Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: A Windy Day in Paris
$10-$40
Camille Saint-Saëns — Septet in E-flat major Op. 65
Jacques Offenbach — Le voyage dans la lune
Lili Boulanger — Two Pieces for Violin and Piano (Deux Morceaux)
Various — Voyager Golden Record Suite arr. WindSync
Jean Françaix — Les petits nerveux
WindSync — Selected works
Francis Poulenc — Selected works
Jacques Offenbach (arr. WindSync) – Overture to A Trip to the Moon
Lili Boulanger – Deux Morceaux for violin and piano
(arr. WindSync) – Voyager Golden Record Suite
Sergei Prokofiev (arr. Trevor Cramer) – Peter and the Wolf
Camille Saint-Saëns – Septet for piano, trumpet, and strings
Francis Poulenc – Sextet for winds and piano
Jean Françaix – Les petits nerveux ("Nervous Children")
Bonjour! Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival takes a trip to France and features a cavalcade of wind instruments playing music filled with color and imagery. You’ll have a chance to revisit your childhood with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and we’ll even take you to outer space!
Artists include WindSync, Robyn Bollinger, Jon Kimura Parker, David Washburn, Carmit Zori, Toby Hoffman, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, and David Grossman.
About WindSync
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.
http://www.windsync.org/