Hailed a “superb ensemble” by New Music Connoisseur, New York-based Sospiro Winds has established itself as an exciting new force on the chamber music scene. Originally formed in 2004, the ensemble began performing while at the Yale School of Music. Since then, Sospiro has continued its efforts to bring the wind quintet repertoire to many varied audiences throughout the United States.

Recent highlights include Sospiro’s third season with Musical Connections, a program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Institute of Music, performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, visits to Rutgers University and Boston Conservatory, and a performance at Le Poisson Rouge. In 2010, Sospiro participated in Chamber Music Northwest’s inaugural Protege Project in Portland, OR. In 2008, Sospiro celebrated its Carnegie Hall debut in Zankel Hall presented by the Yale at Carnegie Series. Other projects in recent seasons have included performances presented by Music Mondays, Bedford Chamber Concerts, Wintergreen Performing Arts (Virginia), Eupraxia Arts & Music Collective, Elderconcerts at Evergreen Woods, the Second Instrumental Unit, and Trinity Church Wall Street on its Concerts-at-One series.

Interested in promoting new repertoire for the wind quintet, the ensemble has premiered new works by Lembit Beecher, James Borchers, Donald Hagar, and Matthew Barnson, and Douglas Fisk. Sospiro has been heard on WSHU performing new music by Nicholas Skedgell.

Sospiro has collaborated with chamber artists such as David Shifrin, William Purvis, Milan Turkovic, Alessio Bax, and others. The group has also worked with members of the Moran Wind Quintet and the Chiara String Quartet while in residency at the Chamber Music Institute in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The ensemble was a finalist in the 2008 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and won the Silver Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2007. Announced as winners of the Yale Chamber Music Competion in 2006, Sospiro performed on the Chamber Music Society at Yale Concert Series.

Sospiro Winds consists of wind soloists Kelli Kathman (flute), Carl Oswald (oboe), Romie de Guise-Langlois (clarinet), Adrian Morejon (bassoon) and Alana Vegter (horn).