How to Fly premieres soon – we need you!
We here at Patagonia Winds strongly believe in the importance of celebrating overlooked, under-supported, original voices from within our community. We commission the composers of tomorrow.
This work doesn’t happen without you. New talent needs your support! We invite you to become a part of our mission.
Since 2015, Patagonia Winds has commissioned four works for wind quintet. Our newest commission, How to Fly, is by the phenomenal composer Jasmine Arielle Barnes.
To celebrate, we are in our final fundraising push, and we invite you to be part of this first flight.
Jasmine Barnes wrote How to Fly as a meditation on the process of starting things—a deeply personal theme she was living herself.
Just four years ago, Jasmine made a decision to “trust in herself,” and she describes that moment as “bittersweet.” It created a massive change in her life and she ended up leaving a stable, teaching job to pursue composition full-time.
Today she is an award-winning composer.
This is the very essence of the music you are helping to create. As Jasmine describes:
“I imagined a bird in my mind, like a baby bird taking its first flight from the nest… Learning to trust yourself and learning to be courageous in your decisions and in your actions.”
Your gift to this campaign brings to life this message of courage and enables the creation of new art that speaks to everyone who has ever had a big dream.
Help Us Bring This Premiere to Life
Patagonia Winds is passionate about supporting living composers, and we are thrilled to be commissioning Jasmine’s first wind quintet.
But we can’t get this piece off the ground without your help.
Will you join the flight? Every gift commissions living composers and new art.
YES, I want to be a part of the first flight!
Thank you for helping us bring this premiere to life!
BIG NEWS! 
