Patagonia Winds wind quintet performs concerts DC Maryland Virginia region

15th Anniversary Commission

🌟 BIG NEWS! 🌟

We’re thrilled to officially announce that in honor of our 15th Anniversary season, Patagonia Winds has commissioned the incredible Jasmine Arielle Barnes to write a piece for us!

A Baltimore native and graduate of Morgan State University, Jasmine has been rapidly establishing herself as a composer of note. We connected with her last spring at the Boulanger Initiative’s WoCo Fest and were excited to learn that Demarre McGill, Titus Underwood, Anthony McGill, and Andrew Brady were premiering her new Wind Concertante.

We can’t wait to see what she will write for wind quintet!

Song and Dance

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!

Patagonia Winds wind quintet performs concerts DC Maryland Virginia region

Sunday, October 15th at 4pm
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Concert Series
1 Chevy Chase Circle NW, Washington, DC, 20015
Free will donation to support CCPC’s Concert Series

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

Tapestry

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

Celebrate!

HCC Faculty Concert Series 2022-2023 flier for La fete de la musique

La fĂŞte de la musique
Sun. Oct. 23rd at 4pm
with Dr. Wei-Der Huang, piano
Horowitz Center
Howard Community College
Columbia, MD
Tickets and info

We hope to see you there!
Please stay to say hello at the Meet the Artists reception afterwards!

We’re Back!

Howard Community College Concert Series flier for Patagonia Winds with composer Andrew John Kosinski

It’s finally here!

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

We can’t wait to see you!

Patagonia Winds Goes Virtual

UPDATE: You can watch this concert anytime on YouTube! Enjoy!

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We are planning a treat for you to enjoy from the comfort (and safety) of your own home! 

Please join us July 26th at 3pm (see calendar event) as we celebrate two influential women of color in America.

 

American-born entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker

Our FREE virtual concert for the WMPA Chamber Music Series features “Portraits of Josephine Baker” by Valerie Coleman.

 

American flutist and composer Valerie Coleman

We’ll also highlight other favorite performances of music by Bach, Harberg, Holst and Gershwin.

This informal concert includes our signature commentary about the pieces plus stories about our musical origins.

Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association will stream the concert on their YouTube channel. 

Watch the concert

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Vive la Femme!

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

Concerts galore!

We had a great week with a DC school program, our Takoma Park Arts appearance, and our first GroupMuse concert!








The Power of Music: By the People, For the People

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!

Friday, January 31st at 8pm
Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912

FREE ($10 suggested donation)

Whirling Winds

Sunday, November 24, 2019, 3 pm

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.

St. Matthew Catholic Church
5401 Loch Raven Blvd.
Baltimore, MD 21239

Ample free parking

Reception after concert

Admission $15/$10 student

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