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  Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet: Musicians
The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin) was founded in 1988, during the era of Herbert von Karajan, the first permanently established wind quintet in the famous orchestra's rich tradition of chamber music.
The ensemble's commitment to the wind quintet repertoire is passionate and in 1991 they found the perfect partner for their recording plans, the Swedish company BIS Records, already well known in its own right for its uncompromising standards.
In recent years the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet have intensified their teaching and coaching roles with youth; they give chamber music workshops and instrumental instruction in many countries, with a particular commitment, for example, to the youth orchestra programme of Venezuela.
www.windquintet.com /en/musicians   (404 words)

  
 Wind quintet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon).
The modern wind quintet sprang from the ensemble favored in the court of Joseph II in late 18th century Vienna: 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 oboes, and 2 bassoons.
However, it was Antoine Reicha's 24 quintets, begun in 1811, and the 9 quintets of Franz Danzi that established the genre, and their pieces are still standards of the repertoire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wind_quintet   (262 words)

  
 The Prague Wind Quintet
The original quintet was established in 1928 by the oboist and long-time permanent conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra Vaclav Smetacek (1906-1986).
The quintet gives definitive interpretations of all the classics of the literature, but contemporary music forms a significant part of its repetoire, because composers have written many compositions for them after hearing one of their performances.
She is hornist and manager of both the Prague Wind Quintet and the reknowned Czech Nonet.
saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /featured_artists/prague_quintet.html   (491 words)

  
 Borealis Wind Quintet - Recordings
The title of Eric Ewazen's 1994 wind quintet implies a sort of new-agey, National Geographic kind of sensibility, and at first listen this impression seemed to be confirmed.
The Borealis Quintet has been on the scene for quite a while, and their playing is stellar-warm, vivacious, and richly vibrant.
The Borealis Wind Quintet is first rate...gentle and agile...boisterous or loving The whole recording is the stuff dreams are made of.
www.borealiswindquintet.com /recordings.htm   (1252 words)

  
 The Dorian Wind Quintet; Dorian Woodwind Quintet
The Dorian Wind Quintet wishes to thank the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts for their continuing support!
The Dorian Wind Quintet is pleased to welcome two new members, bassoonist John Hunt and hornist Karl Kramer-Johanson.
We are pleased to announce that the Dorian Wind Quintet was awarded a $12,000 matching grant for a residency in New Mexico.
dorianwindquintet.org   (285 words)

  
 Slowind Wind Quintet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The quintet is made up of many rounded units; the mosaic of “events” is in some parts noticeably contrasting, while in other parts, very motivically coherent.
A homogenous ensemble sound, a “longing for consonance”, a unity of expression, complex counterpoint and a complex formal structure – everything that is common, and usually successful in compositions for string quartet – are, in the case of the wind quintet, less essential.
The quintet’s repertoire includes the (rare) good compositions from the classical and romantic periods, but most of the ensemble’s attention is focused on works of the 20th and 21st centuries.
home.interlog.com /~nmc/02_Slowind.html   (2136 words)

  
 Quintet of the Americas - What the Critics say
They are evocations of the life of birds that avoid any Messiaenic overtones while extending the wind quintet’s expressive range, again in a quiet way.
The Quintet of the Americas strikes the right tone, and Barbara Oldham’s horn playing is a perfect, hypersensitive match for Husa’s eloquent writing in the Interlude here, and everywhere on the disc..
This is a wonderful group of musicians with wonderful tone, great ensemble (going beyond the ordinary definition of the word to more 'conceptual' aspects for those pieces to which they contribute their own creative ideas), and interest in a wide range of styles.
www.quintet.org /critics.html   (471 words)

  
 The Wind Quintet in Canada: Legacy and Promise
Professional ensembles were formed introducing the wind quintet repertoire to a wider audience through concerts, radio broadcasts, and commercial recordings.
The Toronto Woodwind Quintet took part in several of the acclaimed Ten Centuries Concerts in Toronto, spent a week performing at the Canadian Government Pavilion at Expo '67, and was among the first ensembles to participate in the TSO-sponsored Prelude Concerts for school Children.
Brass quintets, unlike woodwind quintets, have long found ways to expand their repertoires, often through arrangements of works for other mediums and by exploring and exploiting popular styles and genres.
www.discourses.ca /v4n2a3.html   (2221 words)

  
 Annotated Bibliography of Double Wind Quintet Music
Sometimes the ten wind players function as two separate wind quintets, one group echoing the other's phrases or adding colour to a particular moment in a paragraph.
Composed for the Northern Chamber Orchestra 1983 and revised in 1995.
One quintet need to be in the same room as the audience, and the other outside the room, but audible to the audience.
faculty.washington.edu /gerhart/dwqbibliography   (10190 words)

  
 Dorian Wind Quintet News
The Dorian Wind Quintet is pleased to welcome two new members, bassoonist John Hunt and hornist Karl Kramer-Johanson.
We are pleased to announce that the Dorian Wind Quintet was awarded a $12,000 matching grant for a residency in New Mexico.
We are pleased to announce that the Dorian Wind Quintet has been awarded a $12,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
www.dorianwindquintet.org /news.html   (431 words)

  
 WGTE Public Broadcasting in Northwest Ohio
For thirty-five years the Toledo Wind Quintet has represented The University of Toledo Department of Music and Dance in performances throughout Ohio and Michigan: in public school band rooms; on the UT campus; on college campuses, and in communities throughout Ohio.
Members of the quintet perform as principals and members of the Toledo Symphony and in many of the most respected musical organizations in the region, including the Detroit Symphony, the Columbus Symphony, and the Michigan Opera Orchestra.
Alan Taplin is instructor of horn and performs in the UT faculty brass and woodwind quintets.
www.wgte.org /fmlive/windquintet.asp   (816 words)

  
 NPR: Performance Today -- Live in Studio 4A -- Dorian Wind Quintet
After 40 fruitful years with the Dorian Wind Quintet, founding member bassoonist Jane Taylor has decided that it's time for her to step down.
The Quintet has appeared at numerous festivals including the INternational Festival in Warsaw, the Stravinsky Festival at Lincoln Center, Caramoor Festival, Newberry Spring Festival in Britain, Stratford Festival in Ontario, San Luis Obispo Festival, New American Music Festival in Sacramento, and was in-residence at Dartington Hall (1984) and Newberry (1990) in England, and Tanglewood (2001).
The Dorian Wind Quintet has served as the resident ensemble for several institutions including the Mannes College of Music, Brooklyn College and the State University of New York System.
www.npr.org /programs/pt/4a/dorian.html   (410 words)

  
 Woodwind Quintet 04 event
Nielsen’s 1922 Wind Quintet is a particularly pleasing element in the wind chamber music repertoire, of greater interest than the composer’s earlier string quartets.
The Wind Quintet was first performed at a private musical evening on April 30, 1922, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Her musical tastes are wide-ranging and, because her interests are equally diverse, she composes fast and furiously either as inspiration strikes, or under specified commission, with an eye always to encapsulating the essence of the energies she aspires to communicate with humor and truth.
www.augustanaarts.org /WoodwindQuintet04event.htm   (1520 words)

  
 Timm Wind Quintet
The Timm Wind Quintet enjoys a tradition of nearly half a century of superb music making and wind teaching through its continuing residency at the Louisiana State University School of Music.
Individually and collectively hailed as extraordinarily gifted performers, the Timm Wind Quintet also incorporates guest artists, creating concerts with a variety of textures and sounds, from solo repertoire through large ensemble works, from music of the Renaissance to that of our own time.
With their broad range of performance and teaching experience, the Timm Wind Quintet is uniquely suited to offer residencies and master classes in a variety of settings on a wide range of topics.
www.music.lsu.edu /ensembles/facensemble/timmwind.htm   (233 words)

  
 West Point Wind Quintet
The West Point Woodwind Quintet of the United States Military Academy Band is made up of members of the Concert Band.
In support of military requirements, the quintet has entertained the United States Corps of Cadets and performed for many visiting dignitaries and heads of state.
The West Point Woodwind Quintet has been a staple ensemble for many years, and continues to be an important musical emissary of the Academy Band and the United States Army.
www.usma.army.mil /band/ensembles/wpwq.htm   (752 words)

  
 Academy Wind Quintet
The Academy Wind Quintet presents a varied and colorful program of virtuoso chamber music for winds, featuring repertoire ranging from the late eighteenth century courts of Europe to the contemporary masters of the twentieth century.
The members of the quintet are committed to bringing a wide variety of musical styles to their programs, including turn-of-the-century waltzes, popular music and educational works like Peter and the Wolf.
SFC Parrette is a founding member of the Academy Wind Quintet and the Academy Clarinet Quartet.
www.usma.edu /Band/ensembles/awq.htm   (781 words)

  
 Wind Quintet
Contact Us Classical Elegance also performs as a woodwind quintet with the addition of Fatma Daglar, oboe, and Anthony Valerio, french horn.
The quintet performs for concerts and recitals for many events, which include music festivals, public concerts/recitals, and school events.
Daglar received a Bachelor's Degree from the Istanbul Conservatory of Music and was awarded a scholarship from the Turkish Education Foundation to study in the United States where she acquired a Master's Degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma in Oboe Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
www.classicalelegance.com /Wind_Quintet/wind_quintet.html   (396 words)

  
 Linos Wind Quintet - UK Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Formed in 2001, whilst its members were studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the ensemble won the Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Prize, which was shortly followed by a tour to Milan.
The Quintet have recently returned from a very successful tour of Australia, which included performances in Darwin, Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle and Melbourne, as well as a live ABC radio broadcast.
In 2001 he won the GSMD Needlemakers Wind Prize as well as being awarded the Clarinet Prize at the Blackpool Woodwind Competition.
www.musiciansgallery.com /start/chamber/linos_wind_quintet.html   (698 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mozart: Oboe Quartet; Horn Quintet; Piano and Wind Quintet: Music: Gaudier Ensemble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mozart: Oboe Quartet; Horn Quintet; Piano and Wind Quintet
Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn & bassoon in E flat major, K. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The soloists in these numbers -- the Oboe Quintet K. 370, Horn Quintet K. 407, Quintet fragment K. 580b, and the famous Piano and Wind Quintet, K. 452 -- all play with a fruity but elegant pursuit of Mozart's creations.
www.amazon.com /Mozart-Quartet-Quintet-Piano-Wind/dp/B00005RT4F   (792 words)

  
 The Harbinger. Modern Composers. January 19, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Containing three wind quintets written between 1984 and 1994 by three different composers, the album is a fine sample of new wind ensemble work.
Steinmetz, who also lives and works in southern California, is himself a bassoonist, but this Quintet proves that he appreciates and knows how to take full advantage of the full range of all the instruments in the wind quintet.
You can hear the Borealis Quintet perform Quintet by John Steinmetz on WHIL- FM (91.3) Thursday, January 21 at 7:00 as part of their weekly series of music from after 1950.
www.theharbinger.org /xvii/990119/forbus.html   (445 words)

  
 Nora Lee Garcia: Flute Studies at the University of Central Florida
It is the resident wind quintet of the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, where the players are faculty members of the Department of Music.
In addition to playing in the Quintet and performing solo recitals, the players are also active as orchestral performers, with groups such as the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Winter Park Bach Festival Orchestra, and the Florida Orchestra.
For more information about the Pegasus Wind Quintet, please contact Keith Koons, Department of Music, P. Box 161354, Orlando FL 32816-1354; telephone (407)823-5116; email kkoons@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu.
www.cas.ucf.edu /music/flute/pegasus_wind_quintet.php   (300 words)

  
 Solstice Wind Quintet
The Solstice Wind Quintet annually appears in schools and communities throughout the Northwest.
In this CD, reverberation and some ambient sound was filtered “so all of the pieces sound as though they were recorded in the same place at the same time,” explained Jim Schoepflin, the quintet’s clarinet player.
The quintet selected pieces that are interesting to a general audience.
www.class.uidaho.edu /uibassoon/solstice.htm   (186 words)

  
 Anton Reicha and the Wind Quintet: Saint Paul Sunday feature
Reicha composed often for the wind quintet, beginning with a piece he wrote in 1811 in Paris and continuing through the rest of his years to 1836.
While this is not the polytonality of the French composers of the 20th century such as Poulenc and Milhaud, Reicha's concept, for example, of a string quartet playing in G major while a wind quartet played in E minor, was highly original.
He was welcomed in the most important artistic and literary salons, and one can find passages in the French novelists of the time that mention listening to Reicha's wind quintets.
saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /features/9910_reicha/index.shtml   (732 words)

  
 Quintet of the Americas - Concerts
The Quintet of the Americas is honored to be playing again this year for the 9/11 memorial at Gound Zero in New York.
The Quintet of the Americas members are flutist Sato Moughalian, oboist Matt Sullivan, clarinetist Edward Gilmore, hornist Barbara Oldham and bassoonist Laura Koepke.
Quintet of the Americas is in residence in The Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.
www.quintet.org /concerts.html   (1271 words)

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