Englewinds performs music for our planet’s seas and their inhabitants and what we can do to help them. American premiere of The Wooden Whale is Calling by Tadahisa Nakamura. Hands Across the Sea by John Philip Sousa, Sermon to the Fish by Gustav Mahler, Gulf Migration by Sarah Davol, Monoceros for solo horn by Wolgang Plagge, The Secret of the Sea by John Stepan Zamecnik, Three Sea Shanties by Malcolm Arnold and more. Artwork on display: Sea Urchins by Monica Loncola.

Wayne Public Library
461 Valley Road
Wayne, NJ

Free admission, reservations required

Monday, October 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Hackbarth Auditorium at Maywood Public Library
459 Maywood Avenue, Maywood, NJ Free admission
ADA Accesssible

Mariachi! Internationally renowned Mariachi star Alvaro Paulino joins Englewinds! This festive concert celebrates the long flight of the Monarch Butterfly from the Northeastern U.S. all the way to Mexico each year. Mariachi music led by Señor Paulino and Latin classical selections including “La Cumparsita” from Uruguay, “La Mariposa” by Peruvian composer José de Orejón y Aparicio and more.

Funding for this concert was made possible in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs with funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Johnson Public Library, 274 Main St, Hackensack, NJ - Evening concerts on the Lawn
ADA Accessible

Internationally renowned Mariachi star Alvaro Paulino joins Englewinds for a program celebrating La Mariposa Monarca - the beautiful Monarch Butterfly, which migrates from the Northern U.S. to Mexico each year. A Mariachi/Classical crossover program featuring Mariachi music from Mexico and Latin classical selections.

Funding for this concert was made possible in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs with funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

BEES, PLEASE!
Music for Summer Evenings, Thursdays at 7:30
Grace Memorial Chapel
Silver Bay, NY
Suggested Donations: $10-20
ENGLEWINDS musicians perform the virtuosic “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Rimsky-Korsakoff, and other bee-related musical selections.
All proceeds go towards preservation and maintenance of Grace Memorial Chapel. The chapel has outstanding acoustics, beautiful stained glass windows and a vibrant history since 1884. Grace Memorial Chapel was designed by William Tuthill, chief architect of Carnegie Hall in NYC.

PETER and the WOLF!

Englewinds performs the classic folktale narrated by Thomas Crawford, Director of the American Classical Orchestra, NYC and with mime Catherine Gasta, who acts out the characters. The program introduces children to the different instruments of the orchestra and their unique sounds.

Saturday, June 8th at 11 a.m.

Paramus Public Library
116 East Century Road
Paramus, NJ
ADA Accessible

Funding for this concert was made possible in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs with funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

The Four Seasons of Laurelwood
inspired by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Laurelwood Arboretum
725 Pine Lakes Drive
Wayne, NJ

Limited Seating - SOLD OUT
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: laurelwoodarboretum.org

Presented by Laurelwood Arboretum and Wayne Public Library and sponsored in part by
Monica Loncola, Artist

Englewinds opens the ensemble’s 25th Season where it all began…at the Puffin Cultural Forum.
Percolating at the Puffin!
Musicians and scientists celebrate the recent wetland restoration of the Teaneck Creek Conservancy - in all four seasons! Discussion of how individuals can help prevent flooding in Northern New Jersey. World premieres include “The Discovery of Honey” by Marilyn Bliss and “Percolation” by Sarah Davol along with music by Bill Evans, George Gershwin, Edward MacDowell and Antonio Vivaldi.
Come celebrate Englewinds 25 years of concerts for environmental awareness!

20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ. 07666
Covid precautions and ticket reservation information here:
https://www.puffinculturalforum.org/tickets-reservations/

The Puffin Cultural Forum is ADA accessible.

Funding for this concert was made possible by the Puffin Foundation, Bogota Savings Bank and also in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs with funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Englewinds performs “The Four Seasons at Flat Rock Brook” a concert celebrating the 50th
Anniversary of Flat Rock Brook Nature Center. Music includes “Four Seasons” by Vivaldi, Cyclogenesis by Gregory Rossetti, and others.

Please call before coming as space is limited; see below on how to obtain advance tickets.

For reservations/tickets: https://tinyurl.com/4SeasonsOfFlatRock
Flat Rock Brook Nature Association
443 Van Nostrand Avenue
Englewood, NJ
(201) 567-1265

Funding for this concert was made possible in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs with funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and with support from Bogota Savings Bank and Monica Loncola, artist.

Englewinds performs “Under the Blue Dome” at GALLERY BERGEN at Bergen Community College
The program about the importance of our ozone layer is for combinations of woodwind quintet and piano includes world premieres and new arrangements. “Under the Blue Dome by Native American composer J.J. Hollingsworth; “Across an Open Sky” by Peter PIacquadio, “Out of Chrysalis (2022)” by Sarah Davol, “Caelitus Mihi Vires” by Christian Humcke, “Sky Quest” by Garrie Harvey, “Blue Skies” by Irving Berlin, “Improvisation” by Margot Wright and more. This concert is dedicated to the memory of Rosemarie Faust.

FREE ADMISSION
Gallery Bergen, West Hall
Bergen Community College
400 Paramus Road
Paramus, NJ 07652

Funding for this concert was made possible in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs with funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Englewinds performs “Under the Blue Dome” at the Puffin Cultural Forum
20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ. 07666
Covid precautions and ticket reservation information here:
https://www.puffinculturalforum.org/tickets-reservations/
The program for combinations of woodwind quintet and piano includes world premieres and new arrangements. “Under the Blue Dome by J.j.Hollingsworth; “Across an Open Sky” by Peter PIacquadio, “Out of Chrysalis (2022)” by Sarah Davol, “Caelitus Mihi Vires” by Christian Humcke, “Sky Quest” by Garrie Harvey, “Blue Skies” by Irving Berlin, “Improvisation” by Margot Wright with this season’s Young Artist, guest choreographer and dancer, Alexis Davol.

Funding for this concert was made possible by the Puffin Foundation, and also in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs with funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Summer concert! Englewinds performs indoors at LAURELWOOD ARBORETUM in the new Knippenberg Center with windows open and with audience both indoors and under an adjacent tent . Program will include music by Malcolm Arnold, Dawn Avery, Kenneth Bray, Valerie Coleman, Sarah Davol, Edward MacDowell, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and David Sanford

725 Pines Lake Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470

https://laurelwoodarboretum.org/sculpture-trail/summer-concert-series/

Shea Center for the Performing Arts

Midday Artist Series presents Englewinds with additional funding from PNC Bank & private donors

Featuring two Native American composers: “Tulpe” and “Branches” by Dawn Avery and one movement of our upcoming world premiere this season of “Under the Blue Dome” by J.J. Hollingsworth. Concert also includes “Full Moon” by Tomoko Ohno and more.
Guest Artists:: Art of Motion Dance Theatre and WPU percussion students
IN PERSON CONCERT - FREE ADMISSION (vaccination card and masks required)
Shea Center for the Performing Arts
William Paterson University
300 Pompton Road
Wayne, NJ

Surround-sound style concert at Gallery Bergen in Paramus, NJ. Englewinds celebrates the branching out of people and of ideas featuring the world premiere of Onhata Shon'a (“Branches”) by Dawn Avery, 2021 commission Wingspan by Martha Sullivan; Umoja by Valerie Coleman; Alchemy by David Sanford; Wings by Joan Tower; Elephant by Carman Moore. Stella Splendida by Tomoko Ohno and Out of Chrysalis by Sarah Davol. Concert is in coordination with the gallery’s exhibit of “Women of the Ramapough Lenape Nation“: photographic portraits of women embodying poetic myths by Lisa Levart.

FREE ADMISSION
Gallery Bergen, West Hall
Bergen Community College
400 Paramus Road
Paramus, NJ 07652

Dawn Avery, composer

Berkshire Busk presents Englewinds performing Classical music for woodwind trio with new arrangements by Mitch Kriegler and Sarah Davol. The mission of Berkshire Busk is to bring music to Great Barrington during this summer’s transition from the Covid pandemic.

Free!

Rubiners Alley
Great Barrington, MA
more information at:
https://www.berkshirebusk.com

Concert at sunset on Mount Holyoke mountain in Skinner State Park, Hadley, MA

Tickets: $12  http://www.friendsofmhr.org/summer-concert-series.html

Together we are all branching out after our Covid sequester. Englewinds performs music to celebrate our newfound freedom with music by Valerie Coleman, Steven Gerber, John Mackey, William Grant Still. Ann Ronell, new arrangements by David Sanford, Tomoko Ohno, Sarah Davol and Mitch Kriegler, and two world premieres: WINGSPAN for woodwind quintet by Martha Sullivan and SNOWFALL for solo bassoon by Chad Smith.

Both indoor seating and outdoor seating on wrap around porch available.

Englewinds performs virtuosic solos prepared during the pandemic time. Concert outside the Puffin Cultural Forum 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ. Event includes musicians featured on the Puffin Cultural Forum roster. Raindate is the following Saturday, June 5th at 12:30 p.m.
FREE

Solos
Marcia Hankle - ”Winter Spirits” for solo flute by Katherine Hoover
Sarah Davol - “Out of Chrysalis - I” for solo oboe by Sarah Davol *world premiere
Mitch Kriegler - “Duet” for solo clarinet by Steven Gerber
Atsuko Sato - ”Soliloqy” for solo bassoon by Steven Gerber
R.J. Kelly - ”Elephant” for solo horn by Carman Moore
Ensemble music
”John Henry” by Steven Gerber for woodwind quartet and piano (arranged by Tomoko Ohno)
”Sheltering Sky” by John Mackey for woodwind quartet
”Umoja” by Valerie Coleman for woodwind quintet

DRIVE IN CONCERT - Music for Woodwind Quintet by Ludwig van Beethoven, Georg Philip Telemann, Adrien Barthe and “Umoja” by Valerie Coleman

Milford Health Parking Lot 111 E. Catherine Street, Milford, PA
(Across from the street from the Milford Theatre)
Audience will be in cars or next to cars wearing masks

http://www.kindredspiritsarts.org/#content

FREE ADMISSION

Midsummer Soiree: A Walk Through the Wetlands virtual gala, is a celebration of the history, ecology and art of Teaneck Creek Conservancy, while reflecting upon the legacy of their founder, Perry Rosenstein, who was sadly lost to the pandemic this year. The event will feature an exciting musical performance from Englewinds, Nikki Manx Dance Project, and guitarist Steve Kelman. 

The event will premiere on Teaneck Creek’s Facebook, Youtube and at www.teaneckcreek.org/midsummer on August 5th at 6:30 pm.

Aesop’s classic fable adapted and set to music by John Falcone

Sarah Davol, oboe Atsuko Sato, bassoon and Tomoko Ohno, piano
with Ariel Lauryn , Storyteller

Hillside Elementary School 340 Homans Avenue, Closter, NJ

Music by Malcolm Arnold, Sarah Davol, Eric Ewazen, R.J. Kelley, Kenneth Bray, Akshaya Avril Tucker, Rimsky-Korsakov and more. Music to celebrate the ongoing transformation of Cold Spring Harbor from whale hunting to conservation, coastal fishing supplemented by fish hatchery, creation of a state park, farm sanctuary, life science laboratory, environmental center and more.

St. John’s Episcopal church 1670 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

For reservations and more information: 516-692-6368 ext. 5

Donation: $20 Adults; students and children free

PUFFIN CULTURAL FORUM, 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ Ticket Reservations: (201) 836-3599

Englewinds celebrates the Wetland Restoration of the Teaneck Creek Conservancy

Two world premieres! “Into Whose Mouth the Stars by composer and dancer Akshaya Avril Tucker, and “Ode to a Monarch Butterfly” for clarinet solo by Arlo McKinnon, Jr.
Also works by Edwin Avril, Tomoko Ohno, Sarah Davol, William Grant Still and Malcolm Arnold. Come celebrate Englewinds’ longstanding relationship with the Puffin Cultural Forum and the 46 acre nature conservancy just outside of NYC.

Englewinds performs at historic Lambert Castle
Concert about the paintings in the beautiful atrium of the castle and music celebrating the newly renovated Paterson Great Falls National Park. Music by Kevin Mallon, Eric Ewazen, Malcolm Arnold, Sarah Davol, Tomoko Ohno, John Coltrane and Mark Zaki (world premiere). Historian Martha Brozyna will give a historic perspective of the Castle, Paterson and George Washington’s connection to the Great Falls.

Lambert Castle 3 Valley Road, Paterson, NJ Reservations: (973) 247-0085
Tickets: $15

image by the wonderful photographer and percussionist Daniel Haskins

Concert to celebrate 20 years of music written for the Teaneck Creek Conservancy. The Conservancy will close for restoration in early 2019 and reopen later in the year…truly “A Green Awakening”.

World premieres by Pamela Sklar and Edwin Avril! Also music by Dawn Avery, Sarah Davol, Max Lifchitz, Ting Ho, Tomoko Ohno and others.

TEANECK PUBLIC LIBRARY 840 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666

Kindred Spirits Arts Festival presents BEES, PLEASE!

Englewinds performs its virtuosic Bees, Please program featuring Mitch Kriegler, our "swift" clarinetist (Broadstreet Review), in Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky Korsakov.  Also, a world premiere by Edwin Avril, and works by Ballay, Carter, Chopin, Davol, Kim, Macdowell, Sklar, arrangements by Kriegler and more.

The historic Milford Theater 114 East Catherine Street,  Milford, PA  

A performance in the beautiful Brandywine River Museum, home to the art of Wyeth family of artists:  Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth (Andrew's son), and Andrew's father, N.C. Wyeth, best known for his illustrations.  Englewinds performs music inspired by the beautiful Brandywine River area and calls attention to environmental issues that face the Brandywine Nature Conservancy.  This concert is in conjunction with the current exhibit "Natural Wonders:  The Sublime in Contemporary Art".  

Music by: Dawn Avery, Edwin Avril, Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Davol, Eric Ewazen, Allen Farnham, Milton Granger, R.J. Kelley, Edward MacDowell (arr. Mitch Kriegler), Ann Wyeth McCoy, Ann Ronell, Gregg Rossetti

Tickets:  $20 members  $25 non-members Doors open at 6.
http://www.brandywine.org/museum/exhibitions/current
http://andrewwyeth.com  

"WIND ENERGY!" at the Puffin Cultural Forum,  20 Puffin Way, Teaneck NJ

Learn more about wind energy!  This program features a world premiere of  "Cyclogenesis" by Gregory Rossetti and "World Winds" by Bruce Odland for woodwind quintet and multi-media, as well as other gusty music. Discussion with documentary film maker, Melanie La Rosa, who will show film clips about wind energy in the Northeast U.S. 

Englewinds peforms for the Spring Benefit Celebration
for The New York Center for Children
THE PENINSULA NEW YORK 700 Fifth Avenue
at 55th Street, New York City
Festive attire  * Auction *  Cocktails & hors d'oeuvres
Kate Spade, Honorary Chair of the Board of Directors

http://www.newyorkcenterforchildren.org/

The NYCC helps children heal from abuse and thrive.

A concert of dance and music in support of the sustainable initiative of the Hackensack Clean Communities.  Featuring Nikki Manx Dance Project. Music by Valerie Coleman, Sarah Davol, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and more.

Hackensack Cultural Arts Center 39 Broadway, Hackensack, NJ  07601

Concert at sunset on Mount Holyoke mountain in Skinner State Park, Hadley, MA

Tickets: $10  http://www.friendsofmhr.org/summer-concert-series.html

Englewinds performs music to honor our Earth and to celebrate the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.  Earthly and lunar music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Neal Kirkwood, Eric Ewazen, Tomoko Ohno, Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini, Bart Howard, Sarah Davol and more.  

SHEA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Rd, Wayne, NJ   
Admission free   ADA Accessible   Free Parking in Visitor Lot

Englewinds performs honeybee concert for woodwinds and piano featuring the virtuosic Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakoff, The Bee by Sarah Davol, and other bee-related music by Edwin Avril, Georges Bizzzet, Elise Carter, Kevin Kim, John McMurtery, Monte Morgenstern, and more.  A New Jersey beekeeper will talk during the concert about honeybees and how we can help.