Arts and Culture Texas: WindSync turns 15: How does the Garden Grow?
Back in 2009, the music entrepreneurship movement was gathering steam and start-up ensembles were popping up everywhere. WindSync was one of them, and it immediately stood out with its innovative style. The nascent wind quintet, formed at Rice University’s Shepherd School, sought to challenge convention and engage audiences in a radically different way. They played in a standing position, often from memory, eliminating the music stand that separated performer and audience, thereby fostering an intimate environment where direct communication and engagement is not only possible but inevitable.
Arts and Culture Texas
By Sherry Cheng
Back in 2009, the music entrepreneurship movement was gathering steam and start-up ensembles were popping up everywhere. WindSync was one of them, and it immediately stood out with its innovative style. The nascent wind quintet, formed at Rice University’s Shepherd School, sought to challenge convention and engage audiences in a radically different way. They played in a standing position, often from memory, eliminating the music stand that separated performer and audience, thereby fostering an intimate environment where direct communication and engagement is not only possible but inevitable.
On and off the stage, the ensemble was interested in bringing chamber music for winds to the audience through inventive and interactive concert experiences. “These days we call it education and outreach,” explains Kara LaMoure, WindSync’s Artistic Director and bassoonist. “But basically they [the founding members] wanted to learn to communicate musical concepts to young people, and they wanted to have theatrical elements in the performance.”
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Houston Chronicle: Houston's Windsync quintet brings back multi-site music fest that begins Tuesday
Playing more than 100 dates out of town each year has taken Windsync to some interesting places, but it’s hard to beat where the Houston-based wind quintet found themselves last November. They checked into London’s Abbey Road Studios to record an album of pieces by Seattle-based composer Miguel del Aguila, which the group hopes to release later this year.
It was a little like recording in a museum, explains bassoonist and artistic director Kara LaMoure.
Houston Chronicle
By Chris Gray
Playing more than 100 dates out of town each year has taken Windsync to some interesting places, but it’s hard to beat where the Houston-based wind quintet found themselves last November. They checked into London’s Abbey Road Studios to record an album of pieces by Seattle-based composer Miguel del Aguila, which the group hopes to release later this year.
It was a little like recording in a museum, explains bassoonist and artistic director Kara LaMoure.
Read more here.