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Carol Wincenc
Artist in Residence; Flute and Chamber Music
M.M. The Juilliard School, 1972
cwincenc@juilliard.edu
Carol Wincenc was First Prize Winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition. She has appeared as a soloist with such ensembles as the Chicago, Saint Louis, Atlanta and London Symphonies; the BBC and Buffalo Philharmonics, the Saint Paul and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, and the New York Woodwind Quintet. She has performed in the Mostly Mozart Festival and the music festivals in Aldeburgh, Budapest, Frankfurt, Santa Fe, Spoleto and Marlboro. Ms. Wincenc has premiered numerous works written for her by many of today's most prominent composers, including Christopher Rouse, Henryk Gorecki, Lukas Foss, Peter Schickele, Joan Tower and Tobias Picker. She has recorded for Nonesuch, London/Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Telarc. As a result of her fascination with the flute family, Ms. Wincenc created and directed a series of International Flute Festivals in St. Paul, Minn, feturing such diverse artists as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Herbie Mann and the American Indian flutist R. Carlos Nakai. Carl Fischer is publishing a series of Carol Wincenc Signature Editions, featuring her favorite flute repertoire. In addition to teaching at Stony Brook, Ms. Wincenc has also taught at the Juilliard School.Biography
One of today's international stars of the flute, Carol Wincenc has appeared as soloist with major orchestras around the world and has premiered works written for her by many of today's most prominent composers.
Carol Wincenc is deeply committed to expanding the flute repertoire. Telarc has released her world premiere recording of a flute concerto by 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winner Christopher Rouse with the Houston Symphony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, a work written for her which she premiered with the Detroit Symphony in 1994. Ms. Wincenc also gave the world premier of Gorecki's Concerto-Cantata at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw in 1992 and the U.S. premier with the Chicago Symphony in 1995. She has subsequently performed the work in London, France and Poland, and will record it for Nonesuch. To date, she has given over 50 performances of Lukas Foss's Renaissance Concerto. She has also commissioned and premiered concerti by Peter Schickele, Joan Tower, Paul Schoenfield and Tobias Picker, who composed a double concerto for her and soprano Barbara Hendricks entitled The Rain in the Trees, which was inspired by the rainforest poems of W.S. Merwin.
Ms. Wincenc is equally interested in developing new solo and chamber repertoire for the flute. On a Valentine's Day recital in New York's Merkin Concert Hall, she premiered ten short "valentines" written by Gorecki, Schickele, Michael Torke and others. In May 1997, she joined with flutists Linda Chesis and Laura Gilbert for a recital which featured premieres of works for multiple flutes.
But premiering new works is only a part of Carol Wincenc's musical world. She has also lent her personal interpretive voice to the great classics of the flute repertoire from Bach and Mozart to Nielsen and Messiaen. Ms. Wincenc has appeared as a soloist with the Saint Louis, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Houston and Seattle symphonies; the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Los Angeles and Saint Paul chamber orchestras; and the Mostly Mozart, Sante Fe, Spoleto, Caramoor and Marlboro music festivals. The 1997-98 season will be her first with the New York Woodwind Quintet. Equally in demand abroad, Ms. Wincenc has given acclaimed performances with the London Symphony, the English and Stuttgart chamber orchestras, and the international music festivals in Aldeburgh, Budapest, Tivoli and Frankfurt.
In great demand as a chamber musician, Ms. Wincenc has collaborated with the Guarneri, Emerson, Tokyo and Cleveland string quartets, and performed with Jessye Norman, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and Elly Ameling. As a result of her fascination with the flute and its family of instruments, Ms. Wincenc created and directed a series of International Flute Festivals at the Ordway Theatre in St. Paul. The overwhelming success of these festivals, which featured such diverse artists as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Herbie Mann and American flutist R. Carlos Nakai, led to a sold-out U.S. tour which included performances in New York and San Francisco. Ms. Wincenc also performs regularly in duo concerts with harpist Nancy Allen.
Carol Wincenc's recordings include an all-American disc on Nonesuch with pianist Samuel Sanders and composers/pianists David Del Tredici and Lukas Foss. Her first solo album, a collaboration with pianist Andras Schiff, was cited by Stereo Review as a "Recording of Special Merit" and was followed by albums in collaboration with guitarist Eliot Fisk and the Muir String Quartet. Ms. Wincenc has recorded the complete Mozart Flute Quartets with the Emerson String Quartet for Deutsche Grammophon. She has also recorded Foss's Renaissance Concerto under the direction of the composer (New World), Joan Tower's Concerto with the Louisville Orchestra (d'Note), and Paul Schoenfield's Klezmer Rondos with the New World Symphony under the direction of John Nelson (London/Decca). Upcoming recordings include: Schoenfield's Slovakian Children's Songs for flute and piano, accompanied by the composer (London/Decca); and a collection of 20th century chamber works by composers ranging from Samuel Barber to Heitor Villa-Lobos with baritone Douglas Webster and the Muir String Quartet (EcoClassics).
Carol Wincenc was First Prize Winner of the Walter W. Naumberg Solo Flute Competition and is presently a professor of flute at the Julliard School of Music in New York. Carl Fischer has published the first in a series of Carol Wincenc Signature Editions which will feature her favorite flute repertoire. Ms. Wincenc resides in New York City with her husband Douglas Webster. They have a 4-year-old son, Nicola.