Eric Wubbels - Executive Director/Piano/Accordion
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, International Contemporary Ensemble, orkest 'de ereprijs' (Netherlands), 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 pianist and accordionist, Wubbels performs 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.
