CONTACT:

Jeffrey Hoffman
for Music at St. Albans
646 271 5980

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JUILLIARD FLUTE PROFESSOR CAROL WINCENC TO REPLACE INDISPOSED
TANYA WITEK IN GENTLE AND POWERFUL WINDS ON FEBRUARY 25, 2007 ON
THE MUSIC AT SAINT ALBANS SERIES
Staten Island, NY February 19, 2007 Music at Saint Albans announced today that, due to a
medical emergency, flutist Carol Wincenc will replace Tanya Witek in the Witek-BegelmanGelman Woodwind Trio, in Gentle and Powerful Winds a concert of music from the
Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth-Century eras composed or arranged for woodwind
trio on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 3:30 p.m. The concert will take place in the parish
church of historic Saint Albans Episcopal Church, 76 Saint Albans Place, Eltingville, Staten
Island 10312. Tickets for this concert are $15 for adults and $10 for senior citizens and students
and may be purchased by calling 718-984-7756 or by visiting www.MusicatSaintAlbans.org. A
gala reception in the churchs parish hall will follow the performance.
As previously announced, this exciting concert of woodwind trios will feature works by Georges
Auric, Franz Joseph Haydn (London Trio, Hob. IV, Es 1), Stephen Foster (arranged by Krystof
Witek), Scott Joplin, Ignace Pleyel (Woodwind Trio No. 2 in C major) and Franz Peter Schubert
(arranged by David Karp), among others. This program is supported, in part, by public funds
from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, by a generous grant from the Citigroup
Foundation and by a JPMorgan Chase Regrant in partnership with the Council on the Arts and
Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI).
ABOUT CAROL WINCENC
...She is one of the worlds great flutists.
- United Press International
Carol Wincenc, one of todays international stars of the flute, has appeared as soloist with major
orchestras around the world and has premiered works written for her by many of todays
prominent composers. A first prize winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition,
Ms. Wincenc has appeared with the St. Louis, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Houston and Seattle
symphonies, among others, and the Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Caramoor and Marlboro
music festivals. She has appeared in every major New York concert hall, including four
consecutive seasons in Lincoln Centers Great Performers Series. Equally in demand abroad,
Ms. Wincenc has given acclaimed performances with the London Symphony, the English and
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras and at numerous international music festivals. As a chamber
musician, Ms. Wincenc has collaborated with the Guarneri, Emerson, Tokyo and Cleveland
String Quartets and performed with such distinguished colleagues as Emanual Ax, Yo-Yo Ma,

Jessye Norman and Bella Davidovich. As a champion of contemporary works, she has premiered
and recorded Christopher Rouses flute concerto with the Detroit Symphony and Henryk
Goreckis concerto cantata with the Chicago Symphony among many other works. Ms. Wincenc
has recorded for the Musical Heritage, Decca, Nonesuch and Deutsche Grammophon labels. She
is presently professor of flute at The Juilliard School of Music in New York City.
ABOUT MUSIC AT ST. ALBANS
Music at Albans is a community outreach of Saint Albans Episcopal Church. Now in its fifth
season, this critically-acclaimed series of affordable classical concerts by international artists
regularly presents seven high caliber performances during each season ranging in scope from
solo piano recitals and small chamber ensembles to the resident Saint Albans Festival Choral
Society and Symphonia with soloists, under the baton of founding Artistic Director, Jeffrey
Hoffman. All non-gala performances of the regular season are held in historic Saint Albans
Episcopal Church in Eltingville on Staten Islands South Shore a cultural icon in the
community since 1865. Tickets and season subscriptions are available by calling 718-984-7756
or by visiting www.MusicatSaintAlbans.org. Music at Saint Albans is sponsored, in part, by
public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, by a generous grant from
the Citigroup Foundation, by a JPMorgan Chase Regrant in partnership with the Council on the
Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI), and by an Encore Grant from the Council on
the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI), with public funds from the New York
State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Saint Albans Episcopal Church is located at 76 Saint
Albans Place, Staten Island, NY 10312.
For further information about Music at Saint Albans, please contact Jeffrey Hoffman at 646271-5980.
- ### -