IMANI WINDS

Imani Winds is the 2024 GRAMMY® winner in the Classical Compendium category for Jeff Scott’s “Passion for Bach and Coltrane” released on their recently formed record label, Imani Winds Media.

Celebrating over a quarter century of music making, the four time GRAMMY® nominated group has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations and outreach.

Well known to audiences at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center, Imani have been featured performers at festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, Chautauqua Institution and Banff Centre. Their unique residencies have included performances, workshops, and masterclasses for thousands of students each year at University of Chicago, Eastman School of Music, Duke University and many other campuses. In 2021, Imani became Curtis Institute’s first faculty wind ensemble.

Imani Winds’ contributions are included in the permanent collection in the classical music section of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC.

“The signature contribution of this group [is] a technical ease with extravagant gestures, intense production of sound, and the daring expressive liberties that come only after musicians have developed a sixth sense of ensemble-bonding. Imani’s got it all.”     — Philadelphia Inquirer

CAVATINA DUO

THE CAVATINA DUO—Eugenia Moliner, flute (Spain) and Denis Azabagic, guitar (Bosnia) has become one of the most impressive combinations of its kind in the world. The first guitar and flute duo to be featured on the covers of both Classical Guitar Magazine (UK) and the cover of Flute Talk (USA), the husband-and-wife Cavatina Duo breaks convention with their combination of instruments.

The duo’s electrifying performances have captivated audiences worldwide in such major venues and festivals as Ravinia (Chicago), Da Camera Society (Los Angeles), Aix-en-Provence Summer Festival (France), the National Concert Hall of Taipei (Taiwan), National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, National Flute Convention Gala Concert (USA), Kolkata International Guitar Festival (India), as Well as in Spain, The Netherlands, South Korea, and over 30 other countries from Australia to Bhutan.

“This pair is generally considered to be the best of them [flute and guitar duos].”
—THE NEW YORKER

ORCHESTRA OF INDIGENOUS INSTRUMENTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

The Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies is an exciting and unusual ensemble of musicians and composers who combine instruments from the past and present as well as ritual theater, masks and dance. Members of the ensemble are former students of the award-winning conductor/composer Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, who founded OIANT in Argentina in 2000 to combine the unique sounds of native instruments of the Americas with European instruments and modern digital technology. All the musicians have built their musical instruments after researching their histories, based, in many cases, on models recovered from archaeological sites. The repertoire includes both traditional folk music and new compositions designed to explore sounds that come from combining technologies of the past and the present.

“Shamanic Sounds and Crazy Tone Clusters … feels like you have traveled back 1000 years and you are in a strange ceremony celebrating the connections of the culture with the Earth”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES

CAMERATA NORDICA

TRIO BOHEMO

This new ensemble from the Czech Republic has been dazzling audiences across Europe and the America since their formation in 2019 in Budapest. Members include pianist Jan Vojtek, violinist Matouš Pěruška, and cellist Kristina Vocetková. Over the last four years they received numerous awards: in Lugano, Switzerland, at the “ISA Festival” in Austria for the best interpretations of Viennese Classical Music, first prizes at the “International Filippo Nicosia Competition” in Italy, the “International Johannes Brahms Competition” in Austria and the “International Parkhouse Award” in London.​ Successes have continued in competitions and performances in London, Vilnius, Weimar and Vienna. The reviewer at their Wigmore Hall Debut wrote: “Trio Bohemo were on fire. The connection between the musicians was symbiotic. They played, danced, sweated and smiled in total synchronicity. There was an element of wilderness, a sublime feral, ritualistic ecstasy… “

‘They are the music that this world needs.’   —Wigmore Hall Debut

The Concerts in the Galleries and Monday Music in the Schools are underwritten by the Myra Foundation

with additional support from organizations and individuals in the community.

UNDERWRITER

GRANTORS

Myra Foundation

Neel Family Fund of the Community Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks, & Region

Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks, & Region