Winter 2022:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded generous grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs for its 2022-2023 season.

Winter 2021:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded a generous grant from the NET/TEN Foundation for its event with the Tiffany Mills Company and Seven Violas in June 2022.

Fall 2021:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded a generous grant from the New Music USA’s Organizational Development Fund for its 2021-22 Season.

Fall 2021:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded a generous grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for its 2022 Season.

Spring 2021:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University for our 2021-22 Season.

Summer 2021:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded a two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts for its 2021 season.

Winter 2020:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for its 2020-21 Season.

Fall 2019:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for its 2019-20 Season.

Spring 2019:

Ensemble Ipse is awarded a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University for our 2019-20 Season.

Ensemble Ipse releases an album of co-director Max Giteck Duykers’ music on New World Records: http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=new_releases&year=2019&month=05

Winter 2018:

Ensemble Ipse has been given an award from the Brooklyn Arts Council to present a workshop of Max Giteck Duykers’s opera Both Eyes Open in September 2019.

Winter 2017:

Ipse co-director Max Giteck Duykers has been awarded a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University for the release of "Folding Music" on New World Records.

Ipse co-diretor Joseph Di Ponio has been awarded a grant from the Queens Council on the Arts to compose an extended piece for Ensemble Ipse, to be performed under the 7 train in Sunnyside, Queens.

Fall 2017:

New World Records has offered to release a full album of the music of Ipse co-director Max Giteck Duykers, featuring Ensemble Ipse performing, with guest artist Zen Wu.  Recording will start in the fall of 2018 at Oktaven Audio, with a release date early in 2019.  Grammy award winner Judith Sherman will produce.

After carefully reviewing over 160 submissions, we're pleased to announce the results of our 2018 Call for Scores: Kyong Mee Choi's "To Unformed" will be performed on our Performer Portrait concert on 4/6/18 at Tenri Cultural Institute (featuring Esther Noh and Geoff Burleson), and Igor Santos' "Lamento" and Gabriel Bolaños' "Sonorita" will be performed on our concert of Latin American composers (both NYC premieres) on 5/6/18 at Shapeshifter Lab. Congratulations composers! These were difficult decisions, and we were very impressed with all the submissions.

Spring 2017:

For our 2017 Call for Scores, 152 compositions were submitted from 120 composers in 18 different countries.  We are pleased to announce that Jae-Moon Lee's M.O.N.T.A.G.E. for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello has been selected and will be given its U.S. premiere on our 3/5/17 Concert at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn, NY.  Congrats Jae-Moon!  You can read more about him here: http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/jae-moon-lee

Summer 2016:

Ensemble Ipse is selected for an award from New Music USA to commission Larry Polansky and Miguel Frasconi