Lumas Winds Bring Diverse Programme To Skipton Music Series

The next concert in Skipton Music’s 78th season sees the versatile Lumas Winds come to Skipton Town Hall on Tue Dec 2nd with a concert spanning delicate offerings from Mozart through to the jazz harmonies of film composer Lalo Schifrin.

Lumas Winds are passionate ambassadors for wind chamber music, known for their vibrant performances and imaginative programming. Winners of multiple prizes, they appear regularly at major UK festivals and music clubs, earning praise as an ‘effervescent wind quintet, lively in their performance style and enterprising in their choice of repertoire’ (Seen and Heard International).

Their debut album, The Naming of Birds, celebrates under-represented British works from 1960–2010, including world premieres by Beamish, Higgins, and Maconchy. Described by BBC Radio 3’s Andrew McGregor as ‘an excellent and highly enjoyable survey of the British wind quintet,’ the recording also earned them the Royal Academy of Music’s Historical Women Composers Prize.

You can look forward to some incredible playing from this young ensemble as they work their way through this ambitious and playful programme.