The Ives Ensemble plays the best modern chamber music in its purest form. Named after the maverick American composer Charles Ives, the ensemble is always looking for surprising music that one day we will treasure as our cultural heritage.
Composers such as John Cage, Aldo Clementi and Louis Andriessen wrote music for the ensemble. Today, too, the ensemble works together with leading contemporary composers and artists. With Amsterdam as their home base, the twelve musicians travel both in the Netherlands and abroad with programmes that make audiences listen in a new way.