For 20 years, the Wet Ink Ensemble has been programming and presenting concerts of adventurous new music at the highest level in New York City and around the world. Wet Ink: 20 is a collection of work rooted in an interconnected community of contemporary music – a synthesis of the performance practice developed in the “band” atmosphere of Wet Ink’s core septet of composer-performers, and of over a decade of multifaceted work with the frequent collaborators of the Wet Ink Large Ensemble, a collection of 28 renowned NYC-based new music performers whose breadth of experience ranges from performances with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and Yarn/Wire to Peter Evans Ensemble and the Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble.
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released September 15, 2018
Wet Ink Large Ensemble
Erin Lesser, flutes*
Karisa Antonio, oboe
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet (1, 3-4, 6-10)
Eileen Mack, clarinet (1, 7-10)
Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon
Alex Mincek, saxophone (1, 3-6), conductor (2)*
Ryan Muncy, saxophone (2)
Laura Weiner, horn (3-4, 6, 7-10)
Nicolee Kuester, horn (2)
Peter Evans, trumpet (3-5)
Gareth Flowers, trumpet (1, 6)
Weston Olencki, trombone
Dan Peck, tuba
Ian Antonio, percussion (1, 3-6)*
Russell Greenberg, percussion (1, 5, 6)
Lucie Vitkova, accordion
Jacqueline Kerrod, harp
Laura Barger, piano (3-4, 6), keyboard (1)
Ning Yu, Hammond B3 organ, harpsichord (7-10)
Julia Den Boer, piano (1, 7-10), celesta (7-10)
Josh Modney, violin (1-10)*
Marina Kifferstein, violin (1, 6-10)
Carrie Frey, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello
Gregory Chudzik, contrabass
Sam Pluta, electronics*
Kate Soper, vocalist*
Eric Wubbels, conductor (1, 3-4, 6-10), piano (2,5)*
*Wet Ink Co-Directors
Recorded by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mt Vernon, New York
Mixed by Sam Pluta at CHIME Studios, University of Chicago
Mastered by Matt Mehlan at The Stuudio, Chicago, IL
Produced by Sam Pluta
Cover Art by Angela Guyton
Funded in part through grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and from the Alice M. Ditson Fund. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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