Events :
June 5, 2010 - New Work for Yarn/Wire: Roulette, New York
May 27, 2010 - Wet Ink Ensemble: Roulette, New York
May 7, 2010 - Wet Ink Ensemble Residency: Amherst College
May 1, 2010 - Wet Ink Ensemble: Roulette, New York
April 24, 2010 - New Work for Jack Quartet: St Peters Church - Chelsea, New York
April 16, 2010 - Double Concerto performed by Due East with the NIU Orchestra: Northern Illinois University
March 4, 2010 - Wet Ink Ensemble with Carrier Records: Issue Project Room, New York
Feb 10, 2010 - Wet Ink Ensemble Residency: Amherst College
Jan 24, 2010 - Wet Ink Ensemble: The Roger Smith Hotel, New York
Jan 8, 2010 - Pendulum III performed by The Kenners: UC San Diego
Dec 4, 2009 - Wet Ink Ensemble at the MOMA: New York
Nov 13, 2009 - Pendulum III performed by The Kenners: Prague, CZ
Nov 10, 2009 - Pendulum IV and Pendulum V performed by The Wet Ink Ensemble: The Tank, New York
Oct 6, 2009 - Poco a Poco performed by the Cairn Ensemble/Talea Ensemble: Paris, FR
Sept 23, 2009 - Wet Ink Ensemble: St Peters Church - Chelsea, New York
July 7-11, 2009 - Wet Ink Ensemble Residency: The Walden School - Dublin, NH
May 1, 2009 - Wet Ink Ensemble: Symphony Space, New York
Jan 31, 2009 - Wet Ink Ensemble: Roulette, New York
Dec 7, 2008 - Knights/Due East: Bargemusic, New York
Dec 6, 2008 - Knights/Due East: Bargemusic, New York
Nov 13, 2008 - Christopher Adler, piano: Palomar College, California
Nov 6, 2008 - Christopher Adler, piano: University of San Diego, California
Oct 15, 2008 - Wet Ink Ensemble: Roulette, New York
Oct 9 and 11, 2008 - Wet Ink Ensemble with the AACM: The Kitchen, New York
Nov 8, 2008 - Ensemble XXI - Radio France/ Presences Festival - Dijon, France
Oct 26, 2008 - Paris Conservatiore, Paris, France
May 29, 2008 - Ian Power Ensemble, San Diego
May 3, 2008 - Wet Ink, St Peters Church, New York
April 26, 2008 - Manhattan School of Music, New York
April 14, 2008 - AMP Ensemble, The Tank, New York
April 10, 2008 - Wet Ink, The Tank, New York
March 27 and 30 - Spotlight interview on the American Music Center's Counterstream Radio
Feb 15, 2008 - Columbia Composers, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York
Jan 12, 2008 - Present Music, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Dec 20, 2007 - SEM Ensemble, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Dec 1, 2007 - Wet Ink, Symphony Space, New York
Nov 12, 2007 - Manhattan School of Music, New York
Nov 5, 2007, Manhattan School of Music, New York
Sept 9, 2007 - Ensemble Cairn - Abbey de Royoumont, France
June 10, 2007 - Musique Demesurees Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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. |