A wind quintet that crashes through stylistic boundaries with ease, WindSync have delighted audiences with their charismatic and engaging performances for over ten years. From progressive new works to revitalized standard repertoire to folk and American Songbook, WindSync covers vast musical ground for a thrilling concert experience.
Versatile and vibrant, the musicians of WindSync “play many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun” (All About the Arts), showing off the uniquely wide-ranging sonorities of the wind quintet. The group’s personal performance style, combined with a three-pronged mission of artistry, education, and community-building, lends WindSync its reputation as ”a group of virtuosos who are also wonderful people, too” (Alison Young, Classical MPR).
WindSync launched an international touring career after winning the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. WindSync has appeared in concert at Ravinia, the Met Museum, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, the Library of Congress, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Building a new repertoire driven by purpose and growing from close collaboration, WindSync’s recent premieres include works by Marc Mellits, Ivan Trevino, Mason Bynes, Nathalie Joachim, and Pulitzer finalist Michael Gilbertson.
In demand for their ability to embed in communities, WindSync has served in residencies with the Grand Teton Music Festival, Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, and the Lied Center. Winner of the 2022 Fischoff Ann Divine Educator Award, the ensemble regularly coaches at training programs nationwide, collaborates with youth orchestras, and performs for thousands of young people each year. On the heels of “All Worlds, All Times,” WindSync’s Billboard chart-topping 2022 release that “will make you want to get up and dance” (The Whole Note), the quintet’s second commercial album, recorded with composer Miguel del Aguila at Abbey Road Studios, releases in 2024.
PROGRAM
BUXTEHUDE: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
W.A. Mozart/arr. Rechtman: Serenade in C minor, K. 388
Allegro
Andante
Menuetto in canone
Allegro
-intermission-
RAMEAU/arr. LaMoure: Pastoral Suite
Le Rappel des Oiseaux (The Calling of Birds)
Musette & Tambourin
Les Tourbillons (The Whirlwinds)
The Arts and the Hours
Contredanse Très Vive
MARC MELLITS: Apollo
Theia
Sea of Tranquility
Buzz
Luna Nova
Debbie Waltzing on the Moon
One Small Step
Moonwalk
Free, reservations encouraged.
Thank you to our Education & Community Engagement 2023-24 Corporate Partner!
