Faculty woodwind quintet, Opus 5, to perform Ravel work in concert at WFU Feb. 24

Opus 5, the Wake Forest University Faculty Woodwind Quintet, will perform Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall inside the Scales Fine Arts Center. The concert’s highlight will be the premiere performance of Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet.

The show is free and open to the public.

Members of Opus 5 are Kathryn Levy, flute; Steve Jones, oboe; Linda Julian, clarinet; Jon Julian, bassoon; and Robert Campbell, horn.

The Ravel String Quartet was transcribed for woodwind quintet by Winston-Salem bassoonist Mark Popkin. He is the principal bassoonist with the Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad Symphony.

The program will also feature “Quintet in E flat” by Anton Reicha and “Sonatine” by Marcel Bitsch.

For more information, call 336-758-5364.

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