Search - Windscape Wind Quintet, Denk, Phillips :: Dvorak Arranged for Winds: Piano Quintet, Romance for Violin, String Quartet

Created in 1994 by five eminent woodwind soloists, WINDSCAPE has won a unique place for itself as a vibrant, ever-evolving group of musical individualists, an "unquintet" which has delighted audiences throughout the United States, Canada, and Asia. Windscape's innovative programs and accompanying presentations are created to take listeners on a musical and historical world tour, evoking through music and engaging commentary vivid cultural landscapes of distant times and places. As Artists-in-Residence at the Manhattan School of Music, the members of Windscape are master teachers, imparting not only the secrets of instrumental virtuosity, but also presenting a distinctive concert series, hailed for its creative energy and musical curiosity. The series offers the perfect setting for the ensemble to devise new--sometimes startling-programs, and experiment with new arrangements and repertoire combinations. Popular programs which have emerged from this process in recent seasons include "The Roaring 20's", "The Fabulous 50's", "The Young Titan: Beethoven Comes to Vienna", and "East Meets West: The Music of Japan and the Impressionists". Violinist Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist and teacher. Born into a musical family, Mr. Phillips began violin studies at age four with his father Eugene Phillips, a composer and former violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. He continued his professional training at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas, and later worked with Sandor Vegh and George Neikrug. As a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1976, he performed recitals at New York's Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street "Y" and has performed as soloist with many leading symphony orchestra, including Pittsburgh, Houston, New Jersey, Phoenix and San Antonio. He appears regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto USA ,Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel Fire, and the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, England. He is a veteran of the Marlboro Music Festival and a past participant at the Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest. He has toured and recorded with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian and Yo-Yo Ma. Daniel Phillips is a founding member of the Orion String Quartet, which tours internationally. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where they are the quartet-in-residence, presented the Orion in the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets in six free concerts as a new millennium gift to New York City in May, 2000. Each concert honored a different childrens arts organization. Mr. Phillips is Professor of Violin at the Aaron Copland School of Music of Queens College. Pianist Jeremy Denk has built a reputation as one of today's most compelling young artists, with a wide-ranging, challenging repertoire. A 1998 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, he also won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in June 2005, and has appeared as soloist at the Ravinia festival, with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Youth Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra in Royal Festival Hall and Juilliard Orchestra under Kurt Masur in Avery Fisher Hall. His current performing repertoire ranges from standard works to those of Messiaen, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Kirchner and Ives, and he maintains working relationships with a number of living composers. Mr. Denk is an avid chamber musician, and has collaborated with leading string quartets, including the Borromeo, Brentano, Mirò, St. Lawrence, Shanghai and Vermeer. He has appeared at numerous festivals, including those of Santa Fe, Seattle, and the Spoleto Festivals in Italy and Charleston, and has spent several summers at the Marlboro Music School in Vermont and been part of "Musicians from Marlboro" national tours.