Flutist to accompany YSO

Staff report

YounGstown

Flute students and teachers will find Saturday’s concert by the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra of special interest.

That’s because renowned flutist Carol Wincenc will join the YSO and conductor Randall Craig Fleischer in the Lucas Foss Renaissance Concerto. Flute students, teachers and their family members can get discount tickets by calling 330-744-0264.

The concert will begin with Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade.” The orchestra will conclude the program with the Mozart Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter.”

Since winning the top prize in the 1978 solo Namburg Flute Competition, Wincenc had been one of the nation’s most-beloved and celebrated flutists. As a muse of today’s most prominent composers, she has performed on Grammy-nominated recordings and in premieres of works written for her, including the Foss concerto.

During this past year, Wincenc performed six newly commissioned works by Joan Tower, Jake Heggie, Shih-Hui Chen, Thea Musgrave, Jonathan Berger and Andre Clearfield.

Born to musician parents in Buffalo, N.Y., Wincenc is a professor of music on the faculties of Indiana University, Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School. She is a member of the New York Wind Quintent and founder of Les Amies, a trio with harpist Nancy Allen and violinist Cynthia Phelps.