Concert by the East Wind Ensemble - Ticket Booking

The East Wind Ensemble has performed extensively and established an enviable reputation regionally, nationally, and internationally. The ensemble maintains a heavy concert schedule and has toured countries including Fench, Holland, Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand, Austria, Australia, Russia, Central America,Caribbean coastal area. Along with formal performances, The East Wind Ensemble has an excellent educational program of lecture/demonstrations and master classes for schools. On January 2008, The East Wind Ensemble had a 16 days tour in Germany and performed in Berlin Arts Festival .The members each have extensive solo and chamber music experience, which brings strength and creative diversity to the ensenble.

Mary Ashley Barret is the Oboe Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and has been on the faculty since 1998. A native of North Carolina, she holds the principal oboe position with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra in addition to being a frequent performer throughout the southeastern USA. She has appeared as soloist with the Salisbury Symphony, the Florida State Wind Orchestra, the UNCG Orchestra, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, and has presented numerous guest recitals and master classes throughout the United States, Caribbean, Central America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. An avid champion of the chamber ensemble, Barret performs regularly with the Cascade Wind Quintet, the EastWind Trio d’Anches, TreVent and has spent several summers playing chamber music in the Adirondacks of New York. In 2003, Barret was co-host for the International Double Reed Society’s 32nd annual Conference. Most recently, in 2005, the EastWind Trio d’Anches made their Carnegie-Hall debut. Barret's degrees include the Doctor of Music from Florida State University, the Master of Music from Baylor University, and the Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music.

Jonathan Salter grew up in Oberlin ,Ohio, and received his Bachelor of Arts dgree at Williams College where he majored in music (graduating with highest honors) and mathematics. He received his Master of Music degree from Indiana University. Jonathan was the associate principal clarinetist for the Berkshire Symphony from 1998 to 2002, and was selected to perform Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie with the orchestra for the concerto competition in 2001. He was the recipient of the Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship from Williams College, the Excellence Fellowship from UNCG and also received the Leopold Schepp Foundation Fellowship. Jonathan’s teachers include Michèle Gingras, Susan Martula, Alan Kay, Eli Eban, Howard Klug, and he is currently working on his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at UNCG with Dr. Kelly Burke. Jonathan is also active as a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music, an avid klezmer musician, and his research surrounds intersections between contemporary mathematics and music theory.

Steve Stusek has earned an international reputation for virtuosic performances of standard and new works for the saxophone as well as for his engaging master classes and clinics. A founding member of both the acclaimed Red Clay Sax Quartet and the UNCG Quatuor d’Anches, he has won the prestigious Dutch Chamber Music Competition as part of the saxophone-accordion duo 2Track with Dutch accordion player Otine van Erp. Along with degrees from Indiana University (BM, DM) and Arizona State University (MM), Stusek has studied at the Paris Conservatoire and the Conservatoire de la Region de Paris, where he earned the Prix d'Or à l'Unanimité in saxophone performance. He is also founder and host of the Carolina Saxophone Symposium,. In addition to being performing artist for the Vandoren and Selmer companies.

Kelly Burke joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1989. She is currently the principal clarinetist of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and bass clarinetist of the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. Equally at home playing Baroque to Bebop, she has appeared in recitals and as a soloist with symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia. An avid chamber musician, Burke is frequently heard in concert with the Mallarmé Chamber Players, for whom she plays both clarinet and bass clarinet, the East Wind Trio d'Anches, Middle Voices (clarinet, viola and piano), and the Cascade Wind Quintet. Burke's discography includes several recent releases with Centaur Records: The Russian Clarinet, with works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Glinka, Melkikh, and Goedicke; Middle Voices: Chamber Music for Clarinet and Viola, featuring works by several American composers; and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Chamber Music featuring the quintet and nonet.

Michael Burns holds the BM degree from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, the MM from the New England Conservatory, and the DMA from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Burns has performed in numerous professional orchestras including the Cincinnati and the New Zealand Symphonies and played Principal in the Midland/Odessa, Richmond and Abilene Symphonies; and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Prior to UNCG he taught at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Indiana State University, and Midland College. He remains active as a solo and chamber performer with numerous performances at International Double Reed Society conventions, recitals and master classes throughout North America and the South Pacific, and is bassoonist in the EastWind Ensemble and the Cascade Quintet. He has recorded for the Centaur, CAP, Telarc, EMI, Klavier, and Mark labels. His mentors include William Winstead, Sherman Walt, Leonard Sharrow, and Colin Hemmingsen. . Burns is a Yamaha Performing Artist.