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Conducting @ TIME:SPANS Festival NYC

Rebekah is thrilled to make her conducting debut at the iconic NYC new music festival, TIME:SPANS
with The International Contemporary Ensemble

featuring US premieres by Marcos Balter and Corie Soumah
TIX and more info

PROGRAM

Ashkan Behzadi: Carnivalesque (2014-16)
for conductor, flute (piccolo), bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello

Tebogo Monnakgotla: Wooden bodies (2020)
for string quartet

Corie Rose Soumah:  Tossed Parachutes of Lilacs and Lungs (2025, US Premiere)
Co-commissioned by Darmstadt Summer Course and The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust
for conductor, flute, clarinet, percussion, electric guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, electronics 

Marcos Balter: New Work (2025, US Premiere)
Co-commissioned by International Contemporary Ensemble, Darmstadt Summer Course and The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust
for conductor, flute, clarinet, percussion, electric guitar, electric bass, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, electronics

Thierry Pécou: Méditation sur la fin de l'espèce (2017)
for conductor, flute/alto flute, [Cb Cl- contrabass clarinet?], electric guitar, keyboards, solo cello, violin, double bass, electronics (tape)

PERFORMERS

International Contemporary Ensemble
Rebekah Heller, conductor
Mariel Roberts, cello

Alice Teyssier, flute
Campbell MacDonald, clarinet
Daniel Lippel, electric guitar
Randy Zigler, electric bass
Erika Dohi, piano
Modney, violin
Gabriela Diaz, violin
Wendy Richman, viola
Mariel Roberts Musa, cello
Levy Lorenzo, percussion and electronics

Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima for Miller Theatre at Columbia University