Claire Chase, flute
Claire Chase, flutist, is active as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and arts entrepreneur. As a soloist, Chase has received top prizes in the National Young Artist Competition, the International Chamber Orchestra Young Artist Competition and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Competition. She has performed concertos with orchestras in the US, Canada and Mexico, and was recently featured at the National Flute Association Convention, performing a new concerto by Harvey Sollberger. As a chamber musician, Chase performs in over 75 concerts a year and has performed the world premieres of over 100 new solo works. press kit

Jennifer Curtis, violin
Dynamic violinist Jennifer Curtis appears regularly as featured soloist and as collaborative chamber musician across the United States and abroad. Also an accomplished composer, her compositions have been performed in New York City, at The Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondiin Italy, and at the Verbier Festival de Musique in Switzerland, among others. Capturing first prize wins at concerto competitions associated with The Juilliard School and The University of California, a recipient of an award from The California Music Federations' Competition for Soloists, and winner of Mills College's Martha Friedberger Cupfor most outstanding music graduate, ... press kit

David Reminick, saxophone
ICE saxophonist David Reminick received Masters Degrees in Saxophone and Music Theory from the University of Michigan as well as a BM in Saxophone Performance and a BA in Psychology from Oberlin Conservatory and College. He is the singer/guitarist for the Chicago-based band Paper Mice, and has performed improvised duets with trumpeter Peter Evans for the past six years. Reminick currently teaches music theory and saxophone at Columbia College Chicago and will begin teaching saxophone at Northeastern Illinois University this fall. press kit

Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Joshua Rubin (clarinet) is a founding member of ICE. Rubin has recently been featured at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA), at Massachusetts MoCA, on WFMT radio in Chicago and internationally at festivals in Poland, Norway and Mexico. Rubin can be heard on upcoming recordings with the Tzadik, Bridge, Cedille, Focus Recordings and Naxos labels. He is also a member of the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, and the clarinet and percussion duo Breekbaar. press kit


David Schotzko, percussion
As a soloist, chamber musician, and founding percussionist of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), David Schotzko has premiered over 75 new works by composers from around the world. He has worked closely with established composers such as Steve Reich, Julio Estrada, David Lang, Martin Bresnick, Evan Ziporyn, Tan Dun, and James Wood, as well as continually championing the works of young and emerging composers such as Dai Fujikura, Du Yun, and Suzanne Farrin. Recent and ongoing projects include: premieres of works for solo percussion by Mexican composers Julio Estrada, Ignacio Baca Lobera, and Wilfrido Terrazas ... press kit