Upcoming Events- Winter/Spring 2012
(compositions in italics)
Jan.18.12 Littlefield Show
Eric Wubbels- This is This is This is
Diamond Terrifier (Sam Hillmer of Zs)
Patrick Higgins and MIVOS Quartet
Jan.25.12 Wet Ink/Gaudeamus @ IPR
Wet Ink plays works by previous winners of the Gaudeamus Prize, presented by the Gaudeamus Foundation.
Jan.31.12 Ablinger @ ACF
Playing music of Peter Ablinger at the Austrian Cultural Forum with Dave Taylor, Peter Evans, and Wet Ink Ensemble.
Feb.23-25.12 Duke Residency Part II
with Wet Ink Ensemble.
Mar.4.12 Kivie Cahn-Lipman and Smith College Choir (Greg Brown, conductor)
premiere of Star Map- New Hampshire, October, for choir, amplified cello, piano, and sine waves, at Smith College.
Mar.9.12 Talea Ensemble @ Tenri
Talea premieres Tautology and Translation, for clarinet, cello, piano, and percussion.
Mar.17.12 String Orchestra of Brooklyn @ St. Ann's Church
Premiere of Being-Time for string orchestra and percussion, commissioned by Issue Project Room. Also works by Spencer Yeh, Anthony Coleman, and MV Carbon.
Mar.30.12 Wet Ink + Timetable Percussion
great program of percussion-centric works by Victor Adán, Morton Feldman, Alex Mincek, and Sam Pluta. At the DiMenna Center.
Apr.5-7.12 Duke Residency Part III
with Wet Ink Ensemble.
Apr.14.12 Wet Ink @ St. Peter's Church-Chelsea
Large ensemble works by John Cage, Beat Furrer, and Kate Soper, and the premiere of the children of fire come looking for fire, for violin and piano.
Apr.20.12 Viola Quartet @ 2012 MATA Festival
@ Roulette, Brooklyn.
May.22.12 Festival of New American Music I @ Littlefield
May.23.12 Festival of New American Music II @ Roulette
Wet Ink's biennial survey of the American music scene. 2012 features split concerts with the Peter Evans Quintet and Jacob Sacks/Jacob Garchik/Dan Weiss, as well as works by Mark Barden, Mick Barr, Nomi Epstein, Cenk Ergün, Bryan Jacobs, and Alex Mincek.
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Dec.8-10.11 Duke Residency Part I
Wet Ink will be Ensemble-in-Residence at Duke this year, and this will be our first of three trips down to Durham.
Nov.9-15.11 Wet Ink Bay Area Tour
On tour with the Wet Ink Ensemble in California, with stops in Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Sacramento, and Davis...
Nov.4.11 Contempuls Festival (Prague)
Playing a 45' solo piano version of Peter Ablinger's "Voices and Piano," including the world premiere of a new movement, "Alvin Lucier."
Nov.2.11 Lecture at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts
In connection with an appearance at the Contempuls Festival
Sept.29-Oct.27.11 MacDowell Colony Residency
Sept.22.11 Wet Ink Ensemble plays George Lewis's "Les Exercises Spritiuels," presented by the "Interpretations" series
Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn
Sept.10.11 @ Gutter
Eric Wubbels / Jeff Snyder duo
Patrick Higgins (Animal)
Diamond Terrifier (Sam Hillmer of Zs)
Charlie Looker (Extra Life)
New duets for analog synth and computer-controlled crash cymbals, with Jeff Snyder. Great lineup, should be a great night.
Gutter, 200 N. 14th, Brooklyn
June.10.11 IPR's "Darmstadt" Festival
Wet Ink plays works by Wubbels, George Lewis, Burkhardt, Mincek, and Soper
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
May.27.11 Mathias Spahlinger Portrait Concert
Wet Ink offers the first major American showcase of Spahlinger's music
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
Eric Wubbels (b.1980) is a New York-based composer and performer. He is Executive Director, pianist, and a composer member of the Wet Ink Ensemble, a New York collective devoted to creating, promoting, and organizing adventurous contemporary music.Wubbels's music has been presented at concerts and festivals in Europe, Asia and the U.S., by groups such as the Wet Ink Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, ICE, Yarn/Wire, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco), Manabe/Moriyama Duo (Japan), and The Knights String Orchestra. He has received commissioning grants from the American Composers Forum/Jerome Composers Commissioning Program, and the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, and his music has been recorded for the Quiet Design and Carrier Records labels.
As a performer, he has given U.S. and world premieres of works by major figures such as Peter Ablinger, Richard Barrett, Michael Finnissy, Beat Furrer, Bernhard Lang, and Mathias Spahlinger. Recent engagements have included appearances at the MoMA (NYC), Monday Evening Concerts (L.A.), and the Contempuls Festival (Prague). He has recorded for Spektral (Vienna), Albany Records, Carrier, and Quiet Design.
From 2009-2011 he taught as a Visiting Professor at Amherst College, in Massachusetts.
He holds a D.M.A. and M.A. in composition from Columbia University, and a B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College. His principal teachers include Lewis Spratlan, Tristan Murail, Fred Lerdahl, and Fabien Lévy.
News
Very happy to have been chosen as the winner of the 2012 Yvar Mikhashoff Trust Pianist/Composer Commission, with pianist Eric Huebner. I'll write a new work for solo prepared piano which Eric will premiere at the 2013 June in Buffalo Festival.
Awarded a residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation for Summer 2013.
Viola Quartet selected for performance on the 2012 MATA Festival.
Current/Upcoming
four premieres this winter/spring, including works for Talea Ensemble, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Kivie Cahn-Lipman and the Smith College Glee Club, and Wet Ink Ensemble.