Wednesday Concert Series: Lumas Winds

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Beth Stone: flute

Chris Vettraino: oboe

Rennie Sutherland: clarinet

Flo Plane: basson

Benjamin Hartnell-Booth: horn

Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila

Bach: Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV1013

Amy Beach:, Pastorale For Wind Quintet Op.151

Endre Szervánszky: Wind Quintet No.1

Franz Danzi: Wind Quintet in G minor Op.56 No.2

Shostakovich:, Suite for Wind Quintet

Timothy Jackson: Etude: Don't Make It Bad

Luciano Berio: Opus Number Zoo

Lalo Schifrin: La Nouvelle Orleans

Lumas Winds are an exciting young quintet who have put together for us a programme of highly entertaining music.

Lumas Winds are committed ambassadors for wind chamber music and the rich variety of repertoire it offers. As winners of numerous prizes, regularly featuring at festivals and music clubs up and down the UK, they have firmly established themselves as a group to watch and have been described as an ‘effervescent wind quintet, lively in their performance style and enterprising in their choice of repertoire’. Seen and Heard International.

Lumas evolved through friendships formed at the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, with the ensemble being established in 2018. The ensemble released their debut album, The Naming of Birds, in May 2024 for Champs Hill records. The disc highlights their passion as advocates for works that deserve recognition and was described by Andrew McGregor as ‘an excellent and highly enjoyable survey of the British wind quintet from the early 1960s into this century’ (BBC Radio 3, Record Review). Six hidden gems feature from each decade from 1960 to 2010 including three world première recordings by Beamish, Higgins, and Maconchy. Prior to recording, the group won the Royal Academy of Music's Historical Women Composers Prize for a performance of the Elizabeth Maconchy Wind Quintet (1980). They made their Wigmore Hall debut in June 2023 with an energised performance of Lalo Schifrin's La Nouvelle Orleans.

Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.