About Sylvan Winds
The Sylvan Winds, an integral part of New York City’s cultural offerings, has earned both critical and audience acclaim for its spirited performances and innovative programming. Exploring the entire body of work of chamber music for wind instruments, it is the only group of its kind to present an annual concert series in the city. Inaugurated at the historic Church of St. Luke in-the-Fields in Greenwich Village, it has just completed 46 seasons.
The Sylvan Winds have performed regularly in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall since 1982. That summer also marked the beginning of their affiliation with Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, presenting outdoor pre-concert wind serenades and Avery Fisher Hall pre-concert programs. They also joined with the festival’s winds in performances of the Mozart Gran Partita (K. 361/370a) and Handel’s original orchestration of the Royal Fireworks music.
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Sylvan Winds Announce a New Flutist!
Isabel Lepanto Gleicher is an acclaimed flutist, composer, and visual artist, lauded by The New York Times as “excellent,” with composer John Zorn describing her as “inspiring” and “stunningly musical.” As an artist member of several new music ensembles, including the…
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Meet Svjetlana Kabalin, founder and artistic director of the Sylvan Winds
Watch the new video conversation with Stephanie Griffin and flutist Svjetlana Kabalin, founder and artistic director of the Sylvan Winds, a wind quintet she has led for over 46 years. Kabalin reflects on growing up in a musical family, her early fascination with opera…
Resonant Worlds album released
Our newest CD of newly-commissioned music, RESONANT WORLDS, was released on Albany records on December 5, 2025. With a grant awarded from Chamber Music America, the Sylvan Winds recorded four recent commissions by women composers — all written for wind quintet, one…