Carol Wincenc, flutist

Christopher Rouse Flute Concerto

Grammy and 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the National Flute Association, flutist Carol Wincenc celebrated her 2010 Ruby Anniversary with rave reviews from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and Performance Today.

A prolific recording artist, her performance of Pulitzer Prize Winner Christopher Rouse's Flute Concerto won the coveted Diapson D'Or Award with the Houston Symphony (Telarc) as well as Grammophone's "Pick of the Month" recording with her "hometown" orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic (Naxos) and Maestra Jo Ann Falletta. After winning the Naumburg Solo Flute Competition in 1978, her performance with Andras Schiff in an all French CD for Music Masters was awarded the Recording of Special Merit. Beloved muse of today's most prominent composers, she has premiered concerti written for her by such notables as Lukas Foss, Henryk Gorecki, Joan Tower, Paul Schoenfield, Jake Heggie, Peter Schickele, Roberto Sierra, and Tobias Picker.

She has appeared as soloist with such ensembles as the Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, BBC, and London Symphonies; and the St. Paul, Mostly Mozart, Los Angeles, and English Chamber Orchestras. She has performed at music festivals in Aldeburgh, Budapest, Frankfurt, Tivoli, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Banff, Sarasota, Music@Menlo, Yale-Norfolk and Marlboro.

A founding member of her trio, "Les Amies", with New York Philharmonic principals—harpist Nancy Allen and violist Cynthia Phelps—Wincenc is also a longtime member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, now in its 65th Celebration season. Her recording of the Mozart Flute Quartets on DGG with the Emerson String Quartet is regarded as one of the definitive interpretations of these works.

As a result of her fascination with the flute family, Wincenc created and directed a series of International Flute Festivals at St. Paul's Ordway Theatre, New York's 92nd St., and San Francisco Performances, featuring such diverse artists as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, Robert Dick, jazz artists Herbie Mann and Steve Kujala and Native American flutist R. Carlos Nakai. Lauren Keiser Publishers and Carl Fischer publish a series of Carol Wincenc Signature Editions, featuring her favorite flute repertoire.

Ms. Wincenc continues her teaching legacy at her her alma mater, The Juilliard School, and at Stony Brook University, which has graduated masterful students now holding prominent orchestral and teaching positions worldwide.

Carol Wincenc appears by exclusive arrangement with Diane Saldick, LLC, 225 East 36th Street, New York, NY 10016; www.dianesaldick.com.