Upcoming Events :
January 25, 2012 - Wet Ink performs Nucleus at the Issue Project Room, NYC.
January 27, 2012 - SEM Ensemble performs "For Petr Kotik" Prague, CZ.
January 29, 2012 - SEM Ensemble performs "For Petr Kotik" Ostrava, CZ.
February 7, 2012 - SEM Ensemble performs "For Petr Kotik" at Roulette, NYC.
February 22-25, 2012 - Residency at Duke University with the Wet Ink Ensemble.
February 29, 2012 - Mivos Quartet performs String Quartet No. 3 at Issue Project Room, NYC.
March 8, 2012 - Holographic Ensemble performs Poco a Poco at Bloomington NHS, Bloomington, Indiana.
March 9, 2012 - Holographic Ensemble performs Poco a Poco at Russian Recording Studios, Bloomington, Indiana.
March (TBA), 2012 - Michael Ibrahim premieres ALI at the World Saxophone Conference in Arizona.
March 25, 2012 - Wilhem Latchoumia will perform Pendulum 8 at Festival Archipel in Geneve, SW.
March 30, 2012 - Timetable Percussion + Wet Ink Ensemble perform "Trigger/Switch/Filter" at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NY.
April 24, 2012 - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will preview a newly commissioned work at Schermerhorn Symphony Center Nashville, TN.
April 25, 2012 - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will preview a newly commissioned work at Adelphi University.
April 28, 2012 - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will premiere a newly commissioned work at Carnegie Hall.
April 29, 2012 - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will perform a newly commissioned work at SUNY Purchase.
May 12, 2012 - Ensemble Dal Niente will perform Pendulum VII in Chicago.
May 23, 2012 - Wet Ink Ensemble will perform Pendulum VII at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY.
May 2012 (between 9 and 19) - Wilhem Latchoumia will perform Pendulum 8 at Festival Les Musiques, Marseille - (date to be confirmed).
June 2012 (between 8 and 10) - Wilhem Latchoumia will perform Pendulum 8 at Lille piano(s) festival - (date to be confirmed)
June 2, 2012 - Mivos Quartet performs String Quartet No. 3 at Issue Project Room, NYC.
July (TBA), 2012 - Mivos Quartet performs String Quartet No. 3 at the International Music Institute Darmstadt (IMD) in Darmstadt, Germany.
July (TBA), 2012 - Ensemble Linea will perform Poco a Poco at the International Music Institute Darmstadt (IMD) in Darmstadt, Germany.
Alex Mincek (born 1975) is a New York-based composer and performer. His music is typically characterized by unique timbres, dynamic textures, and complex repetitions. In addition to composing notated music he is also deeply committed to the art of improvisation, and has been influenced greatly by his participation in various forms of jazz, punk rock, and electronic music. He studied composition with Tristan Murail and Fred Lerdahl at Columbia University and with Nils Vigeland at the Manhattan School of Music, where he received a Master of Arts. As a performer, he studied saxophone with Richard Oatts at Manhattan School of Music (Bachelor of Arts) and with Bunky Green at the University of North Florida.
Mincek's music has been performed frequently at major music festivals, including the Festival Présences of Radio France, Voix Nouvelles at the Abbaye de Royaumont, Festival des Musiques Démesurées, the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD), the Contempuls Festival in Prague, and the Ostrava New Music Days. Mincek has collaborated with groups including the Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Cairn, Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble, the Janacek Philharmonic, Talea Ensemble, the Kenners, and the JACK Quartet. Mincek's music has also been recognized through commissions and grants from the New Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra-Leipzig, Ensemble XXI in Dijon, Present Music, MATA, the French Ministry of Culture, Meet The Composer, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Due East, ASCAP, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
From 2001-2005 Mincek was a member of the experimental ensemble Zs, with whom he performed his own music, the music of others, and improvisations. Mincek currently serves as the saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and artistic director of the Wet Ink Ensemble, a group dedicated to contemporary music, which he founded in 1998. |
News:
A new recording of Mincek's music featuring the JACK Quartet and Wet Ink Ensemble is now available from
Carrier Records
Mincek's music is now published by a special edition of Schott: PSNY (Project Schott New York). Selected scores are currently available and more are being prepared.
Go Here for more details.
Alex Ross recently listed Mincek's String Quartet No. 3 as one of the most memorable performances of 2011 in The New Yorker.