IFCP Ensemble

The IFCP Ensemble was created simultaneously with the IFCP Festival in 2004 to present collaborative performances that included IFCP faculty and soloists, guests from the New York Philharmonic as well as from Speculum Musicae, and select IFCP participants. Artistic Director Marc Ponthus has been the conductor of the ensemble in works by Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen, Mario Davidovsky, Georges Aperghis and Yan Maresz. Members of the Ensemble have included Allen Blustine, clarinet, Rolf Schulte and Curtis Macomber, violin, Andre Emelianoff and Maria Kitsopoulos, cellist, Satoshi Okamoto, double bass, Jill Sokol, flute, and Matthew Gold and Jim Baker, percussion.