Coastal Concerts Presents WindSync
At CAMP Rehoboth

Coastal Concerts proudly presents the award-winning wind quintet WindSync at CAMP Rehoboth on Friday, Feb. 13, at 2 p.m. for this free recital. The show precedes Coastal Concert's WindSync showcase at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 14, at Bethel United Methodist Church, 4th and Market streets in Lewes. Tickets are for sale at www.coastalconcerts.org. 

The quintet will play a program of Nadia Boulanger, Elliott Carter, Philip Glass, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Mozart arrangements.

About WindSync

In its 16-year history, the group has appeared on notable stages in the U.S. and around the world. Highlights of WindSync’s 2024-25 season include a weeklong residency at Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall series, Chicago; and a weeklong residency at Shelter Island Friends of Music, New York. The season also includes performances at Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society; Harvard Musical Association, Cambridge; Chamber Music Kelowna, British Columbia; Chamber Music Northwest in Seattle; and Emerald City Music in Portland, Oregon.

The group embraces the classics and a growing contemporary repertoire. In the span of a single concert, WindSync might cover revitalized standards, freshly inked works, folk and songbook. Its personal performance style, combined with its mission of artistry, education and community-building, has enhanced its reputation as “a group of virtuosos who are also wonderful people, too,” said Alison Young of Classical MPR (Minnesota Public Radio).

WindSync’s artistic hometown is Houston, where its Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival has been entertaining followers since its inception in 2017. Festival partners include the Houston Youth Symphony and the Center for Performing Arts Medicine.

Founding member Garrett Hudson is a flutist who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he emerged at the age of 16 in a solo debut with the Winnipeg Symphony. Before embarking on a career as an international soloist, instructor, orchestral and chamber musician, he held positions in some of North America’s leading professional training orchestras. They include the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and l’Orchestre de la Francophonie in Montreal. He also participated in the world-class Young Artists Program through Ottawa’s National Arts Center. Hudson maintains a teaching studio in Houston.

Oboist Noah Kay joined the Colorado Springs Philharmonic as principal oboe, and in September 2022 he was appointed principal oboe of Symphony in C in Camden, NJ. Kay has performed and toured in Japan, Europe, and the U.S. He received a bachelor’s of music degree at the Eastman School of Music and a master’s of music from Yale University. The New Jersey native, now residing in New York City, is currently a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University.

Clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson recently garnered widespread attention for his rediscovery and reconstruction of a 125-year-old Octet by Charles Martin Loeffler. He appeared recently at the Library of Congress, Chamber Music Northwest, Ravinia, Emerald City Music and Morgan Library. In a recent TEDX talk, he compared the structural similarities between Mozart and the 90s sitcom Seinfeld. Johnson studied at the University of Texas at Austin and earned graduate degrees from the Yale School of Music. He completed doctoral study at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Bassoonist Kara LaMoure is a performer, educator and prolific arranger of chamber music for winds. She is a founding member of a comedic crossover group Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet, known for its web presence and following among young musicians. LaMoure has played with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and she can be heard on the original soundtrack to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. She earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Northwestern University, and she is currently an instructor at Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership. She lives in New York City.

French Horn player Anni Hochhalter is a founding member and executive director of WindSync. She has performed in North America, Panama, the United Kingdom, Italy, Taiwan and has played extensively in China. Hochhalter has appeared multiple times with the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, and the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival. She also has appeared as a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony Soundbridge, the Diablo Symphony, the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra and River Oaks Chamber Orchestra. She studied horn at the University of Southern California and is a graduate of Stanford University’s Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship. She is based in San Francisco.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.