Distinguished Artist Series

On February 21, the chamber ensemble WindSync will perform in Roxy Grove Hall at 7:30 p.m. as part of the School of Music's Distinguished Artist Series. Tickets are available at baylor.edu/tickets.

WindSync is a collective of five musicians who have established themselves as a vibrant chamber ensemble performing wind quintet masterworks, adapting beloved music to their instruments, and championing new works by today's composers.

The quintet eliminates the "fourth wall" between musicians and audience by often performing from memory, creating an intimate connection. This personal performance style, combined with the ensemble's three-pronged mission of artistry, education, and community-building, lends WindSync its reputation as "a group of virtuosos who are also wonderful people, too" (Alison Young, Classical MPRI).

WindSync launched an international touring career after winning the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In 2018, they were medalists at the M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition. WindSync has appeared in recital at the Met Museum, Ravinia, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. In 2015, the quintet was invited by the Library of Congress to perform the world premiere of Paul Lansky's "The Long and the Short of it," commissioned by the Carolyn Royall Just Fund and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.