The Borealis Wind Quintet was founded at The Juilliard School in 1977. Three years later they made their Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall as winners of The Artist International Competition.

Nominated for a Grammy Award in the Chamber Music Category in 2006, Borealis is acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent chamber music ensembles. They have toured and recorded extensively, distinguishing themselves as cultural and educational ambassadors of the highest artistic integrity, ever embodying irresistible energy and five-fold charisma. Audiences are captivated by their exquisite programming featuring newly commissioned works, engaging collaborations, fanciful opera and pop arrangements, and the finest of the classics.

The Washington Post praised their “sensitive collaborations that have a sophisticated and cosmopolitan air.” Peter G. Davies of the New York Times described one concert as “a polished, elegantly turned performance…each work received lively, expert and musicianly treatment by this skilled and exceptionally talented chamber group.” Joseph Horowitz, also of the New York Times describes “lively communicative readings…the performance was a scintillating one.” The Philadelphia Inquirer writes that “they demonstrated the sort of rapport that characterizes the very best chamber playing.”