WindSync – Past Concerts
WindSync has established itself as a vibrant chamber ensemble performing wind quintet masterworks, adapting beloved music to their instrumentation, and championing new works by today’s composers. The quintet often eliminates the “fourth wall” between musicians and audience by performing from memory, creating an intimate connection. This personal performance style, combined with the ensemble’s 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. In 2018, they were finalists at the M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition. WindSync has appeared in recital at the Library of Congress, Ravinia, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Their commissions and premieres include The Cosmos, a concerto for wind quintet and orchestra by Pulitzer finalist Michael Gilbertson, and recent works by Ivan Trevino, Marc Mellits, Erberk Eryilmaz, and Akshaya Avril Tucker. Their album, "All Worlds, All Times," was released on Bright Shiny Things in 2022, debuting at no. 2 on the Billboard Traditional Classical charts.
WindSync’s thematic programming responds to the people and places where they work. In their artistic hometown of Houston, they curate a four-concert season and present the Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival each April, spotlighting everyday public spaces as gathering places for culture. The ensemble’s educational work includes tour stops at public schools and ongoing collaborations with the social music programs Sistema Ravinia and Houston Youth Symphony Coda Music Program. WindSync has been featured in educational concerts presented by the Seattle Symphony, the Hobby Center, and Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard, and the ensemble’s concerts for young people reach over 5,000 students per year. In recognition of this work, they are the winners of the 2022 Ann Divine Fischoff Educator Award.
The members of WindSync have led masterclasses at New World Symphony, Eastman School of Music, Florida State University, and Northwestern University, among others. The quintet has also served as Ensemble-in-Residence for the Nevada Chamber Music Festival, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington (KY), the National Museum of Wildlife Art, and the Grand Teton Music Festival.
Chelsea Music Festival: My Super Awesome Brain — The Imagination's Spark Center! | Family Event
Grab your friends, kids, and neighbors and join us at this free, family-friendly gathering at Pier 57, a vibrant communal market space loca…
Free (RSVP required)
Chelsea Music Festival: Connecting the Dots—15th Season Opening Night
$92.55
CMNW: 'Peter & the Wolf' with WindSync
Free
CMNW: 'Peter & the Wolf' with WindSync (Sensory Friendly Concert)
Sergei Prokofiev — Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (arr. for wind quintet)
Unknown — The Moose Song
Valerie Coleman — Umoja
Various — Selected works (TBD)
Free (RSVP required)
CMNW: 'Peter & the Wolf' with WindSync
Free
CMNW: David Ludwig's 'The Anchoress'
Florence Price — Piano Quintet in A minor (1936)
David Serkin Ludwig — The Anchoress (2018)
$32.50-$67.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)
CMNW: David Ludwig's 'The Anchoress'
Florence Price — Piano Quintet in A minor (1936)
David Serkin Ludwig — The Anchoress (2018)
$32.50-$67.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)
CMNW Garden Chamber Party: Sauvie Island Winds w/ WindSync
Pamela and Paul DeBoni share their beautiful garden on Sauvie Island for a very special chamber party featuring WindSync, a wildly popular …
$150
Emerald City Music: Windsync ft. Nathalie Joachim
Akshaya Avril Tucker — Hold Sacred
Marc Mellits — Apollo
Miguel del Águila — Quinteto Sinfónico, Op. 122
Nathalie Joachim — Selected works (new work TBA; world premiere)
Valerie Coleman — Umoja
$30-$40 ($10 student)
Emerald City Music: Windsync ft. Nathalie Joachim
Akshaya Avril Tucker — Hold Sacred
Marc Mellits — Apollo
Miguel del Águila — Quinteto Sinfónico, Op. 122
Nathalie Joachim — Selected works (new work TBA; world premiere)
Valerie Coleman — Umoja
$40-$55 ($10 student)
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: A Windy Day in Paris
$10-$40
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: Children’s Concert – 'Peter and the Wolf'
Free
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: A Windy Day in Paris
$10-$40
Emerald City Music: Series Debut, 'Wanderlust'
Fung – Birdsong for Violin and Piano
Connesson – Techno Parade for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano
Ligeti – Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence for String Sextet
$10-$43
Emerald City Music: Cascade Park Family Concert
Free (Free)
Emerald City Music: Series Debut, 'Wanderlust'
Fung – Birdsong for Violin and Piano
Connesson – Techno Parade for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano
Ligeti – Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence for String Sextet
$45 (includes one drink)