THE OMNI ENSEMBLE CONTINUES ITS 40th SEASON WITH A WIND QUINTET AND PIANO CONCERT! The OMNI Ensemble is continuing its 40th season with a performance of wind quintet and piano music on Friday evening, March 10, 2023 at 8:00 pm at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Music Director/Flutist David Wechsler will be joined by a quintet playing Darius Milhaud’s La Cheminée Du Roi René, an arrangement of Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Francis Poulenc’s Sextet, and David Wechsler’s Divertimento. Musicians featured are David Wechsler- flute, Jeff Reinhardt – oboe; Jeff Adler – clarinet; Atsuko Sato – bassoon; Audrey Flores – horn, & John Cheek – piano. Masks and face coverings are optional for this concert, but are encouraged, Audience members are not required to show proof of full vaccination in order to attend this event.Tickets for the event are $25.00, $15.00 for students and seniors. Can’t make the concert? Join for a live stream! You can purchase tickets at Eventbrite and the link will be sent to you prior to the concert. A live stream ticket is $10. Tickets are available in advance on the OMNI Ensemble website www.theomniensemble.org or from Eventbrite at https://omnimarch10.eventbrite.com or at the door prior to the performance. For more info or reservations please call 718/859-8649.The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is located at 58 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn in easy access of public transportation. No’s 2 & 3 train to Grand Army Plaza, and the B or Q train to Seventh Avenue. The OMNI Ensemble is a chamber music created to perform programs of enormous variety, with music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century, including Western classical music, jazz, and electronic and improvised music, all designed to provide their audience with a musical experience not ordinarily encountered in a single music event. Since its inception in 1983 the group has featured many guest artists including multi instrumentalist/composer David Amram, performance artist John Kelley, Singer Erika Banks, Kumongo player Jin Hi Kim, Saxophonist Roy Nathanson, Mezzo Sopranos Catherine Ciesinski and Charlotte Hellekant, Harpsichordists Gerald Ranck and Rebecca Pechefsky, and keyboardist Marco Benevento. The group has commissioned works by David Lang, Lee Hyla, Allen Shearson, & Michael Bushnell, and performed new pieces by Jim Lahti, Eric Klein, and David Wechsler. This concert is made possible, in part with funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The New York State Council on the Arts, and Con Edison.