The International Contemporary Ensemble returns to Roulette to celebrate the World Premieres of this season’s Call For___ composers. Each year, two early-career artists are commissioned for a new work to be premiered at one of the Ensemble’s events during an upcoming concert season. The selected artists receive workshop and rehearsal opportunities with the Ensemble’s musicians throughout the process, as well as mentorship and support for documentation. This year’s composers are Lester St. Louis and Camila Agosto, whose works will be debuted alongside Paul Novak’s seven dreams about my body, one of the works that received a 2025 BMI Composer Award.

Lester St. Louis: New Work (2026)
Camila Agosto: The Shape of Forgetting (2026)
Paul Novak: seven dreams about my body (2024)

International Contemporary Ensemble
Alice Teyssier voice flute
Fay Victor voice
Emmalie Tello clarinet
Erin Rogers saxophone
Nathan Davis percussion
Erika Dohi piano
Gabby Diaz violin
Modney violin
Kyle Armbrust viola
Mariel Roberts Musa cello
Lizzie Burns double bass

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Described as “America’s foremost new-music group” (The New Yorker), International Contemporary Ensemble is dedicated to supporting living composers through commissioning, developing, and premiering new works. Now in its third decade, the Ensemble has premiered over 1,000 works and plays a pivotal role in launching and shaping the careers of today’s most influential composers. Through its bold programming and innovative curation, the Ensemble continues to redefine the possibilities of contemporary music. The Ensemble has brought its vision of a mosaic musical ecosystem to festivals and venues all over the world including Carnegie Hall, Maerzmusik/Berliner Festspiele, Warsaw Autumn, Miller Theatre Composer Portraits, Museum of Modern Art New York, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, HEAR NOW Los Angeles, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, NYU Skirball, Pioneer Works, Oberlin College, House of World Cultures, Ojai Music Festival, Peabody Conservatory, TIME:SPANS Festival, Big Ears Festival, Adelaide Festival, the Dutch National Opera, Cité de la Musique (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Japan Society.