CAROL WINCENC FLUTE
Hailed "Queen of the Flute" (New York Magazine) at the outset of her, now, brilliant 48 year career, flutist CAROL WINCENC
was First Prize Winner of the (sole) Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition, as well as the Lifetime Achievement
Award recipient from the National Flute Association, the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for
Lifetime Achievement in Music, and Distinguished Alumni Awards from Manhattan School of Music and the Brevard
Music Center. During the past two seasons she performed, recorded and gave masterclasses as an exclusive Burkart
Flutes Artist in Beijing, Shenyang, Seoul, Warsaw, Prague, Venice, Nice, and Thessoloniki.
In North America she performed as soloist and chamber musician from coast to coast, including Seattle, Phoenix, Dallas,
Edmonton, Banff, Iowa City, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Tucson, Palm Beach, Sarasota, Philadelphia, Boston and her
home city, New York.
Recently she recorded an all Uebayashi album with the award winning Escher String Quartet,
and video/audios in partnership with her collaborator/pianist Bryan Wagorn of the Metropolitan Opera.
Most recently she and Mr. Wagorn performed to a sold out house at Weill Carnegie Hall for the "Naumburg Looks Back" series.
Delighting audiences for over four decades with her signature charismatic, high virtuosity and deeply heartfelt musicality,
she has appeared as soloist with such ensembles as the Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit and London Symphonies,
the BBC, Warsaw and Buffalo Philharmonics, as well as the Los Angeles, Stuttgart and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras, the latter
for which she was Principal and Solo Flute from 1972-77. She has performed in countless festivals such as Mostly Mozart, Aldeburgh,
Budapest, Frankfurt, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Music at Menlo, Aspen, Yale/Norfolk, Sarasota, Banff and Marlboro. The muse of today's
most prominent composers, Ms. Wincenc has premiered numerous works written for her by legends Christopher Rouse, Henryk Gorecki,
Lukas Foss, Jake Heggie, Paul Schoenfeld, Tod Machover, Yuko Uebayashi, Thea Musgrave, Andrea Clearfield, Shi-Hui Chen and Joan Tower.
In great demand as a chamber musician, Ms. Wincenc has collaborated with the Emerson, Tokyo, Guarnieri, Cleveland, Juilliard
and Escher String Quartets, and performed with Jessye Norman, Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma.
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