Winsor Music, Neighbor

Founded in 1996 by oboist Peggy Pearson, the mission of Winsor Music, Inc. is to foster the appreciation and enjoyment of chamber music. The organization consists of four branches: a vibrant chamber music concert series given in Massachusetts at the Follen Community Church in Lexington and St. Paul’s Church in Brookline; a program to develop new repertoire for oboe by commissioning new works and arranging existing chamber repertoire to include the oboe; a highly successful outreach program, in which students and professional musicians from the Boston area perform chamber music in retirement communities, schools, rehabilitation centers and recovery homes; the Bach Institute, a collaboration with Emmanuel Music and Oberlin College which aims to expose a new generation of students to Bach arias and involve them in outreach.