Imani Winds

We’re off to Asia this week! ✈️

Join us at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 香港藝術節, and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore. We’re looking forward to connecting with audiences, students, and colleagues across the region.

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It might have been 10 degrees outside, but the amazing people of North Dakota packed the North Dakota Museum of Art and warmed our hearts! We look forward to next time! 💙

What a week!

We had a blast recording the premiere of ’s concerto “A Book Of Forgotten Creatures” with the Symphony under the great . Unfortunately the storm prevented us from bringing it to you live at the Kimmel Center, but we recorded and filmed it and can’t wait for you to hear it!

It was also an immense honor to open the Plenary Connect along with our dear friend . We loved every minute of it and encourage all to attend and support this wonderful organization that is so dear to our hearts.

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We are excited to kick off the spring season with Michelle Cann in beautiful Sedona, AZ this coming Sunday! On January 25, we will premiere a new concerto written for us by David Serkin Ludwig in honor of the Curtis Institute of Music centennial year. It will be thrilling to premiere this new work at with conductor Osmo Vänskä and our brilliant students! Hope to see you at a performance! ✨

And it’s a wrap!! We’ve just finished tracking our upcoming record. Stay tuned, we’ve got some truly special sounds coming your way!

Much thanks to these incredible musicians who played so beautifully:

Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe

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And to the always amazing producers and Doron Schachter, , , and everyone at and to and the awesome video crew for making this all possible!!
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Please consider contributing to the Imani Winds Foundation this GivingTuesday. Donations will help support the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival scholarship fund, commissioning new music, Imani Winds Media, and all of our community building activities...
It's been an amazing year artistically for Imani Winds, and at the same time grant-giving organizations have drastically changed their protocols this year, a big part of the budget for our projects. Everything we build is in the spirit of giving to the future of chamber music. We invite you to give to these efforts today!

We had a great visit to Augusta University for the Jacobs Concert Series! It was wonderful catching up with the incredible trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, who joined us for a tune, as well as reconnecting with friends and family in Georgia! ✨💫

Thank you for a special night, Lincoln Center!

Tonight at 7:30pm! See you soon, NYC!

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Photos from our recent performance at the New Mexico Jazz Festival! 📸 We are off to the University of Iowa for a residency that will culminate in a performance of our Grammy award-winning album Passion for Bach and Coltrane by Jeff Scott on Friday, 10/10. We look forward to working with the music students and engaging with the Iowa City community!