BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Acme Widgets\, Inc.//NONSGML ExportToCalendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Groupmuses near X-WR-NAME:Groupmuses near BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260715T011315Z UID:67292434-1b5c-4459-9544-6e9217fac15a DTSTART:20260218T000000Z DTEND:20260218T023000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jonathan D.\nMusicians: Min Young Kang\, Graeme Steel e Johnson\, Kara LaMoure\, and Noah Kay\n\n7 PM Doors & Pre-Reception\n8 P M Recital\n9:30 PM Post-Reception\n\n_____\n\n**WindSync: Echoes Carried O n**\n\n[Gotham Arts](https://gothamarts.net) in collaboration with [Kallos Chamber Music Series](https://www.kalloscms.org/) and [Groupmuse](https:/ /www.groupmuse.com/) is delighted to present **Echoes Carried On**\, an in timate private chamber music performance by wind quintet [WindSync](https: //www.windsync.org/) featuring an evocative program that traces waves of i magination\, memory\, and longing. Known for embracing both the classics a nd contemporary repertoire with fresh sensibility\, WindSync brings storyt elling to the forefront. From Nadia Boulanger’s refined lyricism to Aksh aya Avril Tucker’s meditative What Will You Hold\, the program reflects the enduring imprint of voice\, story\, and connection through works by Mo zart\, Carter\, and Glass.\n\nWine will be served.\n\n**Program**\n\nNADIA BOULANGER (arr. Kara LaMoure) Trois pièces\n\nAKSHAYA AVRIL TUCKER Wha t will you hold\n\nELLIOTT CARTER Quintet (1948)\n\nPHILIP GLASS (arr. Ka ra LaMoure) Etude No. 17\n\nMOZART (arr. Rechtman) Serenade in c minor\, K. 388\n\n_____\n\n**About the Artists**\n\n[Watch WindSync perform Mozar t's Serenade in c minor\, K. 388 (arr. Rechtman)](https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZYU5O88weG8)\n\nThe wind quintet **WindSync** embraces the classi cs and the growing contemporary repertoire with a fresh sensibility. Versa tile and vibrant\, the group plays “many idioms authoritatively\, elegan tly\, with adroit technique\, and with great fun” (All About the Arts). In the span of one performance\, they can cover vast musical ground from r evitalized standards to freshly inked works to folk and songbook\, the com mon thread telling a compelling story about music history and our human se lves.\n\nWindSync frequently eliminates the “fourth wall” between musi cians and audience by performing from memory\, creating an extraordinary c onnection. That 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 won derful people\, too” (Alison Young\, Classical MPR).\n\nHighlights of Wi ndSync’s 2024-25 season include a weeklong residency at Ravinia’s Benn ett Gordon Hall series\, Chicago\; a weeklong residency at Shelter Island Friends of Music\, New York\; performances at Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society with pianist Jon Kimura Parker\; Harvard Musical Association\, Ca mbridge\, MA\; the University of Vermont Lane Series\, Burlington\; Chambe r Music Kelowna\, British Columbia\; Chamber Music Raleigh\, NC\; and a re turn to Chamber Music Northwest and Emerald City Music\, in Seattle and Po rtland\, for community residencies. The group celebrated its 15th annivers ary season in 2023-24\, with performances in New York City (Chelsea Music Festival)\, Houston\, Miami\, Portland\, Phoenix\, Charleston\, Rochester\ , Syracuse\, and Santa Rosa\, among other cities.\n\nWindSync has enjoyed an international touring career since winning the 2012 Concert Artists Gui ld Victor Elmaleh Competition and the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. They continued as prize winners at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition. In its 16-year history\, the group has regularly appeare d on notable stages throughout the United States and abroad\, including We ill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall\, the Library of Congress\, Ravinia\, Me tropolitan Museum of Art\, Phoenix Chamber Music Society\, Rockport Music\ , and Emerald City Music. The quintet has also shared the stage with such distinguished artists as David Shifrin\, Jon Kimura Parker and Alessio Bax \, among many others.\n\nBuilding a new repertoire that is driven by purpo se and growing from close collaboration\, WindSync’s recent projects inc lude Rise by Shawn Okpebholo\, commissioned by a consortium of prominent A merican orchestras and wind quintets\, Stumble\, Fall\, Fly by Nathalie Jo achim\, commissioned by Emerald City Music and Schneider Concerts\, and A Night at Birdland by Nicky Sohn\, commissioned with support from the Chels ea Music Festival. Other premieres include a concerto for wind quintet and orchestra by Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gilbertson\, a Paul Lansky c ommission premiered at the Library of Congress with support from the Chamb er Music Society of Lincoln Center\, and works by Ivan Trevino\, Marc Mell its\, and Viet Cuong. \n\nWindSync regularly coaches at universities and c onservatories\, including New World Symphony\, Eastman School of Music\, F rost School of Music\, and the University of Texas. Winner of the 2022 Fis choff Ann Divine Educator Award\, WindSync collaborates with youth orchest ras\, coaches at pre-college music programs\, and performs for thousands o f young people each year. The group has performed educational programs pre sented by the Seattle Symphony and by pianist Orli Shaham. \n\nAlso in dem and for its ability to embed in communities\, WindSync has served in resid encies with the Grand Teton Music Festival\, Orcas Island Chamber Music Fe stival\, Chamber Music Northwest\, and the Lied Center. WindSync is a 501( c)3 non-profit organization\, presenting programming in its artistic homet own of Houston\, Texas. WindSync’s Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festiv al has been connecting Houston’s people and places through music since i ts inception in 2017. Festival partners include the Houston Youth Symphony and the Center for Performing Arts Medicine.\n\nOn the heels of “All Wo rlds\, All Times\,” WindSync’s 2022 release that “will make you want to get up and dance” (The Whole Note)\, the quintet released its second commercial album\, featuring the works of Miguel Del Aguila and recorded in Studio Two at the legendary Abbey Road Studios\, to a number 1 debut on the Billboard Traditional Classical chart in 2024. LOCATION:Flatiron\, New York SUMMARY:WindSync: Echoes Carried On URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/15912-windsync-echoes-carried-on END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR