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about ICE3 Ensemble
ICE3 Ensemble was born between the cities of Bern, Basel and Freiburg, as a result of the collaboration of the three musicians of Spanish origin, Núria Carbó, Santiago Villar and Javier Verduras. Its area of action ranges from the performance of contemporary classical music to the exploration of new forms of artistic expression within the current social context (reflecting on it, criticising it, as a source of inspiration or inviting reflection on it), using new technologies and seeking the fusion between sound and visual.
ICE3 Ensemble takes as a starting point the common experience of its three members within the world of percussion, to take even further the fine line that currently separates performance from interpretation, through collaboration with artists from other specialties.
ICE3 Ensemble aims to create its own repertoire through two ways: direct cooperation with different composers of the current scene and the development of a distinctive language taking audiovisual experimentation as an artistic tool.
SANTIAGO VILLAR
The Segovian percussionist Santiago Villar (1998- ) began his musical training at the Conservatory of Segovia, and obtained honors, best record and Extraordinary Prize. He continued his studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León, and completed a year of Erasmus + at the University of Music Fryderyk Chopin. In 2021 he obtained the End of Career Award and Special Mention in the Certamen Arte Joven. In 2022 he receives the Master in Performance with specialization in Sound Design at the Musik Akademie Basel.
Besides having collaborated with bands and orchestras (Sinfonie Orchester Basel, OSCyL, Collegium Musicum, OSAV, UMFC, ADDA), he has also been part of different contemporary ensembles: TMC, TACoS, CUME, Diagonal, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, ICE 3, Ex-sentia Ensemble, EIP, being co-founder of the last three.
He is especially focused on working with composers (Beatriz Fraile, Alberto Posadas, Fritz Hauser, Unsuk Chin, Helena Cánovas, Daniel Ott). He is currently an academician of Basel Sinfonietta, an orchestra specialized in contemporary music.
JAVIER VERDURAS
Born in Bezana (Cantabria) in 1998, he began his musical training in 2006 at the Professional Conservatory of Torrelavega, collaborating in different interdisciplinary projects, such as the creation of the group-batukada "Iroko".
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Later, he completed his higher studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León (COSCYL), where he received percussion lessons from Tomás Martín, Alejandro Coello, Manuel Pérez and Noè Rodrigo. In the academic year 2019/2020 he received an Erasmus+ scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (Germany), under the professorship of Håkon Stene and Bernhard Wulff
During these studies, he collaborates with different orchestras such as the OSCyL, JOL, JOSCAN, EMCS, TACOS, OHMF, among others; and forms different ensembles and chamber groups with which he experiments, performs different concerts at international level and participates in different festivals and competitions at present (JStroke Percussion Duo, ICE3 Ensemble and Clash Trio).Since October 2020, he has been studying for a Master's degree in Performance at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
NÚRIA CARBÓ
Núria Carbó is a Spanish percussionist, performer and creator born in Castelló, Spain, and currently based in Bern, Switzerland. Specialised in contemporary music for soloist, chamber, ensemble and sound arts, she has studied a Master in Contemporary Percussion with Brian Archinal at the Hochschule der Künste Bern.
She has been a finalist in numerous competitions, such as the Juventudes Musicales de España (Madrid) and the Berlin Prize for Young Artists, which has given her the opportunity to record and play solo pieces in important European halls, such as the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg) and the Musikbrauerei (Berlin).
She has collaborated closely with composers such as Manuel Rodríguez-Valenzuela, Michael Maierhof and Simon Steen-Andersen, commenting on their works and making studio recordings with some of them, and is member of ensembles and chamber groups such as Frames Percussion, ICE3 Ensemble, Aléoç Duo and Input Duo, thus consolidating a wide experience in chamber music and large ensembles.
She is supported by the Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung.
