Upcoming Events :
September 24, 2011 - Wilhem Latchoumia will premiere Pendulum 8 for prepared piano at the Abbaye de Royaumont in Paris, France.
September 26, 2011 - Wilhem Latchoumia will perform Pendulum 8 at Thèâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris
October 8, 2011 - Ensemble Linea will perform Poco a Poco at the Strasbourg Musica Festival in Strasbourg, France.
October 9, 2011 - Performing improvised duos with Sam Pluta as part of the New Ideas Music Series XIV at PIANOS, NY.
October 16, 2011 - JACK Quartet will perform String Quartet No. 3 "lift-tilt-filter-split" at Miller Theater in NY.
November 9-16, 2011 - West Coast tour with the Wet Ink Ensemble (pieces TBA).
November 10, 2012 - Stony Brook Contemporary Ensemble will premiere a new work at Staller Center Recital Hall at Stony Brook University, NY.
November 11, 2012 - Stony Brook Contemporary Ensemble will premiere a new work at Symphony Space, NY.
November 12, 2011 - Wilhem Latchoumia will perform Pendulum 8 at Festival Musiques démesurées, Clermont-Ferrand.
November 23, 2011 - Wilhem Latchoumia will perform Pendulum 8 at Salle Jacques Brel, Gonesse, Italy.
December 7-10, 2011 - Residency at Duke University with the Wet Ink Ensemble (pieces TBA).
February 22-25, 2012 - Residency at Duke University with the Wet Ink Ensemble.
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)
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:
Alex was recently honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with a "Charles Ives Scholarship" award.
Alex has been commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for Orpheus Project 440, a collaboration between the orchestra and WQXR celebrating Orpheus's 40th anniversary. Go here to learn more.
Alex's music is featured on two new releases from Carrier Records. Pendulum VI: Trigger is featured on Yarn/Wire's new disc Tone Builders, released last fall. This will be followed by a solo release of his music featuring Due East, Wet Ink, The Kenners, and The JACK Quartet in the fall of this year.
Other recent projects include new works for the Wet Ink Ensemble, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn (in collaboration with Issue Project Room), Le Balcon Ensemble (Paris, France), Ensemble Echoi (Freiburg, Germany) and solo guitar music for Kobe Van Cauwenberghe.