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Imani Winds

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Imani Winds performs Astor Piazzolla's Libertango
Imani Winds performs Valerie Coleman's Umoja

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1 Titilayo  
2 LTC: Prelude  
3 LTC: Fugue  
4 LTC: Menuet  
5 LTC: Rigaudon  
6 Fuga e Misterio  
7 CDB: Molto Allegro Deciso  
8 CDB: Lento Flessibile  
9 CDB: Andante Con Moto  
10 CDB: Adagio  
11 CDB: Presto  
12 Umoja  
13 Oblivion  
14 Afro Blue  
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Imani Winds is the self-titled CD follow up on KOCH Classics to thier Grammy nominated "The Classical Underground." This groundbreaking group, Valerie Coleman, Toyin Spellman Diaz, Mariam Adam, Jeff Scott, and Monica Ellis, have been perfecting their pan-dialectical music since 1997, exploring the links between European, African & American musical traditions. Gramophone credits Imani with "taking the wind quintet where it rarely ventures."

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  • Imani Winds concert to conclude Wolfeboro NH 'Friends of Music' 2022-23 season / The Conway Daily Sun
    Posted At: April 28, 2023 12:00 AM
    Imani Winds will be performing at Brewster Academy’s Anderson Hall in Wolfeboro on May 21.  The Conway Daily Sun writes……Grammy-nominated Imani Winds will be performing at Brewster Academy’s Anderson Hall at 205 S. Main St. in Wolfeboro on Sunday, May 21, at 3 p.m., , following their Carnegie Hall and Midwest Concerts.This is the final concert of Wolfeboro Friends of Music’s 2022-23 season, which ...
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  • Imani Winds are set for 'The Civil Rights Project' at Amherst College - Buckley Hall / Daily Hampshire Gazette
    Posted At: October 20, 2022 12:00 AM
    Celebrating over two decades of music making, the twice Grammy nominated Imani Winds has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds.The ensemble’s playlist embraces traditional chamber music repertoire, and as a 21st century group, Im...
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  • The Library of Congress presents the Catalyst Quartet with Imani Winds
    Posted At: February 15, 2022 12:00 AM
    The Library of Congress will present an exciting 22-event lineup of concerts, lectures, conversations with musicians and engaging educational programming in a packed spring season launching March 4. Featuring classical music, jazz and dance events, the series will offer both virtual and in-person programs.New American music is a special focus, with concerts showcasing a diverse and wide-ranging group of you...
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  • Valerie Coleman's 'Umoja' and Helene Grimaud's Bartok featured on 90.1WRTI's Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert
    Posted At: February 16, 2021 12:00 AM

    90.1WRTI's GREGG WHITESIDE writes.....Join us on Sunday, February 21st at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, February 22nd at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a rebroadcast of one of the first concerts of The Philadelphia Orchestra's 2019/2020 season, the Orchestra's 120th. The three works on the program all have roots here in America: the world premiere of a Philadelphia commission, Umoja, a colorful orches...
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  • 9 black classical performers speak with The New York Times about transforming the white-dominated field
    Posted At: July 16, 2020 12:00 AM

    With their major institutions founded on white European models and obstinately focused on the distant past, classical music and opera have been even slower than American society at large to confront racial inequity. Black players make up less than 2 percent of the nation's orchestras; the Metropolitan Opera still has yet to put on a work by a Black composer. The protests against police brutality and ...
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  • Imani Winds and Catalyst Quartet join forces for (Im)migration / San Francisco Chronicle
    Posted At: February 10, 2020 12:00 AM

    Two innovative ensembles in the world of contemporary chamber music, Imani Winds and the Catalyst Quartet, are about to join forces in San Jose on Feb 23 at the Green Music Center for a kind of chamber music summit. The heart of the program, which is titled "(Im)migration: Music of Change," will be a new work by composer Jessie Montgomery, who usually serves as the Catalyst's first violinist. Unfortu...
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  • LiveConnections welcomes Imani Winds to World Cafe Live / Broadway World
    Posted At: August 12, 2018 12:00 AM

    LiveConnections, Philadelphia's non-profit organization known for its collaborative, community music-making, turns 10 in 2018, and they'll be celebrating by doing what they do best. Their 2018-19 season features socially engaged programs and incredible musical matchmaking, with world-renowned artists teaming up with schools and community organizations in a quest to make connection through music. ...
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  • Chamber Music Northwest artists-in-residence; Imani Winds, set for 3 Portland shows / Oregon ArtsWatch
    Posted At: April 18, 2018 12:00 AM

    Classical music has a diversity problem. So it marked a turning point when the Portland classical music presenter Chamber Music Northwest announced that its next annual artists-in-residence - following the 2015-16 tenure of the storied Emerson Quartet, composed entirely of older white men - would be Imani Winds, a younger, equally talented and until recently, entirely black ensemble. Bassoonist Monic...
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  • Imani Winds presents 'Terra Incognita'
    Posted At: August 12, 2013 12:00 AM

    Imani Winds and E1 Music are pleased to announce that Imani Winds' Terra Incognita will be available on August 24. The album marks the fifth release on E1 for Imani Winds which has, since the Grammy nominated debut release in 2005, established itself as the premier wind quintet in North America. The recording - titled Terra Incognita after Wayne Shorter's piece written for the group - celebrates ...
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  • 'Self-Titled' album from the groundbreaking African/Latino woodwind quintet, Imani Winds
    Posted At: March 29, 2006 12:00 AM

    Koch International Classics is proud to announce the highly-anticipated self titled Imani Winds follow up release to the Grammy- nominated debut recording The Classical Underground by the groundbreaking African/Latino woodwind quintet. The group-Valerie Coleman, flute; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Mariam Adam, clarinet; Jeff Scott, French horn; Monica Ellis, bassoon-has been perfecting this pan-dialectical...
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  • Imani Winds' 'The Classical Underground' features music that has never been recorded by a woodwind quintet
    Posted At: January 25, 2005 12:00 AM

    Imani Winds is very excited and proud to present our sophomore CD, released on the Koch International Classics label, The Classical Underground. Following the award winning, Umoja, this entire new disc features music that has never been recorded by a woodwind quintet, which alone is a ground-breaking feat! The music of our in house composers, Jeff Scott and Valerie Coleman, are quickly becoming...
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