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September 29, 2018 at 8pm
Miller Outdoor Theatre
This is a ticketed event for the covered seating area. Free tickets are available (4 per person over age 16 while they last) at the Miller Outdoor Theatre box office the day of the performance between the hours of 10:30 AM-1:00 PM. If tickets remain at 1:00 PM, the box office will re-open one hour before show time to distribute the remaining tickets. As always, seating is free an open to the public on the hill. The shows goes on rain or shine.
Premiere of Indie Songs by Ivan Trevino:
A new work for amplified wind quintet and percussion
A new work for amplified wind quintet and percussion
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Houston’s wind quintet WindSync welcomes Austin drummer Ivan Trevino for a new collaboration of acoustic instrumental music inspired by indie rock. WindSync is a band of five virtuoso players of the flute, oboe, clarinet, french horn, and bassoon who have developed a national reputation for their “savvy, smarts, and sass,” and Ivan Trevino is an award-winning composer, percussionist, and drummer with the band Break of Reality. Music includes feature performances by WindSync and Trevino, covers of songs by Radiohead, Sigur Ros, and Son Lux, and a brand new set of music by Trevino written especially for this collaboration.
Ivan’s piece will be a multi-movement work, and each short movement will feature a different timbral mix of percussion plus winds—completely new sounds for the tradition of the wind quintet. Each instrument will be amplified, allowing us to take the piece to “untraditional” venues without worrying about acoustic challenges. The premiere concert will also feature Ivan as a soloist and WindSync performing original music by quintet members. The resulting project will be scalable for touring and will be the focus of a future WindSync recording.
The setting of the new work’s premiere is key to its origin story. Miller Outdoor Theatre, located in 445-acre Hermann Park near downtown Houston, offers an 8-month season of professional entertainment free of charge to the public. This makes it the largest “always free” program of its kind in the country and provides an ideal venue for assembling young WindSync fans who might see themselves in the origin stories of the musicians onstage. Through our continuing relationship with the Houston Youth Symphony (HYS), we have become friends and mentors to the Sistema-inspired Coda Music Program in Houston’s Near Northside neighborhood, and these students will receive a VIP field trip invitation to this concert. We will also invite students from the HYS chamber music program and beneficiaries of the Music & Instrument Fund for Harvey Victims to be featured in a pre-concert performance.
Ivan’s piece will be a multi-movement work, and each short movement will feature a different timbral mix of percussion plus winds—completely new sounds for the tradition of the wind quintet. Each instrument will be amplified, allowing us to take the piece to “untraditional” venues without worrying about acoustic challenges. The premiere concert will also feature Ivan as a soloist and WindSync performing original music by quintet members. The resulting project will be scalable for touring and will be the focus of a future WindSync recording.
The setting of the new work’s premiere is key to its origin story. Miller Outdoor Theatre, located in 445-acre Hermann Park near downtown Houston, offers an 8-month season of professional entertainment free of charge to the public. This makes it the largest “always free” program of its kind in the country and provides an ideal venue for assembling young WindSync fans who might see themselves in the origin stories of the musicians onstage. Through our continuing relationship with the Houston Youth Symphony (HYS), we have become friends and mentors to the Sistema-inspired Coda Music Program in Houston’s Near Northside neighborhood, and these students will receive a VIP field trip invitation to this concert. We will also invite students from the HYS chamber music program and beneficiaries of the Music & Instrument Fund for Harvey Victims to be featured in a pre-concert performance.
