Premiering new works is only a part of Carol Wincenc’s musical world. She has also lent her personal interpretative voice to the great classics of the flute repertoire from Bach and Mozart to Nielsen and Messiaen. Wincenc has appeared as soloist with many leading American orchestras including the St. Louis, Atlanta and Seattle symphonies; the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras; and at music festivals including Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Caramoor and Marlboro. Other appearances include the Sarasota Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival-Yale Summer School of Music, Festival of the Hamptons and Music @ Menlo.
Equally in demand abroad, Wincenc has given acclaimed performances with the London and Tampere symphonies, the English Chamber Orchestra, and at international music festivals in Aldeburgh, Budapest, Tivoli and Frankfurt. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with the Guarneri, Emerson, Tokyo and Cleveland string quartets, and performed with sopranos Jessye Norman and Elly Ameling, pianist Emanuel Ax, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
As a result of her fascination with the flute and its family of instruments, Wincenc created and directed a series of international flute festivals at the Ordway Theatre in St. Paul. The success of these festivals, which featured such diverse artists as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Herbie Mann and American Indian flutist R. Carlos Nakai, led to a sold-out U.S. tour which included performances in New York and San Francisco.
Wincenc received a 2005 Grammy nomination for her Naxos recording of works by Yehudi Wyner with Richard Stoltzman and other renowned colleagues. Other recordings include an all-American disc with pianist Samuel Sanders and composers/pianists David Del Tredici and Lukas Foss (Nonesuch), and the complete Mozart flute quartets with the Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon).
Her first solo album, a collaboration with pianist Andras Schiff (MHS), was cited by Stereo Review as a “Recording of Special Merit” and was followed by albums in collaboration with guitarist Eliot Fisk and the Muir String Quartet. She has also recorded Lukas Foss’s Renaissance Concerto under the direction of the composer (New World), Joan Tower's Concerto with the Louisville Orchestra (d’Note), and Paul Schoenfield’s Klezmer Rondos with John Nelson and the New World Symphony (London/Decca). She was featured with the Muir String Quartet on a collection of modern chamber works (EcoClassics).
Wincenc won first prize in the Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition and is currently a professor of flute at both The Juilliard School in New York and at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. She is also flutist with the New York Woodwind Quintet and the newly-formed Les Amies (with New York Philharmonic principal players Nancy Allen, harp, and Cynthia Phelps, viola).
