Classical Music for the 21st Century: Fresh, Vibrant, and Diverse

Upcoming Events

Fri, May 31
Collaborative Musicians' Project Fundraising Gala
Bellevue
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May 31, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Bellevue, 411 156th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98007, USA
Winds5 performs alongside the other amazing ensembles sponsored by Collaborative Musicians' Project. Click RSVP to buy a ticket and check out the fun raffle prizes!
Sun, Jul 07
The Annual Winds5 Comic Con-cert
The Royal Room
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Jul 07, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
The Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118, USA
Winds5 performs music from Baldur's Gate 3, Chainsaw Man, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Pokémon, and many more video games and anime. Click RSVP to buy tickets!
Fri, Aug 16
Winds5 on Northwest Focus Live
https://king.org/show/nw-focus-live
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Aug 16, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
https://king.org/show/nw-focus-live
Winds5 premieres new music for woodwind quintet by composer Brendan McMullen. Listen here: https://king.org/show/nw-focus-live.
Sun, Sep 15
Winds5 at the Royal Room
The Royal Room
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Sep 15, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
The Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118, USA
Winds5 performs music by Miguel del Aguila, Béla Bartók, Lina Mathon Blanchet, and others. Click RSVP to buy tickets!

ABOUT US

American Prize finalist Winds5 is a Seattle-area woodwind quintet. We specialize in performing music that is not traditionally associated with a wind quintet, such as music from non-Western cultures, video games, film and television. Broadening the wind quintet’s repertoire is important to us, as we actively champion and commission new music for wind quintet. Winds5 brings the wind quintet into the 21st century with fresh, vibrant, and diverse performances.

Lauren A simakoupoulos, flute

Brian Madsen, oboe

Brian Schappals, clarinet

Anna Barbee, horn

David Wall, bassoon

Get in Touch

Snapshots from Winds5's inaugural PNW tour in 2023!

Recorded on October 29, 2023 at Tacoma Community College.

Taylor Heath, recording engineer

Brian Schappals, audio engineer

David Wall, video editor

More music!

PastoraleAmy Beach

00:00 / 03:33

Wind Quintet no. 3, III. Very FastDavid Maslanka

00:00 / 12:15

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