Chamber concert next Thursday Pavia Winds (Justin Windschitl, Gina Monge, Emily Sapa, Sarah Carmack and Ryan Golden) will perform a concert of chamber music on the Staples Motley Area Arts Council Staples Motley native, Justin Windschitl, will return to his hometown to lead the Pavia Winds, a woodwind quintet, in a program of chamber music on the Staples Motley Area Arts Council’s Concert Series. The program is Thursday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Motley.

The concert will include music of Persichetti, Harbison, Piazzolla, and D’Rivera. For more information on this concert, and the rest of their season, check out the Arts Council’s website at www. staplesmotleyarts.org

Justin Windschitl is already legend in local music lore. His teachers were always sure that he was good, but weren’t quite sure how good he was.

Bassoonist Charles Ulery of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra had Windschitl in a master class when the SPCO was playing in Staples, while Windschitl was a student in high school. When asked how good Windschitl was, he commented that he had only had two students better and one of them was playing in the Chicago Symphony.

Justin Windschitl Windschitl continued his studies at St. Olaf on a music scholarship and as a freshmen became the principal bassoonist in both the top orchestra and the top band.

After majoring in music and English, as well as American Racial Multicultural Studies at St. Olaf, Windschitl made an abrupt change of course and received his law degree from the University of St. Thomas. He is now an attorney with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis but music is still a passion.

He has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, and as principal bassoon of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. He has participated in a number of music festivals and was twice featured on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”

Besides Windschitl, other players in The Pavia Winds are flutist Emily Sapa, Gina Monge on horn, Ryan Golden on clarinet, and Sarah Carmack on oboe.

Tickets are available from the Centennial Auditorium Box Office at 218- 894-5416 or 800-213-6877. The Arts Council has two new ways to save on tickets. Anyone purchasing six or more advance sale tickets to any event, or series of events will receive the special season price. Student are eligible for rush tickets one hour before the show.