Rebekah joins ICE colleagues Fay Victor, Alice Teyssier, Clara Warnaar and Nathan Davis in an evening of Call for ___ premieres featuring composers Bonita Oliver and Sylvain Souklaye. She also joins Varun Rangaswamy in the performance of a piece for 2 bassoons by Victor.

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The International Contemporary Ensemble returns to NYU Skirball with a program of works by composer/pianist Anthony Davis and composer/vocalist Leila Adu-Gilmore. The evening will feature Adu-Gilmore’s Mahakala Oratorio (2020-23, world premiere of the live version) and Alyssum (2014); and Davis’s Wayang No. II (Shadowdance) (1982), Clonetics (1983), and a special solo performance by Davis. Drawing on an ultra-cosmopolitan range of musical and cultural sources, Leila Adu-Gilmore and Anthony Davis exemplify some of the many ways in which Afrodiasporic new music becomes revealed as an intercultural, multigenerational space of innovation that offers new subjects, histories, and identities.

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Rebekah makes her International Contemporary Ensemble Conducting DEBUT on a concert featuring the music of George Lewis and members of the AACM at the Part Avenue Armory

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Rebekah joins colleagues from International Contemporary Ensemble, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra, and Douglas Ewart for a program of both pre-composed and improvised works.

Photo by Jeenah Moon

Rebekah joins International Contemporary Ensemble for this one-of-a-kind experience:

In response to John Cage’s unrealized project, Noh-opera: Or the Complete Musical Works of Marcel Duchamp, which he envisioned to premiere in Japan, Tomomi Adachi seamlessly integrates the alluring aspects of opera and noh, using AI to compose music and lyrics from koan—short Zen Buddhist riddles.

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Rebekah performs with International Contemporary Ensemble for a program featuring composers from the African Diaspora, curated by George Lewis.

Featuring works by Courtney Bryan, Brittany J Green, and more.

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Rebekah premieres new compositions and improvisations for solo bassoon.

She also plays a set with International Contemporary Ensemble colleagues Joshua Rubin and Fay Victor.
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photo by Tarishi Gupta

Fay Victor and Rebekah Heller perform at the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians Festival at Roulette! Performing compositions by both Victor and Heller, their thrilling collaboration heavily features free improvisations.

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Rebekah performs with International Contemporary Ensemble. Works by Wadada Leo Smith, Andile Khumalo and more.

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Rebekah performs Grand Street Counterpoint, a new piece by Steve Reich for Solo Bassoon and 10 pre-recorded bassoons at the International Double Reed Society Convention in Bangkok.

Rebekah presents the World Premiere of Grand Street Counterpoint by Steve Reich at the Born Creative Festival in Tokyo.

She’ll also be performing solo works by:

Joy Guidry
Jessie Cox
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Nathan Davis

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https://www.borncreativefestival.com/bassoon

Rebekah joins International Contemporary ensemble in a deep dive of longtime collaborator and Rome Prize Winner Suzanne Farrin’s work

https://iceorg.org/events/2023/2/2/composer-portrait-suzanne-farrin

Come party with me as we celebrate the beautiful and wild 20 year history of the International Contemporary Ensemble!!

https://iceorg.org/polyaspora

Rebekah joins Mexico City based Bassoonist and Improvisor Maribel Alonso for an exciting duo show

This performance has been POSTPONED in solidarity with the striking Part Time Faculty of The New School

The final night of Rebekah’s 2022 residency features a new trio with two fantastic artists, Lester St. Louis and Chris Williams. This evening will be entirely acoustic, exploring the incredible sonic interplay between these three instruments rarely heard alone together.

Lester St. Louis, cello
Chris Williams, trumpet
Rebekah Heller, bassoon, voice and compositions

This performance has been POSTPONED in solidarity with the striking Part Time Faculty of The New School

Night 3 features the dynamic duo of Fay Victor and Rebekah Heller. Founded in early 2021, this duo has flourished through deep artistic connection and an electric musical language and communication.

Victor and Heller both compose for this duo, as well as honoring lots of open space for free improvisation.

Fay Victor, voice and compositions
Rebekah Heller, bassoon and compositions

Night 2 features Rebekah Heller on bassoon, Vox and using electronics in an evening of new and older works - all written for Rebekah, by Rebekah, or improvised.

Bach is a huge influence on this evening’s offerings

Rebekah’s First ever STONE residency opens with a wind trio, featuring her longtime trusted International Contemporary Ensemble Colleagues Isabel Gleicher and Joshua Rubin. Music by Mario Diaz de Leon, Gleicher and Heller

Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flutes and compositions
Joshua Rubin, clarinets and electronics
Rebekah Heller, bassoon, voice and compositions

International Contemporary Ensemble performs world premieres by Kate Gentile (commissioned by the Ensemble) and Fay Victor at Roulette Intermedium.