Mivos Quartet and Wet Ink Ensemble present their first joint concert, featuring works by Wet Ink composers Sam Pluta, Alex Mincek, and Kate Soper. In addition to the music for quartet, Kate Soper and Joshua Modney will perform Soper's duo for voice and violin, Cipher.

Composer-performance collective Wet Ink Ensemble kicks off Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York with the U.S. premiere of 2011 Gaudeamus Prize-winner Yoshi Onishi's "Départ dans..." Wet Ink will also play works by Ted Hearne, Chris Trapani and Richard Barrett along with works by Wet Ink members Alex Mincek and Kate Soper.

Wet Ink Ensemble plays new works by Eric Wubbels, George Lewis, and Kate Soper, as well as Rick Burkhardt’s Alban and Alex Mincek’s Nucleus. Founded in 1998, Wet Ink has presented over 80 concerts featuring a wide range of artists, both established and emerging.

Preparing the Past is an “evocative” three-movement work for 4-hand piano, two vibraphones and two glockenspiels. It is inspired by the activities taking and looking at photographs—from the actual picture-taking moment through the reconsideration of that moment as a physical artifact.