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Saturday, September 29, 2018
Miller Outdoor Theatre
Premiere of a new work for amplified wind quintet and percussion
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As our 10th anniversary season approaches, we at WindSync are excited to share an upcoming collaboration with percussionist Ivan Trevino, scheduled for fall 2018 at the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston, Texas. Ivan will write a new work for amplified wind quintet and multi percussion, and he will join us for the premiere in a shared concert.
The theme for our 2018-2019 season, “Origin Stories,” holds deep and broad meaning for us as we reflect on 10 years as an ensemble embedded in the Houston community. Our programming will explore ideas of heritage, childhood, heroes, history, and storytelling. It is our hope that our audience, particularly within the cultural diversity of the Houston area, will be able to find a reflection of themselves, pieces of their own personal stories and dreams for the future. Relating to music in this way has become ever more important in the last few months as Hurricane Harvey has hit the reset button for so many families across our city.
With an interest in programming music by Texans, for Texans, we immediately put Ivan at the top of our collaborator wish list. Having grown up in South Texas, Ivan can relate to the love of Tex Mex food, fierce independence, and swampy heat that informs our audience. On his blog, Ivan has written about his childhood in Victoria, his mother’s life as a Mexican immigrant, and his influential teachers. We have been moved by his openness in sharing his musical origin stories, and we can’t wait to hear how he writes to this theme.
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.
The theme for our 2018-2019 season, “Origin Stories,” holds deep and broad meaning for us as we reflect on 10 years as an ensemble embedded in the Houston community. Our programming will explore ideas of heritage, childhood, heroes, history, and storytelling. It is our hope that our audience, particularly within the cultural diversity of the Houston area, will be able to find a reflection of themselves, pieces of their own personal stories and dreams for the future. Relating to music in this way has become ever more important in the last few months as Hurricane Harvey has hit the reset button for so many families across our city.
With an interest in programming music by Texans, for Texans, we immediately put Ivan at the top of our collaborator wish list. Having grown up in South Texas, Ivan can relate to the love of Tex Mex food, fierce independence, and swampy heat that informs our audience. On his blog, Ivan has written about his childhood in Victoria, his mother’s life as a Mexican immigrant, and his influential teachers. We have been moved by his openness in sharing his musical origin stories, and we can’t wait to hear how he writes to this theme.
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.