Ellsworth, Horn
Stephanie Griffin, Viola
Matt Ward, Percussion
Geoffrey Burleson, Piano
Gil Kalish, piano

Sheila Silver

“The Air Around Us” - Mary Frank

 

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 50 works, 24 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 is a 501(c)(3) organization. and all donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.  

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Ensemble Ipse
671A Quincy St Apt. 1
Brooklyn, NY 11221