Mivos Quartet and Wet Ink Ensemble present their first joint concert, featuring works by Wet Ink composers Sam Pluta, Alex Mincek, and Kate Soper. Mivos will perform Sam Pluta's Lyra for amplified string quartet, a meditation on the flickering of stars in the New England night sky, Alex Mincek's arresting String Quartet No. 3, lift-tilt-filter-split, and Carl Christian Bettendorf's Il y a l'océan. In addition to the music for quartet, Kate Soper and Joshua Modney will perform Soper's duo for voice and violin, Cipher.
There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:30pm with Kate Soper, Alex Mincek, and Mivos members. Kate Soper and Joshua Modney will engage in a discussion on a collaborative model for the composer-performer relationship. Then Mivos members and Alex Mincek will discuss having a new work interpreted by more than one group, among other points.
Mivos Quartet, named an “excellent ensemble” in Time Out New York, have performed works by emerging and established composers including Anna Clyne, Wolfgang Rihm, Alex Mincek, Samson Young, Luke DuBois, Philip Glass, Huang Ruo, Tristan Perich and Kirsten Broberg. They have appeared at venues including The Stone, ISSUE Project Room, Monkeytown, Roulette and the Brecht forum, and have appeared on concert series including Concerti Aperitivo (Udine, Italy), HellHOT! New Music Festival (Hong Kong), and Edgefest (Ann Arbor, MI). Mivos was one of five groups selected for the Young Ensembles Fellowship at the 2012 Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik.
In addition to their international performing activities, Mivos have conducted workshops at CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore). Improvisation is also an integral part of their performances and has led to collaborations with artists such as Ned Rothenberg, Chris Speed and Nate Wooley. Mivos’ performance of Ned Rothenberg’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, “played with spontaneity and dexterity” (The Strad Magazine) and was recently released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label.
The Wet Ink Ensemble is a New York-based new music collective. Our mission is to present innovative programs of contemporary music, with a focus on creating, promoting, and organizing adventurous American music.
Founded in 1998, Wet Ink has presented over 80 concerts featuring a wide range of artists, both established and emerging. Now entering our 12th season, we have a reputation for exceptionally committed performances and for programming that is consistently diverse, fresh, and exciting. Our repertoire ranges from scores of rigorous notational complexity to indeterminate and improvisational music, from the American experimental tradition to the contemporary European avant-garde, and from acoustic to amplified to electronic works and works for homemade instruments.
As a consistent advocate for young composers, Wet Ink has commissioned, premiered and recorded works by emerging artists such as James Fei, Katharina Rosenberger, Seung-Ah Oh, Matthew Welch, Ben Hackbarth, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Randy Nordschow, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, and Charlie Wilmoth, among others. In addition, we have collaborated with a wide range of established artists, such as Peter Ablinger, Muhal Richard Abrams, Charles Gayle, The Knights, Bernhard Lang, George Lewis, Joe Maneri, David Shea, Timetable Percussion, Weasel Walter, Yarn/Wire, and Zs.
