To start off the 2023-2024 concert season, Patagonia Winds offers a program of toe-tapping inspiration from around the world.
From Respighi to Coleman, Delibes to d’Rivera, and Texas Two Step to Klezmer dances, this rousing, tuneful concert will enliven your weekend and send you home humming!
Sunday, October 22nd at 4pm Howard Community College Concert Series Horowitz Center, 10901 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia, MD 21044 (GPS use this address: 5020 Campus Dr, Columbia, MD 21044) Tickets $10-$18 (kids 6-12 FREE with general/senior ticket purchase) Meet-the-Artists Reception to follow
Sunday, November 19th at 3pm The Lyceum 201 S. Washington St, Alexandria, VA 22314 Free will donation to support the Friday Morning Music Club
Patagonia Winds returns to the Chalice Series with a diverse program of pieces by composers whose backgrounds weave together, connecting the threads of delightful works for wind quintet, and winds + piano with Michael Adcock. Featuring music by Jeff Scott, Andrew John Kosinski, Valerie Coleman, Lili Boulanger and Jean Françaix.
Saturday, December 3, 2022 7:00 PM at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045 Tickets
We get to be back in person for a concert AND the performance features the long-awaited premiere of Andrew John Kosinski’s “A Walk Through the Garden.”
Our “Diversions” program will take away your cares! Come enjoy music by Haydn, Grieg, Beethoven, Debussy and the Maryland premiere of “A Walk Through the Garden,” the work that we and New Jersey-based Quinception co-commissioned.
Sat. April 2nd at 7:30pm Horowitz Center at Howard Community College 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, MD 21044 Directions
Tickets $7-$18 (purchase one week ahead for early-bird discount!) www.howardcc.edu/concerts Horowitz Center Box Office 443-518-1500
Patagonia Winds was thrilled to feature music by women composers at the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention in Herndon, VA with two of the composers in attendance!
Our February 16th performances included an appearance on the “Amanda Harberg plays music of Amanda Harberg” concert as well as our feature recital “Vive la Femme!”
Emily, Emily, composer Amanda Harberg, Jay, Tia and Melissa
We were honored to play Amanda Harberg’s “Suite for Wind Quintet” on the concert featuring her music. The 2017 work combines the rich tradition of renaissance and baroque dance suites with her own American voice. To have her in the audience and to know she was pleased with our performance topped off this exciting concert.
Our “Vive la Femme!” recital highlighted wind quintet works by modern women composers Alexandra Molnar-Suhajda, Katherine Hoover, and Valerie Coleman.
Photographer David Soltysik’s cherry blossom photos highlight the music of Alexandra Molnar-Suhajda
As part of the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Convention’s tribute to flutist and composer Katherine Hoover (1937-2018), we performed her little-known but delightful 1987 piece Qwindtet.
Our signature piece Three Nature Walks for Woodwind Quintet by local composer Alexandra Molnar-Suhajda featured visual elements in the final movement “Cherry Blossom Path,” with beautiful photography by David Soltysik. We were excited to have Alexandra in the audience and to know how gratified she was with our rendition of her beautiful work.
Valerie Coleman’s dynamic work Portraits of Josephine was also augmented with multi-media elements to highlight the life of American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist Josephine Baker.
The iconic Josephine Baker highlighted in music and photos
“Thanks for doing such an amazing job with the “Three Nature Walks,” that was absolutely the best performance of any piece I have ever had. You are an amazing group. It was incredible musicianship! Thank you so, so much.” – Alexandra Molnar-Suhajda, composer
Friday, Jan. 31st at 8pm at Takoma Park Community Center
This engaging concert takes chamber music out of the drawing room and to the public! Multi-media visual elements and commentary will draw you into the intimacy of chamber music, with exciting selections from Holst, Amanda Harberg, Alexandra Molnar-Suhajda, Valerie Coleman, and Mussorgsky.
We’re looking forward to being back in the People’s Republic of Takoma Park!
The Baltimore Composer’s Forum presents the Patagonia Winds in a program featuring original works by: Garth Baxter, Gavin Brown, Ray Fields, Victor Frost, Ljiljana Jovanović, Harriet Katz, Josh Levin, Janice Macaulay, Jonathan Newmark, Ian Rashkin and Anna Rubin.
The Patagonia Winds starts off its tenth anniversary season with a pair of concerts featuring a powerhouse program featuring favorites by Holst, Coleman, and Mussorgsky.
This unique concert event weaves multimedia visuals and performer commentary to draw audiences deeper into the experience of the music, with the intimacy and connection afforded by chamber music.
You can hear the Patagonia Winds at Howard Community College on Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 4pm, (see ticket info here) and at Lutheran Village at Miller’s Grant on Monday, October 14th at 7pm.
