Past Events

May 2024
May 04
May 04, 2024

Calico Winds is delighted to present three charming and innovative works. The joyful, single movement Wind Quintet by Manny Mendelson will be followed by Robert Muczynski’s edgy and animated Quintet […]

July 2023
Jul 17
Jul 17, 2023

The music for this program is inspired by animals and nature. Works by: Adrienne Albert, Jenni Brandon, Gavin Brown, and Raymond David Burkhart.

March 2023
Mar 15
Mar 15, 2023

The program will include the charming Quintet No. 3 (1802) by Giuseppe Cambini (1802) and the playful Clown Music (1968) by Teresa Procaccini.

July 2022
Jul 18
Jul 18, 2022

Edendale Up Close Concert — July 18, 2022 With Zoom Q & A. Presenting music by:  Gwyneth Walker, David Baker, Ihor Shamo, William Grant Still and Valerie Coleman

April 2022
Apr 20
Apr 20, 2022

Presenting music by:  Gwyneth Walker, David Baker, Ihor Shamo, William Grant Still and Valerie Coleman

July 2021
Jul 26
Jul 26, 2021

With Zoom Q & A Performing Music by Charles Koechlin (horn & clarinet), Willson Osborne (solo clarinet), David Amram (solo horn), Francis Poulenc (clarinet duo) and George Frideric Handel (two […]

December 2020
Dec 09
Dec 09, 2020

Performing J.S. Bach, George Bizet, William Grant Still, Bohuslav Martinů, and music of the season

November 2020
Nov 18
Nov 18, 2020

Performing Music by Charles Koechlin (horn & clarinet), Willson Osborne (solo clarinet), David Amram (solo horn), Francis Poulenc (clarinet duo) and George Frideric Handel (two clarinets & horn)

November 2019
Nov 16
Nov 16, 2019

Jocelyn Hagen, new commission

August 2019
Aug 17
Aug 17, 2019

Works by Michael Kibbe, Raymond David Burkhart, Bill Douglas, John Steinmetz and Carolyn Bremer

Aug 07
Aug 07, 2019

Works by Carolyn Bremer, Bill Douglas and John Steinmetz

May 2019
May 01
September 2018
Sep 19
Sep 19, 2018

Ladder Variations by well-known Los Angeles composer and educator George Heussenstamm and a premier of a quintet written for them by noted film composer John Scott

May 2018
May 02
May 02, 2018

J.S. Bach and Jan Bach’s Skizzen: Suite for Woodwind Quintet after the drawings of Heinrich Kley

November 2017
Nov 01
Nov 01, 2017

Music by Lowell Mason, William Mason and Daniel Gregory Mason

June 2017
Jun 02
Jun 02, 2017

Wind Quintets of William Mason, J.S. Bach, Gwyneth Walker

May 2017
May 17
May 17, 2017

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Malcolm Arnold, Joseph Canteloube

April 2017
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2017

Music of Darius Milhaud and Claude Arrieu

July 2016
Jul 09
Jul 09, 2016

Featuring the music of local composer Ray Burkhart, Dutch composer Jurriaan Andriessen and a Tango transcription by local arranger Charles Warren.

Jul 06
Jul 06, 2016

Toot, Suite Arcata, Watercolor Menagerie: Music of Raymond David Burkhart

May 2016
May 04
May 04, 2016

The whole quintet returns with music of Jurriaan Andriessen and Arie Malando (Maasland)

February 2016
Feb 03
Feb 03, 2016

A wonderful work by Malcolm Arnold for flute, violin, viola, horn and bassoon. And a charming wind trio by classical composer Jacques Widerkehr

October 2015
Oct 07
Oct 07, 2015

Malcolm Arnold-Fantasy for Horn, Willson Osborne-Rhapsody for Bassoon, Carl Nielson-Concerto for Flute

May 2015
May 20
May 20, 2015

From the Baroque to the 'hear' and now. Works by Koechlin, Graun, Beethoven, Schocker and Einem

February 2015
Feb 04
Feb 04, 2015

Featuring a premiere of a work by Daniel Baldwin, in addition to Mahler songs and excerpts from Luciano Berio's Opus Number Zoo

October 2014
Oct 15
Oct 15, 2014

Quintets by Béla Bartók, Ferenc Farkas & György Ligeti. Solo clarinet works by Béla Kovács

May 2014
May 07
May 07, 2014

The flea circus comes to town with music by Teresa Procaccini and Karl L. King

February 2014
Feb 19
Feb 19, 2014

Playing music of W.A. Mozart, Los Angeles composer Lou Rovner and Finnish composer Jukka Viitasaari

October 2013
Oct 16
Oct 16, 2013

Join us as we re-explore standards of the wind quintet repertoire with a performance of the majestic wind quintet by famed Danish composer, Carl Nielsen.