Carol Wincenc

With the Detroit Symphony, she gave the world premiere of a flute concerto written specifically for her by Pulitzer Prize winner Christopher Rouse. Her recording of the work for Telarc with Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony, won the highly coveted Diapason d'Or prize.



Ms. Wincenc also gave the world premiere of Henryk Gorecki's Concerto-Cantata at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the U.S. premiere with the Chicago Symphony. 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.



New York audiences hear flutist Carol Wincenc during the 2005-06 season at the 92nd Y with the Tokyo Quartet and in recital with clarinetist Charles Neidich at Alice Tully Hall. She also collaborates with the Tokyo Quartet in Toronto. Additional solo appearances include the New Mexico Symphony (Rouse Concerto), Missoula Symphony (Corigliano's Pied Piper) and Mozart with the Plainfield (NJ) Symphony.



Recent seasons for Carol Wincenc include concerto performances with orchestras throughout the U.S. in addition to appearing with the Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House in performances of John Corigliano's Pied Piper Concerto, and returning to the Buffalo Philharmonic to record the music of Charles Griffes for the Naxos label under the baton of JoAnn Falletta.



Ms. Wincenc is equally interested in developing new solo and chamber repertoire for the flute. In a Valentine's Day recital in New York's Merkin Concert Hall in 1998, she premiered ten short "valentines" written for her by Gorecki, Schickele, Michael Torke and others.



Premiering new works is only a part of Carol Wincenc's musical world. She has also lent her personal interpretative voice to the great classics of the flute repertoire from Bach and Mozart to Nielsen and Messiaen. Ms. Wincenc has appeared as soloist with many leading American orchestras including the St. Louis, Atlanta, and Seattle Symphonies; the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras; and at music festivals including Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Caramoor, Marlboro, Sarasota Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival-Yale Summer School of Music, Festival of the Hamptons and Music @ Menlo.



Equally in demand abroad, Ms. Wincenc has given acclaimed performances with the London and Tampere Symphonies, the English Chamber Orchestra, and at the international music festivals in Aldeburgh, Budapest, Tivoli and Frankfurt. NOSPR Festival in Lodz, Poland where she performed Gorecki's Concerto-Cantata,



In great demand as a chamber musician, Ms. Wincenc has collaborated with the Guarneri, Emerson, Tokyo and Cleveland String Quartets, and performed with sopranos Jessye Norman and Elly Ameling, pianist Emanuel Ax, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. 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 Indian flutist R. Carlos Nakai, led to a sold-out U.S. tour which included performances in New York and San Francisco. Carol Wincenc is flutist with the New York Woodwind Quintet and the newly-formed Les Amies, with New York Philharmonic principal players Nancy Allen, harp, and Cynthia Phelps, viola.



Carol Wincenc received a 2005 Grammy nomination for her Naxos recording of works by Yehudi Wyner with Richard Stoltzman and other renowned colleagues. Other recordings include a all-American disc with pianist Samuel Sanders and composers/pianists David Del Tredici and Lukas Foss (Nonesuch), and the complete Mozart flute quartets with the Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon).



Her first solo album, a collaboration with pianist Andras Schiff (MHS), 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. 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 John Nelson and the New World Symphony (London/Decca).



Ms. Wincenc was featured with the Muir String Quartet on a collection of modern chamber works by composers ranging from Samuel Barber to Hector Villa-Lobos (EcoClassics). Her recording of the Schoenfield "Slovakian Childrens Songs" was released on an all-Schoenfield disc. (American Composers Forum)



Ms. Wincenc was First Prize Winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition and is currently a professor of flute at both the Juilliard School of Music in New York and at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. Carl Fischer published the first in a series of Carol Wincenc Signature Editions which feature her favorite flute repertoire.