About

The Potomac Winds collective is a Washington D.C. Metro Area-based ensemble comprised of musicians from the greater D.C. metropolitan area. Members of the group have performed in orchestras across the United States with individual honors such as concerto competition finalists, debut recitals, orchestral soloists and young artist awards. The mission of Potomac Winds is to establish the woodwind quintet as a virtuosic ensemble through engaging performances of the highest level of artistic expression, cultivating a sense of community with audience members, and collaboratively exploring works of all time periods and genres with particular emphasis on the art of contemporary composers.


We are able to offer a wide variety of concerts and are happy to coordinate a concert with you. For instance, would you like to pair music with a wine or beer flight? We won’t provide the alcohol, but we can find music that is either from the same country or has a similar character. We can do concerts inspired by various times and places, including by seasons (though not completely like Vivaldi’s!). As mentioned above, we do particularly enjoy the works of modern classical composers so we always try to bring in something new, or at least a new way of listening to something old.

We can work with you to make your evening musical entertainment fit your party. But if you just want a great concert, that will always be provided.

Music

Some of our standard repertoire:
Gamal Abdel-Rahim – The Lotus Pond arr. Adam Lesnick
Malcolm Arnold- Three Shanties; Quintet (Newly rediscovered)
Samuel Barber - Summer Music
Elliot Carter-Quintet
Valerie Coleman - Tzigane
Manuel De Falla – Four Spanish Dances arr Wayne Peterson
Paquito D'Rivera - Aires Tropicales
Eric Ewazen - Roaring Fork
Jean Francaix -Quintets
Stephen Gryc - Five American Portraits
John Harbison - Quintet for Winds
Paul Hindemith – Wind Quintet
Jacques Ibert - Trois Pièces Brèves
György Ligeti - Six Bagatelles
David Maslanka – 4 quintets to choose from!
Darius Milhaud- La Chiminee du roi Renee
Vincent Persichetti - Pastoral, Op. 21
Piazzolla – Libertango; Oblivion arr. Jeff Scott
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe, arr. Dr. Cliff Colnot
Anton Reicha – 100+quintets to choose from!
Nino Rota – Petite Offrande Musicale (he’s the guy who did the Godfather film score!)
Lalo Schifrin - “La nouvelle Orleans”
Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring arr. Jonathan Russell
Henri Tomasi - Five Secular and Sacred Dances
and many more!

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