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Carol Wincenc ( ) born June 29, 1949, is an American flute based in New York City. She is known for her solo and chamber music performances and her support of new music for the flute. She is on the faculty of the Juilliard School and Stony Brook University.
In the 1980s she became a professor of flute at The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University. She has taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University, and Rice University.
Wincenc has been a soloist with the Chicago, San Francisco and London Symphonies, the Netherlands Concertgebouw, and the Warsaw Philharmonic. She has appeared as a performer and teacher at Aspen, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, and Music@Menlo music festivals.
She was soloist in the American Ballet Theatre's 2001 premier of the Pied Piper.
Wincenc has performed with the Guarneri, Emerson, Tokyo, and Cleveland string quartets and with pianist Emanuel Ax and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The Los Angeles Times described her playing as "brilliant but effortless virtuosity" and praised her "lush tone." "Music Review : Muir Quartet And Flutist Wincenc At Ambassador". Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1986 by DANIEL CARIAGA She is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet with fellow Juilliard faculty and she is a founding member of "Trio Les Amies". "Presenting a shiny gem in an unusual setting." New York Times Review
Wincenc has served as a judge for the Rampal and Kobe International Flute Competitions. She has commissioned more than 30 pieces for the flute by leading composers including Samuel Adler, David Del Tredici, Henryk Górecki, George Rochberg, and others. "Rootin', Flutin' 40th Season". by Barrymore Laurence Scherer Wall Street Journal Online, Feb. 17, 2010
In "Carol Wincenc Valentines," published by Carl Fischer, she introduced 11 new works for flute including pieces by Paul Schoenfield, Roberto Sierra, Peter Schickele, Tobias Picker, and Michael Torke, among others.
She performed the world premieres of Christopher Rouse's flute concerto, Henryk Gorecki's Concerto-Cantata and Lukas Foss's Renaissance Concerto. In 1979, Donal Henahan, reviewer for The New York Times, wrote that the premiere of Daniel Paget's "Romania!" written for Carol Wincenc "raised the audience to heaven." "Concert, Carol Wincenc, Flutist". By DONAL HENAHAN New York Times Apr24 1979. In the 2009–10 season Wincenc performed for the first time six newly commissioned works by composers Joan Tower, Jake Heggie, Thea Musgrave, Shih-Hui Chen, Andrea Clearfield, and Jonathan Berger.
In 2005 at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards the small ensemble of which Wincenc is a part was nominated for a Grammy Award for a recording of Yehudi Wyner's works. A recording of Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto for Telarc, on which she performed with Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony, was awarded the Diapason d'Or.
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