into the blue

Two days and I'm off to Finland with ICE. It's a long-anticipated trip and I think it'll be fascinating, not least for the music we're bringing there: a enormous piece by Jason Eckardt, stuff by some of ICE's trademark composers, as well as classics from Elliott Carter and Mario Davidovsky, among others. Du Yun is also bringing a crazy new world premiere, "Impeccable Quake," and she's improvising on her Chinese zither for another piece...wild. Who knows what the Finns will make of us, but it'll be really exciting all around.