Two premier classical music ensembles — one made up of woodwinds and one brass — will perform together at 8 p.m. Friday at the Holland Performing Arts Center.
Boston Brass and Imani Winds will open this season’s Omaha Performing Arts Classical Now series. The quintets will play compositions by Miles Davis and Gil Evans.
The musicians in Boston Brass have been playing together for nearly 25 years, amassing more than 100 performances in 49 states and 21 countries. The group has helped raise more than $100,000 for VH1’s Save the Music program, providing musical instruments to schools.
The Grammy Award-nominated Imani Winds also is committed to education. The group is in the midst of its Legacy Commissioning Project, premiering and touring 10 works by a diverse group of established and emerging composers. The group planned to visit an Omaha school this week.
Imani Winds has played in the country’s major concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center.
Tickets for the show, “Sketches of Spain,” start at $19 and are available at TicketOmaha.com, at 345-0606 or at the Ticket Omaha box office in the Holland Center at 13th and Douglas Streets.
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