15th Anniversary Concert
Rice University Shepherd School of Music
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Doors 2:30pm/Concert 3:00pm
WindSync alumni Tracy Viner, Jack Marquardt, Erin Tsai, Julian Hernandez
WindSync’s Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival invites you to celebrate the 15th anniversary of WindSync where it all began! WindSync musicians from founding to present reunite at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in their first concert at Duncan Hall since the graduation of the original student members. Guest performers for this special program of wind chamber music include alums Tracy Viner, Jack Marquardt, Erin Tsai, and Julian Hernandez.
Tickets are $15 General Admission, FREE for children under 10, students, teachers, as well as Rice students, faculty, and alumni.
RSVP required.
This concert has been generously underwritten by Paula Sanders.
Tickets are $15 General Admission, FREE for children under 10, students, teachers, as well as Rice students, faculty, and alumni.
RSVP required.
This concert has been generously underwritten by Paula Sanders.
Location
Rice University - Shepherd School of Music
Duncan Recital Hall 6100 Main St Houston, TX 77005 Paid visitor parking is available in West Lot 2 on the campus map, payable by credit card only. |
Featured on this program
WindSync Alumni
Tracy Viner, WindSync bassoonist 2009-2016
Jack Marquardt, WindSync clarinetist 2012-2016
Erin Tsai, WindSync oboist 2012-2015
Julian Hernandez, WindSync clarinetist 2016-2021
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.
Tracy Viner, WindSync bassoonist 2009-2016
Jack Marquardt, WindSync clarinetist 2012-2016
Erin Tsai, WindSync oboist 2012-2015
Julian Hernandez, WindSync clarinetist 2016-2021
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.