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available November 2017, through Bandcamp

(more about the piece here)
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Feb.17, 2018
Solo and duo at ISSUE Project Room

Premiere of acoustic quanta (solo piano),
and contraposition (with Weston Olencki)


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 Upcoming

 large new project for piano (2018- )
for Vicky Chow, Kris Davis, Conor Hanick, Matt Mitchell, Jacob Sacks, Craig Taborn, Conrad Tao, and Richard Valitutto

new pieces for TAK, Hypercube, and Modney/Roberts/Wubbels Trio

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Early 2018 Tours:
Jan. 2018-- California (Palo Alto, Berkeley, L.A., San Diego) with Weston Olencki
Feb. 2018-- Switzerland and France (Biel, Geneva, Paris) with Mariel Roberts

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Selected Events
  Winter/Spring 2017
                                                                   December 7, 2017: Manhattan School                   New York, NY                            Tactus plays alphabeta
                                                                   December 11-14, 2017: Oktaven Studios               Mt. Vernon, NY                          Wet Ink Large Ensemble recording for Carrier Records
                                                                   December 15-16, 2017: Power Station                   New York , NY                           Conducting orchestral music of Ingrid Laubrock
                                                                   JAN 2018: California Tour with Weston Olencki. Works by Olencki and Wubbels (contraposition)
                                                                   January 13, 2018:   CCRMA (Stanford)                 Palo Alto, CA       
                                                                   January 14, 2018:   CNMAT (UC-Berkeley)          Berkeley, CA        
                                                                   January 16, 2018:   CalArts                                     Valencia, CA     
                                                                   January 17, 2018:   Camilleri Hall (USC)              Los Angeles, CA
                                                                   January 19, 2018:   UCSD                                        La Jolla, CA  

                                                                   FEB. 2018: Switzerland/France Tour with Mariel Roberts. Works by Wubbels (gretchen am spinnrade), George Lewis, Franzson, Mincek.
                                                                   February 4, 2018:    Le Singe                                   Biel, SWITZERLAND
                                                                   February 5-7, 2018: Fondation L'Abri                   Geneva, SWITZERLAND        [Residency]
                                                                   February 8, 2018:    L'Abri                                       Geneva, SWITZERLAND        (Concert)
                                                                   February 9, 2018:    Columbia Global Center       Paris, FRANCE 
                                                                      
                                                                   February 2, 2018:  Café Littéraire                           Biel, SWITZERLAND              HYPER DUO plays doxa
                                                                   February 3, 2018:  Centre ABC                               La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH         HYPER DUO plays doxa    
                                                                   February 17, 2018:  ISSUE Project Room              Brooklyn, NY                             Solo and duo performance, as part of ISSUE's "Syncretics Series"
                                                                   February 17, 2018:  Maison du Concert                Neuchâtel, CH                           Le Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain plays katachi
                                                                   February 23, 2018:  Constellation                          Chicago, IL                                 Wet Ink Ensemble-- new works by Mincek and Pluta
                                                                   February 25, 2018:  Constellation                          Chicago, IL                                 gretchen am spinnrade, with Mariel Roberts
                                                                  
                                                                   March 5, 2018:  Conservatoire de Lausanne        Lausanne, SWITZERLAND     HYPER DUO plays doxa
                                                                   March 10, 2018: Victoria Gallery and Museum   Liverpool, GREAT BRITAIN    Ensemble 10/10 (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic) plays katachi                                     
                                                                   March 7-29, 2018:  Copland House                     Cortlandt Manor, NY                   Copland House Residency      
                                                                       
                                                                   April 9, 2018:  DiMenna Center                            New York, NY                             New York New Music plays Tautology and Translation
                                                                   April 13, 2018:  ppIANISSIMO Festival              Sofia, BULGARIA                       HYPER DUO plays doxa
                                                                   April 13, 2018: The Kitchen                                   New York, NY                             Viola Quartet on MATA Festival 20th Anniversary Concert
                                                    
                                                                   May 24, 2018:  St. John’s Smith Square                London, GREAT BRITAIN        Siwan Rhys and George Barton play doxa

    

   
New Recordings


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



contraposition
for trombone and prepared piano



Weston Olencki, trombone
Eric Wubbels, piano
live recording, first performance
6/10/2016


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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.

 The recipient of a 2016 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Wubbels has been
awarded commissioning grants from Chamber Music America's Classical Commissioning Program, 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.

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, Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Katharina Rosenberger, and Kate Soper.

He has recorded for Carrier Records, hatART, Spektral (Vienna), New Focus, Albany Records, and Quiet Design and has held
teaching positions at Amherst College and Oberlin Conservatory.