What’s happening with Winsor Music? Read our latest blog post for updates, photos, and more.
We are officially launching our Mentoring Program campaign on Hatchfund, a non-profit crowd-funding website dedicated exclusively to supporting art and artists like us. I am happy to say that with the support of donors like you, we have already raised $1600, or an astounding 40% of our target goal!
It’s hard to believe, but this is the fifth year that the Bach Institute, a collaboration between Emmanuel Music, Winsor Music, and Oberlin College, has been in operation! Exciting enough that it’s our fifth anniversary, but even more exciting is the fact that we are holding competitive auditions for the first time this year!
Guess what, everyone? We just hit 500 likes on Facebook last week, something we’ve been working on all year! We've been using a tool that we really love and we wanted to share it with you.
For the last two weeks, our Artistic Director Peggy Pearson has been at the Wellesley Composer’s Conference, one of the oldest and most prestigious conferences of its kind. James Baker is Music Director and Conductor of the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, and he very graciously took some time out of his jam-packed schedule this week to speak with us about his love of new music, his work at the conference, and his unique vantage point as a percussionist, conductor, and composer of electronic music.
We absolutely love this interview: it's a chance to hear John Harbison and Peggy Pearson in conversation, a masterclass on the hard work and intentional craft of singing, an insightful analysis of Cantata 170, and a beautiful and thoughtful tribute to Lorraine, both as a musician and a person.
This Sunday, July 12, host Brian McCreath interviews oboist Peggy Pearson and composer John Harbison on WCRB’s The Bach Hour about Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and her performance of Cantata 170 on the recording we released last fall.
Get your calendars, friends! Winsor Music is excited to share with you a sneak peak of our upcoming 2015-16 season calendar.
Happy summer, friends! We're delighted to welcome to new interns to Winsor Music this summer, both from Smith College in Northampton, MA. Meet Tricia Kopko and Sarah Netsky!
Winsor Music is delighted to welcome the musicians of the Apple Hill Quartet — Elise Kuder and Colleen Jennings, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; and Rupert Johnson, cello — to the Concert Series. They spoke with us before the first of three concerts with Peggy Pearson; the third concert will take place at St. Paul's Church in Brookline on Sunday, April 26th at 7:00pm.
Prize-winning composer James Primosch has written a lyrical, lively, and wonderfully expressive oboe quartet for Peggy Pearson and Winsor Music, which will be performed by Peggy and members of the Apple Hill String Quartet at Winsor Music's final concert of the 2014-15 season. Read our interview to learn more about the new piece, how the composer arrived at his unique compositional voice and philosophy, and why he enjoys writing for Peggy and Winsor Music.
We're delighted to introduce you to the musicians and composers featured on our final concert of the 2014-15 season: The Apple Hill String Quartet, Peggy Pearson, oboe, Lawrence Wolfe, bass, and James Primosch and Eric Nathan, composers of a new oboe quartet and a new Song for the Spirit, respectively. Stay tuned for their interviews as we approach the concert!
The Arneis Quartet celebrates their fifth anniversary this season with appearances on the Alcyon, Emmanuel Music, and Winsor Music Chamber Series, where they will perform on the March 23 concert. Heather, Rose, Daniel, and Agnes very generously gave some rehearsal time to speak with us about the origins of the quartet, their favorite moments in the music for the March 23 concert, and why they love performing on outreach concerts.
Which Violobos member wants to play the bagpipe? Who performed in a bathroom once? Which composer would two out of three members go back in time to visit, and maybe even marry? Learn more about these fantastic and funny students if you missed our post on Facebook!
We are pleased to introduce you to the members of Winsor Music's newest quartet: Violobos! Mitsuru Yonezaki, violin, Njioma Grevious, viola, and Alma Bitran, cello, are outstanding high school students who were personally selected by Peggy Pearson, oboe, to participate in a long-term mentoring and performance program in the form of a regular oboe quartet. At a recent rehearsal, Mitsuru, Njioma, and Alma took fifteen minutes to give a group interview.
We're excited to say that we've already sold out for our March 23rd concert, but we hope you will make use of the wait list feature built in to our ticketing system. We anticipate that quite a few seats will open up in the weekend before the concert, and we will contact you promptly when these seats become available.
As many of you know, this week, our Artistic Director Peggy Pearson is serving as a faculty member and the co-director of the Bach Institute, a collaboration between Emmanuel Music, Winsor Music, and Oberlin College and Conservatory. Currently in their second week, the students are performing their arias in five outreach concerts hosted and facilitated by Winsor Music's outreach and education programs.
Rebecca Printz is many things: a mezzo-soprano, a student in her fourth year at Oberlin Conservatory and College, a student of Kendra Colton's, an outstanding alumna of the Bach Institute (as well as its first-ever administrative intern), a Boston-area native, and the featured Young Artist for Winsor Music's annual Thanksgiving Concert, to name a few.
Winsor Music is pleased to announce that we will be releasing a private, archival recording of the late mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson performing Bach's Cantata BWV 170 with Peggy Pearson and the Greenleaf Chamber Players, never before available to the public. This past week, Peggy shared her stories, memories and photographs of Lorraine and this project with us.
Last April, we celebrated the premiere of Lev Mamuya's final composition for Winsor Music as a high school student, and this fall, we welcome him back as a freshman at Harvard and NEC (fortunately for us, he didn't go too far!).
Winsor Music is pleased to announce that we are participating in the 2014 Mayor’s Holiday! A decade-plus tradition originally supported by the late Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Mayor’s Holiday is an eight-week celebration of the area’s performing arts featuring thousands of half-priced tickets to over 130 holiday shows throughout Boston and beyond.