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WINTER/SPRING 2019 New Music Several new pieces premiering early in 2019: if and only if for violin, cello, and prepared piano (60') with/for Mariel Roberts and Josh Modney 2.2.2019 DiMenna Center NYC for Michael Heizer saxophone, keyboards, electric guitar, percussion (45') for HYPERCUBE 3.24.2019 Now Hear This Festival Edmonton, AB, Canada (NYC premiere May 2019) modules / relationships flute, tenor saxophone, voice, violin, piano, percussion, live electronics (15') for the Wet Ink Ensemble 4.1.2019 Roulette NYC New Albums Wet Ink - 20 [Carrier] Wet Ink was named the "Best Ensemble" of 2018 by the New York Times Ingrid Laubrock- Contemporary Chaos Practices [Intakt] I conducted two orchestral works by by Ingrid Laubrock for this Intakt release featuring soloists Kris Davis, Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, and Nate Wooley * New Series Co-curating a new series with Anna Webber at Areté Gallery in Greenpoint Convergences brings together musicians from across the spectrum of the New York music community, highlighting shared aesthetic threads in various traditions of improvised, composed, and notated music. Each night is a shared bill of two artists working at various intersections of jazz, experimental, classical, new music, noise, etc. 1st Season features Judith Berkson, Patricia Brennan, Jon Irabagon, Ava Mendoza, Oscar Noriega, Weston Olencki, Mariel Roberts, Jen Shyu, Richard Valitutto, Biliana Voutchkova, Philip White, and Seth Parker Woods more info at www.convergencesmusic.org * Selected Events
Winter/Spring 2019 (compositions in italics) Nov. 25, 2018: Pro Musica Montreal, QC, CANADA Jay Campbell and Conor Hanick play gretchen am spinnrade Dec. 1, 2018: St. Peter’s, Chelsea New York, NY Wet Ink + Peter Evans’s Being and Becoming Dec. 8, 2018: Depot.K Freiburg, GERMANY HYPER DUO plays doxa Dec. 11, 2018: Unerhörte Musik Berlin, GERMANY Dec. 13, 2018: Kulturnhalle Leipzig, GERMANY Dec. 15, 2018: IGNM Bern, SWITZERLAND Dec. 13, 2018: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences III: Jen Shyu / Seth Parker Woods Dec. 15, 2018: Agassiz Theatre, Harvard Cambridge, MA Jay Campbell and Conor Hanick play gretchen am spinnrade
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Feb. 2, 2019: DiMenna Center New York, NY Premiere of if and only if (piano trio), with Josh Modney and Mariel Roberts Feb. 9, 2019: The Site Museum Santa Fe, NM Coleman Itzkoff and Conor Hanick play gretchen am spinnrade Feb. 18, 2019: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences IV: Rajna Swaminathan / Luke Stewart Feb. 19, 2019: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Anthony Braxton "Composition 222" for violin and piano (with Josh Modney) Feb. 24, 2019: Boston Conservatory Boston, MA Wet Ink @ Boston Conservatory Mar. 14, 2019: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences V: Weston Olencki / Biliana Voutchkova Mar. 24, 2019: Now Hear This Festival Edmonton, AB, CANADA HYPERCUBE premieres for Michael Heizer Apr. 1, 2019: Roulette Brooklyn, NY Wet Ink Ensemble premieres modules / relationships Apr. 18, 2019: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences VI: Patricia Brennan / Richard Valitutto Apr. 27, 2019: New Music New College Sarasota, FL Wet Ink plays modules / relationships + Soper Voices from the Killing Jar May 16, 2018: Areté Gallery Brooklyn, NY Convergences VII: Jon Irabagon / Mariel Roberts New Recordings Auditory Scene Analysis I for 18 instruments, narrator, and electronic sound Wet Ink Large Ensemble Erin Lesser, flute Kate Soper, voice Sam Pluta, electronics Eric Wubbels, conductor being-time for string quartet and electronic sound Mivos Quartet Bryan Jacobs and Eric Wubbels, electronics gretchen am spinnrade for cello and piano Mariel Roberts, cello Eric Wubbels, piano --------------------------------------------------------------
![]() Eric Wubbels (b.1980) is a composer and pianist, and a Co-Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble. His music has been performed throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and the U.S., by groups such as Wet Ink Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, yarn|wire, Splinter Reeds, Kupka's Piano (AUS), SCENATET (DK), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and featured on festivals including Huddersfield Festival, Chicago Symphony MusicNOW, New York Philharmonic CONTACT, MATA Festival, and Zurich Tage für Neue Musik. Wubbels has been awarded grants and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, ISSUE Project Room, MATA Festival, Barlow Endowment, Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, and Yvar Mikhashoff Trust, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony (2011, 2016), Copland House, L'Abri (Geneva), Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Civitella Ranieri Center (Italy). As a performer, he has given U.S. and world premieres of works by major figures such as Peter Ablinger, Richard Barrett, Beat Furrer, George Lewis, and Mathias Spahlinger, as well as vital young artists such as Rick Burkhardt, Francesco Filidei, Erin Gee, Bryn Harrison, Clara Iannotta, Darius Jones, Cat Lamb, Ingrid Laubrock, Charmaine Lee, Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Katharina Rosenberger, and Kate Soper. He has recorded for Carrier Records, hatART, Intakt, New Focus, Spektral (Vienna), quiet design, and Albany Records, among others, and has held teaching positions at Amherst College and Oberlin Conservatory. |