Year-End News * if and only if named to the New York Times' Best Classical Albums of 2023 and Bandcamp's Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2023 Album (CD/digital) and full PDF score available from Carrier Records * interbeing (II) (collab. with TAK Ensemble) named to The Wire's Top Concerts of 2023 *** Upcoming Diagrams of the Ear [2024] for yarn/wire ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, GERMANY 2.2.2024 **** 2023-24 Selected Shows and Performances August 2023: Ostrava Days (CZ) Lector and Guest Composer at Ostrava Days 2023 August 28, 2023: Ostrava Festival (CZ) Ostravská banda plays Auditory Scene Analysis October 1, 2023: Tonhalle Zürich (CH) Tamara Stefanovich plays Helix as part of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation 50th Anniversary Celebration October 7, 2023: DiMenna Center, NYC interbeing (II) w/ TAK Ensemble (incl. premiere of ROOT AND VEIN, and Ode to Man) + sinonó October 20, 2023: The Lab, San Francisco, CA Selections from interbeing, w/ TAK Ensemble, alongside work by Michelle Lou October 21, 2023: Wind River, Santa Cruz, CA interbeing (III) w/ TAK Ensemble, alongside work by Michelle Lou; presented by indexical October 27, 2023: University of South Carolina Wet Ink plays modules/relationships and works by Pluta, Roberts, and Soper on the "Southern Exposure" series November 8, 2023: San Francisco Performances Jay Campbell and Conor Hanick perform gretchen am spinnrade November 12, 2023: Tenri Institute, NYC if and only if Album Release Concert, with Mariel Roberts and Josh Modney December 7-9, 2023: Dixon Place, NYC Wet Ink Ensemble 25th Anniversary Retrospective Festival December 14, 2023: Ackermanshof, Basel, CH Fx Kollektiv plays This is This is This is December 15, 2023: Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, CH Fx Kollektiv plays This is This is This is December 23, 2023: Bangkok Cultural Center, THAILAND TAK plays quintets from interbeing, alongside Behzadi, Gee, Sorey, and Bryan Jacobs * January 17, 2024: Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, FL Guest Composer of New Music Miami ISCM Festival February 2, 2024: ECLAT Festival, Stuttgart, DE yarn/wire premieres Diagrams of the Ear March 28, 2024: Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK TAK plays quintets from interbeing, alongside works by Diels, Gee, Sorey, and Jessie Cox April 3, 2024: Music Current Festival, Dublin, IRELAND TAK plays quintets from interbeing, alongside Behzadi, Gee, Sorey, and Jessie Cox plus more TBA... * about
Eric Wubbels (b.1980) is a composer and
performer. Since 2004 he has been pianist and
Co-Director of the
Wet Ink Ensemble (NYC). His music has been presented by LA Phil Green Umbrella series, Huddersfield Festival, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, Bowerbird, Chicago Symphony MusicNOW, New York Philharmonic CONTACT, Contempuls (Prague), TIME:SPANS, and Zurich Tage für Neue Musik, among others. A recipient of the 2023 Ernst von Siemens Foundation Composer Prize, Wubbels has been awarded grants and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYFA, NYSCA, Fromm Foundation, ISSUE Project Room, Chamber Music America, MATA Festival, Barlow Endowment, Jerome Foundation, and Yvar Mikhashoff Trust, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony ('11, '16, '20), 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, Erin Gee, Bryn Harrison, Clara Iannotta, Darius Jones, Cat Lamb, Ingrid Laubrock, Charmaine Lee, Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Katharina Rosenberger, Kate Soper, and Anna Webber. He has recorded for hatART, Carrier Records, Out of Your Head, Intakt, New Focus, and quiet design, among others, has held teaching positions at Amherst College and Oberlin Conservatory, and for the 2023-24 academic year will teach composition at the Peabody Institute. |