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. 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), and the Wet Ink Ensemble, among others, and grants from the Argosy Foundation Fund for Contemporary Music and Robert Wilson‘s Watermill Center. His music has been recorded on the Quiet Design (Austin) and carrier records (New York) labels. As a pianist and accordionist, Wubbels performs with the Wet Ink Ensemble and The Kenners. As a soloist, he recently 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, among many others, appearing at festivals in Brazil, Germany, Hungary, and Mexico.
