News
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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



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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

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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
                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                            2019

                                                       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
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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.