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Wet Ink Ensemble to Present Mini-Festival Of Adventurous Music At Dixon Place

New York City-based new music collective Wet Ink Ensemble will present a mini-festival of adventurous music celebrating works by this season's artists-in-residence, plus a new album release by ensemble member Kate Soper. Learn how to attend.
Kate Soper to Release Recording Of Opera THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE

Composer Kate Soper will release the world premiere recording of her opera, THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE, featuring the Wet Ink Ensemble. This two-act opera delves into the complexities of love and desire.
Wet Ink Ensemble to Conclude 25th Anniversary Season With Spring Chamber Concert At St. Peter's Chelsea

Wet Ink Ensemble will wrap up its 25th anniversary season with a spring chamber concert at St. Peter’s Chelsea, featuring works by Carolyn Chen, Sam Pluta, and a world premiere by Eric Wubbels. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!
Wet Ink Ensemble Concludes 25th Anniversary Season with Spring Chamber Concert at St. Peter's Chelsea

New York City-based new music collective, Wet Ink Ensemble, concludes its 25th anniversary season with a spring chamber music concert featuring works by composers Carolyn Chen, Eric Wubbels, and Sam Pluta, alongside a duo performance by Peter Evans and Sam Pluta on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at St. Peter’s Chelsea.
Miller Theatre Announces The Winter 2024 Season Of Its Free POP-UP CONCERTS

Miller Theatre announces its Winter 2024 season of free POP-UP CONCERTS. Don't miss this exciting lineup of performances from January 23rd to March 12th.
Wet Ink Ensemble Gives Concert Of Premieres at The DiMenna Center Next Month

New York City-based new music collective Wet Ink Ensemble continues its 2022-2023 season with a program of new and recent works written Artist-in-Residence Rick Burkhardt and members of the ensemble on Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 7:30pm at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music's Benzaquen Hall.
Out Today: The Crossing Featured On John Luther Adams' 'Sila: The Breath Of The World'

Acclaimed GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing is featured alongside JACK Quartet and musicians from the University of Michigan on John Luther Adams' Sila: The Breath of the World, out today on Cantaloupe Music. Considered his most ambitious large-scale work to date, Adams describes the piece as “being rooted in our own unique position within the music and within the world, and from this loose collection of solitudes, community emerges.”
Wet Ink Ensemble Announces 2022-23 Artists-In-Residence

NYC-based new music group Wet Ink Ensemble announces its three new Artists-in-Residence: Obie award-winning theater artist Rick Burkhardt, composer and drummer Vicente Hansen Atria, and saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock.
Wet Ink Ensemble Presents AIR CONCERTS 04: Nick Dunston and Mosaic Orchestra At Abrons Arts Center, June 22

​​​​​​​Wet Ink Ensemble appears at the Playhouse Theater at Abrons Arts Center for AIR Concerts 04 on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 7:30pm. The Wet Ink band is joined by innovative improvisers that include bassoonist Katherine Young (also a 2021-22 Artist-In-Residence), vocalist Charmaine Lee, and trombonist Weston Olencki.
Wet Ink Ensemble Premieres Works By Katherine Young, Rick Burkhardt, Mariel Roberts, Peter Evans, and Eric Wubbels

The program features a new work by 2021-22 Artist-in-Residence Katherine Young, We are all lichens for bass flute, tenor saxophone, violin, cello, feedback piano, drum kit, and live electronics, in which improvisation permeates the piece as musicians improvise extended passages based on carefully workshopped materials.
International Contemporary Ensemble & Wet Ink Ensemble to Combine At Target Margin Theater

On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 7:00pm, the International Contemporary Ensemble combines with the Wet Ink Ensemble at Target Margin Theater to present new works on themes of text, language, and syntax by Rebecka Ahvenniemi, Linda Catlin Smith, Anthony Braxton, and Eric Wubbels.
Wet Ink to Present Two AIR Concerts Featuring New Works By Artists-in-Residence

On Wednesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 7:30pm, Wet Ink Ensemble will present two evenings of new music as part of the ensemble's AIR Concerts at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn.
Wet Ink Ensemble Releases Wet Ink Archive: 05 'Artists In Residence'

The issue includes Cymbals by Wet Ink percussionist Ian Antonio; Drilling by composer and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock; and four new recordings by Wet Ink's 2021-22 Artists-in-Residence, bassoonist Katherine Young and bassist Nick Dunston, with an introduction by Wet Ink Co-director Eric Wubbels.
Wet Ink Ensemble Announces Fall Season in NYC and Chicago and Launches Artist-in-Residence Program

The Wet Ink Ensemble announces its fall 2021 lineup of concerts and inaugural Artist-in-Residence Program, featuring composer-performers Nick Dunston and Katherine Young, as well as new editions of the Wet Ink Archive, the ensemble's artist-curated online journal of adventurous music.
TIME:SPANS Festival Presents Wet Ink Ensemble in Premiere Play Presentations

On Friday, August 20, 2021 at 7:30pm, Time:Spans Festival presents the Wet Ink Ensemble in a program of world premieres at The Dimenna Center for Classical Music's Mary Flagler Cary Hall. The concert features the in-person world premieres of Wet Ink members Alex Mincek's So Many Ways (2021), Sam Pluta's Systems of Interaction I (2021), and Mariel Roberts' or we don't need light (2021) as well as Ben Lamar Gay's Known Better. Still Lit (2021).
TIME:SPANS Festival to Present Wet Ink Ensemble In Premieres By Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Mariel Roberts and Ben Lamar Gay

The concert features the in-person world premieres of Wet Ink members Alex Mincek's So Many Ways (2021), Sam Pluta's Systems of Interaction I (2021), and Mariel Roberts' or we don't need light (2021) as well as Ben Lamar Gay's Known Better. Still Lit (2021).
Wet Ink Ensemble Releases Wet Ink Archive: 04 'Smoke, Airs'

Wet Ink Ensemble today releases the fourth edition of its new, monthly online journal of adventurous music and conversation, the Wet Ink Archive: 04 'Smoke, Airs.'
Wet Ink Ensemble Releases Second Edition of New Online Journal, WET INK ARCHIVE

Wet Ink Ensemble today released the second edition of its new online journal of adventurous music and conversation, the Wet Ink Archive.
Wet Ink Ensemble Announces New Monthly Journal, Wet Ink Archive

Today Wet Ink Ensemble released the first issue of its new, monthly online journal of adventurous music and conversation, the Wet Ink Archive.
Second Inversion Premieres Alex Mincek Track From Wet Ink Ensemble's New Album

On Friday, May 1, 2020, the Wet Ink Ensemble releases Glossolalia/Lines on Black on Carrier Records. The release features two extended works by Ensemble composers Sam Pluta and Alex Mincek: Mincek's Glossolalia and Pluta's Lines on Black. Performer/members of the Wet Ink Ensemble include Erin Lesser, flutes; Josh Modney, violin; Kate Soper, voice; Alex Mincek, saxophone; Eric Wubbels, piano; Ian Antonio, percussion; and Sam Pluta, electronics. 

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