Patagonia Winds champions new music for the wind quintet, performing its two recent commissions by Jasmine Arielle Barnes and Alexandra Molnar-Suhajda.
Both composers will be in attendance to share their unique stories and provide a valuable look at the creative commissioning partnership.
Presented as part of the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention
Saturday, February 14, 2026
2:00pm
Hilton Washington Dulles Airport Hotel
13869 Park Center Rd, Herndon, VA 20171
Experience the vibrant artistry of today’s leading Black composers in an evening of powerful storytelling through wind quintet.
From Valerie Coleman’s beloved landscapes to the recent commissioned work by Jasmine Arielle Barnes, this program weaves together Caribbean folklore, American roots, and soaring contemporary voices.
Featuring music by four living composers alongside Lina Blanchet’s enchanting Haitian Folk Tale, this concert celebrates the creators shaping classical music’s present and future.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
7pm
Lutheran Village at Millers Grant
9000 Fathers Legacy, Ellicott City, MD 21042
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.
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!
In celebration of their 15th Anniversary Season, Patagonia Winds brings their “Looking Back, Looking Forward” program to Maryland and Virginia audiences in April 2025!
The concerts feature their signature blend of exciting new works and beloved favorites by Holst, Blanchet, Moravec, Hoiby and Coleman.
See you soon!
Sun. April 13th at 4:00pm
Horowitz Center
Howard Community College
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway
(GPS: use 5020 Campus Dr)
Columbia, MD 21044
Meet-the-Artists Reception to follow
Tickets and info
Sun. April 27th at 7:00pm
Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church
8009 Fort Hunt Rd
Alexandria, VA 22308
Meet-the-Artists Reception to follow
More Info
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!
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
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!
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
Mosaic /mōˈzāik/ (noun):
1. A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.
1.1. A colorful and variegated pattern.
1.2. A combination of diverse elements forming a more or less coherent whole.
From late Middle English: from French mosaïque, based on Latin musi(v)um decoration with small square stones, perhaps ultimately from Greek mousa ‘a muse.’ (Oxford dictionary)
Our upcoming concert features a colorful musical mosaic, with varied voices of twentieth century and contemporary composers from György Ligeti, writing in 1953, to Liduino Pitombeira and Eric Ewazen, writing in the 1990s, to Gary Schocker and Dana Wilson, writing in the past few years.
We’re pleased that HCC Piano Faculty member Wei-Der Huang will join the Patagonia Winds for this exciting array of chamber music for winds and piano – we hope you’ll be there, too!
Sunday, March 12, 2016 at 4 PM
Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center
Howard Community College
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21044
TICKET INFO:
· General Admission: $18
· Seniors (60+)/ Military: $12
· Students: $7 with ID
**Purchase your ticket by midnight one week ahead of the concert to receive the following Advance Ticket prices:
· General Admission: $16
· Seniors (60+)/ Military: $10
· Students: $5 with ID
Buy Tickets Online: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10103685/prm/FCMAR12
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