October 2011 Concert

Carol Wincenc, flute

Kenneth Cooper, harpsichord

Sonata in G major, Op. 3, No. 6 — Giovanni Platti (ca. 1700–1763)

Harpsichord solos announced from the stage

Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 — J.S. Bach (1685–1750)

Sonata (per Arpeggione) — Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

Romania! (based on Romanian panpipe tunes) — Daniel Paget (b. 1943)

Program subject to change

 

Sunday, October 16, 2011, 5:30 pm
Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue
(entrance on East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues)

Admission: $20 at the door ($10 for students/seniors);
free to NYFC members
All dates and programs are subject to change.

Carol Wincenc's musicianship is matched by a deep commitment to expanding the flute repertoire. With the Detroit Symphony, she gave the world premiere of a flute concerto written for her by Pulitzer Prize-winner Christopher Rouse. Ms. Wincenc also gave the world premiere of Henryk Gorecki's Concerto-Cantata at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and its U.S. premiere with the Chicago Symphony. Lukas Foss wrote his Renaissance Concerto for her, and she has also premiered concerti by Peter Schickele, Joan Tower, Paul Schoenfield, and Tobias Picker, who composed The Rain In the Trees, a double concerto for Wincenc and soprano Barbara Hendricks.

In the 2009-2010 season, she celebrated her 40th anniversary as a performer with the Carol Wincenc Ruby Anniversary Series, a three-concert series held at Merkin Concert Hall, the Morgan Library & Museum, and the Juilliard School featuring the premieres of six newly-commissioned works by Joan Tower, Jake Heggie, Thea Musgrave, Shih-Hui Chen, Andrea Clearfield, and Jonathan Berger.

Ms. Wincenc has appeared with the St. Louis, Atlanta, and Seattle Symphonies; the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras; and at the Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Caramoor, Marlboro, Sarasota, and Music @ Menlo festivals. Overseas, Ms. Wincenc has given performances with the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, and at the Aldeburgh, Budapest, Tivoli, and Frankfurt international music festivals. As a chamber musician Ms. Wincenc has collaborated with the Guarneri, Emerson, and Tokyo string quartets; sopranos Jessye Norman and Elly Ameling; pianist Emanuel Ax; and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. She is flutist with the New York Woodwind Quintet.

Ms. Wincenc was nominated for a Grammy Award for the 2005 Naxos recording of works by Yehudi Wyner with Richard Stoltzman and other colleagues. Her recording of Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto with Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony (Telarc) won the Diapason d'Or.

Ms. Wincenc is a professor of flute at both the Juilliard School of Music and Stony Brook University. A native of Buffalo, New York, she began studies on the violin at age four and the flute at nine. As a teenager she studied with Italian virtuoso Severino Gazzelloni and then with Robert Willoughby at Oberlin. She also studied with French flute master Marcel Moyse at the Marlboro Music Festival. Her postgraduate studies were at the Manhattan School of Music and at Juilliard under Arthur Lora. Ms. Wincenc was first prize winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition in 1978.