IWCMF: Sugar Hill Salon & Imani Winds

Concert featuring Imani Winds and artists from the Sugar Hill Salon Chamber Music series.

All IWCMF concerts are free with a suggested donation and open to the general public. All other events are open to auditor guest pass holders, full session auditors, and participants only.

About Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival

Imani Winds Chamber Music festival is an intense summer program devoted to performance excellence and career development. The festival came about after many invitations to give masterclasses and career lectures around the country. Imani Winds realized the need to extend the time they devoted to passing on their experience as leaders in the chamber music community. This, with the ability to invite their esteemed colleagues and mentors, has helped shape what has become a highly successful New York City summer institute and festival.

About Imani Winds

Celebrating over a quarter century of music making, the twice Grammy-nominated Imani Winds has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations, and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

The ensemble's playlist embraces traditional chamber music repertoire and newly commissioned works from voices that reflect historical events and the times in which we currently live.

About Sugar Hill Salon Chamber Music

Sugar Hill Salon is one of the first chamber music series and artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music. We are a black- and queer-owned organization that offers free public concerts in Harlem that showcase wind repertoire that lacks representation within "traditional" chamber programming along with uplifting black and brown musicians performing them. Through commissioning chamber works and monthly concerts featuring artists on the scene, Sugar Hill Salon is decolonizing classical music for a more equitable future for black and brown communities.