Quintet of the Americas

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One of the Western Hemisphere’s finest chamber ensembles, The Quintet of the Americas, performs what the Washington Post termed “musical dialogue at the highest level”. Japan’s In Tune magazine classed them as one of the world’s top wind quintets excelling in virtuosity, balance, articulation and intonation. The Quintet is in residence in The Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.

Celebrating the 27th anniversary of their founding, the quintet is recognized as a leading interpreter of folk and contemporary wind quintet music from North and South America. They combine a variety of folk dances and instruments from South American tangos, choros and habaneras, as well as producing original works using Native American instruments including the Sioux courtship flute, conch shell, ceremonial drums, flutes, maracas, pottery whistles and Colombian gaitas.

The group’s mission is three fold:

To broaden the knowledge and appreciation of woodwind chamber music from the Western Hemisphere,

To perform contemporary, classical and folk-derived music from the diverse cultural traditions of the Americas,

To commission and record woodwind quintets and related chamber music.