WindSync has established itself as a vibrant chamber ensemble performing wind quintet masterworks, adapting beloved music to their instrumentation, and championing new works by today’s composers. The quintet breaks down the “fourth wall” between musicians and audience by moving communicatively, speaking from the heart, and often performing from memory, creating an intimate connection. This personal performance style, combined with the ensemble’s three-pronged mission of artistry, education, and community-building, lends WindSync its reputation as “a group of virtuosos who are 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. The ensemble has appeared in recital at some of North America’s best-known venues, including Ravinia, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Strathmore Mansion, and the Library of Congress. Their commissions and premieres include The Cosmos, a concerto for wind quintet and orchestra by Pulitzer finalist Michael Gilbertson, collaborative works for quintet and percussion with Ivan Trevino and Erberk Eryılmaz, and recent works by Mason Bynes and Akshaya Avril Tucker. WindSync’s album All Worlds, All Times was released on Bright Shiny Things in 2022, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard Traditional Classical chart.

WindSync’s thematic programming responds to the people and places where they work. In the members’ artistic hometown of Houston, they curate a concert season and present the Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival, spotlighting everyday public spaces as gathering places for culture. The ensemble’s educational work includes frequent tour stops at public schools and ongoing collaborations with youth music groups, and their concerts for young people reach over 5,000 students per year. In recognition of this work, WindSync was the recipient of the 2022 Fischoff Ann Divine Educator Award.

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