Taking Wing
Memorial Classical Music Series
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Doors Open 7:00pm for potluck and food and drinks
Music begins 7:45pm
with pianist Yvonne Chen
Begin your season with the opportunity to connect with WindSync in a casual social setting! In this house concert, part of the Memorial Classical Music Series, WindSync joins pianist Yvonne Chen for Mozart’s Quintet in E-flat for piano and winds, K. 452. Mozart declared this breakthrough work “the best I have ever composed!” upon its premiere in 1784, and it would influence his approach to orchestration and publishing for the rest of his career.
PROGRAM:
Miguel del Aguila: Quinteto Sinfónico
Alexander Liebermann: Quaraçá
Zequinha de Abreu/arr. Tarkmann: Tico tico no fubá
W. A. Mozart: Quintet in E-flat, K. 452
Admission is FREE, with a $35 suggested donation accepted at the door. Food and drink is included.
Due to limited seating, reservations through EventBrite are required.
PROGRAM:
Miguel del Aguila: Quinteto Sinfónico
Alexander Liebermann: Quaraçá
Zequinha de Abreu/arr. Tarkmann: Tico tico no fubá
W. A. Mozart: Quintet in E-flat, K. 452
Admission is FREE, with a $35 suggested donation accepted at the door. Food and drink is included.
Due to limited seating, reservations through EventBrite are required.
Location
Home of Jason Herbst
330 Tynebrook Lane Houston, TX 77024 More parking information forthcoming. |
Featured on this program
Yvonne Chen, pianist
Taiwanese-American pianist Yvonne Chen performs across the US as a solo recitalist and a chamber musician. Recent collaborators and presenters include Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, WindSync, MUSIQA, Performing Arts Houston, Music in Context, DACAMERA, and Houston Chamber Choir. In Houston, upon receiving the 2017 Presser Graduate Music Award at Rice University, she co-founded Loop38, whose concerts have been featured in Houstonia Magazine, Houston CityBook, Arts and Culture TX, and the Houston Chronicle. Originally from the Washington, DC area, Chen received degrees in piano performance from the Juilliard School and graduated with a doctoral degree from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in December 2019. Chen has recently formed Pipe and Key, a piano-organ duo with organist Yuri McCoy, and has been on the piano faculty of St. John's School since 2017.
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.