About

Queen of the flute

Hailed “Queen of the flute” by New York Magazine, flutist Carol Wincenc was first prize winner of the Naumburg Solo Flute Competition and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the both the USA and China National Flute Associations, the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Music, Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Brevard Festival Music Center and Manhattan School of Music and the Martha Graham Dance Company “Five Fearless Women” Award . She recently celebrated a half century as an international, concertizing artist at Lincoln Center’s Juilliard Theater, The Morgan Library and Museum, Merkin Concert Hall and the Staller Center for the Arts. She has appeared as soloist with the Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and London symphonies, the BBC, Warsaw, and Buffalo Philharmonics, and the Los Angeles, Stuttgart, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras. Performer at countless festivals such as Mostly Mozart, Aldeburgh, Budapest, Frankfurt, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Music at Menlo, Aspen, Yale/Norfolk, Sarasota, Banff, and Marlboro. A Grammy nominee, she has received a Diapason d’Or Award for her recording of the Rouse Flute Concerto with the Houston Symphony, Recording of Special Merit Award with pianist András Schiff, and Gramophone magazine’s “Pick of the Month” with the Buffalo Philharmonic. She is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet and a founding member of both Les Amies. A legend in the flute world, she continues to be the muse of today’s most prominent composers, with over 60 works written for her. A renowned pedagogue, Ms. Wincenc continues to teach on the faculties of The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University for over a half century combined. She is author of her popular series with Lauren Keiser Music Publishers, the Carol Wincenc 21st Century Flute. 

About

Queen of the flute

Hailed “Queen of the flute” by New York Magazine, flutist Carol Wincenc was first prize winner of the Naumburg Solo Flute Competition and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the both the USA and China National Flute Associations, the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Music, Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Brevard Festival Music Center and Manhattan School of Music and the Martha Graham Dance Company “Five Fearless Women” Award . She recently celebrated a half century as an international, concertizing artist at Lincoln Center’s Juilliard Theater, The Morgan Library and Museum, Merkin Concert Hall and the Staller Center for the Arts. She has appeared as soloist with the Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and London symphonies, the BBC, Warsaw, and Buffalo Philharmonics, and the Los Angeles, Stuttgart, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras. Performer at countless festivals such as Mostly Mozart, Aldeburgh, Budapest, Frankfurt, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Music at Menlo, Aspen, Yale/Norfolk, Sarasota, Banff, and Marlboro. A Grammy nominee, she has received a Diapason d’Or Award for her recording of the Rouse Flute Concerto with the Houston Symphony, Recording of Special Merit Award with pianist András Schiff, and Gramophone magazine’s “Pick of the Month” with the Buffalo Philharmonic. She is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet and a founding member of both Les Amies. A legend in the flute world, she continues to be the muse of today’s most prominent composers, with over 60 works written for her. A renowned pedagogue, Ms. Wincenc continues to teach on the faculties of The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University for over a half century combined. She is author of her popular series with Lauren Keiser Music Publishers, the Carol Wincenc 21st Century Flute.