Events-Summer 2010
(compositions in italics)
Jun.3.10 This is This is This is
for alto saxophone and prepared piano
Wet Ink Ensemble
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
Jun.5.10 alphabeta (premiere)
for piano four hands and 2 percussion
Yarn/Wire
Roulette, NYC
Jun.16.10 ACA Festival
Wet Ink Ensemble plays works by
Kate Soper and Matthew Welch
Symphony Space, NYC
July.23.10 Euphony
for tenor saxophone and large ensemble
Wet Ink Ensemble
Miller Theater, NYC
Previous
May.27.10-Wet Ink Ensemble
Festival of New American Music, II
@ Roulette, NYC
May.23.10-Shiverer
Wet Ink Ensemble
alongside Bernhard Lang's DW 1.2
The Roger Smith Hotel, NYC
May.1.10-This is This is This is
for two alto saxophones and prepared piano
Wet Ink Ensemble
Festival of New American Music
@ Roulette, NYC
Apr.14.10- Euphony
NIU New Music Ensemble
NIU New Music Festival, DeKalb, IL
Apr.15.10- Shiverer
Wet Ink Ensemble
NIU New Music Festival, DeKalb, IL
Mar.23.10-Wet Ink/Flexible Music Double Bill
Galapagos Art Space, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Mar.5.10- Wet Ink Ensemble @ Issue Project Room
Feb.10.10- Wet Ink Ensemble @ Rotherwas Gallery, Amherst, MA.
Jan.24.10- Wet Ink Ensemble @ Roger Smith Hotel, NYC
Jan.11.10- Kenners @ L.A.'s Monday Evening Concerts
Zipper Concert Hall
200 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
playing works by McCallum, Webern, and Babbitt
Jan.12-16.10- Kenners @ UCSD, La Jolla, CA
recording a new duo disc for Carrier Records
Fall 2009
Dec.4.09-Wet Ink Ensemble: Bauhaus @ the MoMA, NYC
Presented by the MoMA as part of their exhibition "Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity".
Nov.13.09- Kenners at the 2009 Contempuls Festival, Prague, CZ
Opening for ensemble recherche
Nov.10.09- Wet Ink Ensemble: Mincek/Sciarrino @ The Tank, NYC
Sept.23.09- Wet Ink Ensemble: Peter Ablinger Portrait Concert@ St. Peter's Church-Chelsea, NYC
Sept.15-20.09- beata viscera
recorded by Kammerensemble Neue Musik-Berlin, Berlin, D
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. In addition, he is currently a Visiting Professor at Amherst College, in Massachusetts.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.
Wubbels performs as a pianist with the Wet Ink Ensemble and The Kenners (with saxophonist Eliot Gattegno). With these two groups, he has premiered dozens of works by young composers, and given U.S. premieres of works by major figures such as Peter Ablinger, Richard Barrett, Michael Finnissy, Beat Furrer, Bernhard Lang, and Mathias Spahlinger. 2009-10 engagements include 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, and given masterclasses at the University of Michigan, Brooklyn College, Queens College, and UC-San Diego.
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
Lots of new recordings! Full versions of This is This is This is, Euphony, and Viola Quartet are now up on the listen page.
Yarn/Wire recorded my new quartet alphabeta up at EMPAC in June, which will be released on Carrier Records this fall.
And KNM-Berlin's recording of beata viscera is scheduled for release later this year, as well (you can hear an excerpt now here).
The New York Times reviewed Wet Ink's July 23rd concert at Miller Theater, including Euphony for saxophone and large ensemble. Read the review here.
Current Pieces
- Processing for solo viola and orchestra
for the New York Philharmonic
NYPhil "Composer's Studio" Project