CONTACT: Jeffrey Hoffman for Music at St. Alban’s 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 ALBAN’S SERIES

Staten Island, NY – February 19, 2007 – Music at Saint Alban’s announced today that, due to a medical emergency, flutist Carol Wincenc will replace Tanya Witek in the Witek-Begelman-Gelman 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 Alban’s Episcopal Church, 76 Saint Alban’s 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 church’s 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 world’s great flutists.” - United Press International

Carol Wincenc, one of today’s 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 today’s 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 Center’s “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 Rouse’s flute concerto with the Detroit Symphony and Henryk Gorecki’s 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. ALBAN’S Music at Alban’s is a community outreach of Saint Alban’s 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 Alban’s 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 Alban’s Episcopal Church in Eltingville on Staten Island’s 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 Alban’s 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 Alban’s Episcopal Church is located at 76 Saint Alban’s Place, Staten Island, NY 10312. For further information about Music at Saint Alban’s, please contact Jeffrey Hoffman at 646-271-5980.

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