Name: Wet Ink Ensemble Mini-festival: Artists-In-Residence, Soper Album Release
Start: 2024-12-14T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-14T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Dixon Place

Wet Ink Ensemble Mini-festival: Artists-In-Residence, Soper Album Release

Wet Ink celebrates the work of AIRs Carolyn Chen, Gelsey Bell, and Ben LaMar Gay, and the release of Kate Soper's opera at Dixon Place
About this Event

Tickets: $20 suggested / pay what you can - Get a bundled Festival Pass for $30 - Click ticketing button and you will be presented with options for individual set tickets and festival pass.

Please join us for two sets of adventurous music on December 14th, 2024 at Dixon Place! The concerts will feature the work of 2024-25 Artists-In-Residence (AIRs) Gelsey Bell, Carolyn Chen, and Ben LaMar Gay, plus works by Raven Chacon, Sam Pluta, and Kate Soper.

The first set, at 6:00 P.M., will feature two works by AIR Caroline Chen which highlight the breadth of her artistry, from chamber music to text and movement, and will celebrate the release of Kate Soper’s album The Romance of the Rose (New Focus Recordings) with performances of excerpts from the opera.

The second set, at 8:00 P.M., includes solo performances by AIRs Gelsey Bell (vocals) and Ben LaMar Gay (cornet), Raven Chacon’s shimmering chamber work Biyan I, and Sam Pluta’s Systems of Interaction I, which will feature the Wet Ink band performing alongside Bell and LaMar Gay.

Between sets and afterward the audience is invited to hang out with the performers at the Dixon Place Lounge.

PROGRAMS:

First Set (6:00 P.M.)

Kate Soper: Lady Reason Suite, for voice, piano, vocoder keyboard, and electronics

Carolyn Chen: Birria (2021), for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano

Kate Soper: Shame, for voice and electric guitar

Carolyn Chen: Introducing Object (2018), for speaker and object

Kate Soper: Rondeau, for soprano and violin

Second Set (8:00 P.M.)

Ben LaMar Gay: Solo (2024), for cornet

Raven Chacon: Biyan I (2011), for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and percussion

Gelsey Bell: Solo, for voice and daxophone