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Contact Information
Location
Durham, North Carolina
Early Music Skills & Interests
Bassoon, Clarinet, Dulcian, Flute, Oboe, Other Wind, Percussion, Recorder, Renaissance WindsEarly Music Affiliations
Biography
Period woodwind specialist, Charles Wines is a native of the Kansas City area and has performed with Piffaro: the Renaissance Band, the Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City, the Kansas City Baroque Consortium, and St. Michael’s Baroque Ensemble. He is founder and director of Forgotten Clefs, a Renaissance wind band who performed at the Boston Early Music Festival in 2015. He is also a founding member of Opera Nova, a group dedicated to 17th century instrumental music. He studied modern bassoon at UMKC and modern oboe at the University of Central Missouri. He completed a Masters in Early Music in the Historical Performance Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he currently a doctoral student. Charles enjoys making reeds for all historical double reed instruments, and is now building copies of instruments from the Renaissance.