Now in its 30th season, Zéphyros Winds brings together five virtuosic soloists to perform a wide range of music for winds with “impeccable precision and rapt lyricism.” (The Chicago Sun Times). The ensemble gained attention in 1995, when, one year after its formation, it won both the First and Grand Prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, becoming the first wind quintet in the competition’s history to do so.
Zéphyros had its New York concerto debut opening the 2004 Mostly Mozart Festival and has since appeared at the nation’s most prestigious concert venues, including The Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Dumbarton Oaks, Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China.
Also recognized for their exceptional work as educators, Zéphyros has given master classes at UNCSA, The Yale University School of Music, The Juilliard School and The Eastman School of Music, among numerous others.
The five members of Zéphyros Winds – Jennifer Grim (flute and piccolo), Fatma Daglar (oboe and English horn), Marianne Gythfeldt (clarinet and bass clarinet), Saxton Rose (bassoon) and Zohar Schondorf (horn) – all enjoy accomplished chamber and orchestra careers, as well as teaching and administrative positions at some of the country’s finest music schools.