Ensemble Biography

Eclectic and versatile, Voyager Reed Quintet was formed in Brooklyn, New York in the summer of 2022. Our ensemble’s mission is inspired by the golden records aboard NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. The quintet aims to explore the shared humanity of our players and audiences by performing music that traverses stylistic boundaries. We are inspired by the intersections of a wide variety of music, particularly that of living composers, jazz and popular music, contemporary classical music, and older works made new to the reed quintet medium through transcriptions and arrangements.

Since its inception, Voyager Reed Quintet has performed throughout the northeast, most notably at The Juilliard School, the Imani Chamber Winds Music Festival, and Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City” Concert Series. For 2024, the quintet was selected to be the recipient of an Ensemble Forward Grant from Chamber Music America (supported by The New York Community Trust), allowing Voyager to expand the scope of its mission to include community outreach efforts, as well as working with composers Kevin Day, Andrew List, and Mara Keen to perform and record new works. In its second season (2023-24) the ensemble was a semifinalist at the 2024 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and made their international debut at the International Clarinet Association conference in Dublin. Now in its third season, the Voyager Reed Quintet has completed a tour of Texas, served as the resident chamber music ensemble for the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, and is set to release its first full-length album in summer 2025.

In high demand as educators and clinicians, Voyager Reed Quintet has been invited to give concerts and masterclasses at Boston Conservatory, University of Houston, Texas Music Educator’s Association Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca College, University of Delaware, and SUNY Oneonta.