About

Avenue Winds engages audiences of all ages with dynamic chamber music performances featuring new works by local San Francisco Bay Area composers as well as the classics of the woodwind quintet repertoire.

Performing with artistry and virtuosity, this engaging woodwind quintet has performed in recital at numerous venues, including the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of San Francisco, Berkeley Chamber Performances and the Old First Concert Series.

Avenue Winds maintains a special interest and enthusiasm for 20th and 21st century works and actively seeks out collaborations with contemporary composers as part of the LoCAL Living Music Project.

"Any opportunity to work with the Avenue Winds is an immense pleasure. One of the most professional and talented ensembles I know, they have given some of the most outstanding and thoughtful performances of contemporary music I have heard...performances that the composers have told me were the most insightful and well-executed performances they have ever received. They are one of the most remarkable wind quintets I know." -- John Bilotta, composer

Music

Sample Repertoire:

Adrienne Albert: Animology (n.)
Malcolm Arnold: Three Shanties for Woodwind Quintet
Anne Baldwin: Wind Quintet #1*
Samuel Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31
Greg Bartholomew: Second Suite from Razumov
Bruce Bennett: ...a dog named Jethro...a cat named Felix*
John Beeman: Adagio and Dance for Woodwinds*
Brian Bice: Visions of a Landscape*
John Bilotta: Fire in Spring*
John Bilotta: First Light*
Eugene Bozza: Scherzo
Sondra Clark: Postcards from Yosemite*
Aaron Copland: New England Countryside
Adolphe Deslandres:Trois Pieces en Quintette
Nancy Bloomer Deussen: Woodwind Quintet*
L. Peter Deutch: Love in the Afternoon*
Paquito D'Rivera: Aires Tropicales
Eric Ewazen: Roaring Fork
Irving Fine: Partita for Wind Quintet
Jean Francaix: Quintette, No. 2
John Harbison: Quintet for Winds (1978)
Paul Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2
Gyorgi Lygeti: Six Bagatelles
David Maslanka: Quintet for Winds #3
Stan McDaniel: Across the River*
Helena Mickelson: Fragments for Music of Use*
Modest Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. C. Ballarini)
Carl Nielsen: Quintet, Op. 43
Vincent Persichetti: Pastoral, Op. 21
Francis Poulenc: Sextet
Howard Quilling: Quintet for Winds (2006)
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau De Couperin
Daniel Wood: Hot Date with Destiny (2011)*
Sylvia Rickard: The Five Elements (1986)
Manly Romero: The Legend of Chung- Ah (1992)
Walter Skolnik: Quintet
Jason Stanford: Woodwind Quintet (2003)
William Grant Still: Miniatures for Woodwind Quintet
Robert Stine: Three Pieces for Wind Quintet*
Martha Stoddard: Three Sketches for Wind Quintet (2006)*
Paul Taffanel: Quintette pour instruments a vent

*Bay Area Composer

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