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McGovern Centennial Gardens
Cherie Flores Garden Pavilion (Indoor Event)
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Doors 6:00pm/Event 6:30pm
WindSync returns home to Houston to present their national touring program in a landmark setting. Enjoy McGovern Centennial Gardens by night, enhanced by a curation of music inspired by plants, botany, and taxonomies of nature and music. Featuring Mozart’s Serenade in C minor, a new commission by phenom Viet Cuong and in-house arrangements of music by Dieterich Buxtehude and Leonard Bernstein.
PROGRAM
Dieterich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
W.A. Mozart/arr. Rechtman: Serenade in C minor, K. 388
Viet Cuong: Flora
Leonard Bernstein/arr. LaMoure: Make Our Garden Grow from Candide
Väsen/arr. LaMoure: Botanist Suite
Tickets are $35 General Admission, $20 Patreon Members (limit 5), and $10 Students. A $75 VIP Ticket level is available and includes priority seating and a private reception after the show.
PROGRAM
Dieterich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
W.A. Mozart/arr. Rechtman: Serenade in C minor, K. 388
Viet Cuong: Flora
Leonard Bernstein/arr. LaMoure: Make Our Garden Grow from Candide
Väsen/arr. LaMoure: Botanist Suite
Tickets are $35 General Admission, $20 Patreon Members (limit 5), and $10 Students. A $75 VIP Ticket level is available and includes priority seating and a private reception after the show.
This event is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, Franny's Bartending, and Blueprint Film Company. Our 15th anniversary season is presented with generous support from Texas Commission on the Arts, Mid-America Arts Alliance, and the Huff Foundation.
Location
McGovern Centennial Gardens
Cherie Flores Pavilion 1500 Hermann Drive Houston, TX 77004 Parking Lot C is the closest free parking to the pavilion. Visit Location and Parking Information for more information. Note: This event will be indoors. |
Featured on this program
WindSync, wind quintet
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 charismatic and 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.
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 charismatic and 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.