Artist Biography
Eric Wubbels piano
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, an ensemble devoted to experimental and contemporary music in New York. Currently completing his D.M.A. in composition at Columbia University, he has studied with Fred Lerdahl, Fabien Lévy, and Tristan Murail, and also holds a B.A. from Amherst College, where he was a student of Lewis Spratlan.

Wubbels's music has been presented at concerts and festivals in Europe, Asia and the U.S. He has received performances and commissions from the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco), Orkest de Ereprijs (Netherlands), Hochschule für Musik-Hanns Eisler (Berlin), Second Instrumental Unit (Boston), Manabe/Moriyama Duo (Japan), saxophonist Eliot Gattegno, and the Wet Ink Ensemble, among others, and grants from the Argosy Foundation Fund for Contemporary Music and Worldwide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund. His music has been recorded on the Quiet Design (Austin, TX) and carrier records (New York) labels.

As a pianist and accordionist, Wubbels performs with the Wet Ink Ensemble and The Kenners (with saxophonist Eliot Gattegno). As a soloist, he gave the American premiere of Peter Ablinger's piano and electronics cycle Voices and Piano, and has premiered works by both internationally renowned and emerging composers, including Michael Finnissy, Bernhard Lang, Davíd Brynjar Franzson, Alex Mincek, and Kate Soper, performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Stone, Jordan Hall in Boston, and at festivals in Germany, Hungary, Mexico and Brazil. With The Kenners, he has given masterclasses at the University of Michigan, Brooklyn College, Queens College, and UC-San Diego, and recorded Charles Wuorinen's Divertimento for Albany Records. Their debut CD will be released on the Spektral label (Vienna) in Fall of 2008.

He has taught at Columbia University, the University of California-San Diego, and Amherst College, and from 2001-2002 held the positions of Graduate Associate in Music and Assistant Director of Instrumental Music at Amherst.