Kara LaMoure

Kara LaMoure is bassoonist and Artistic Director of WindSync, one of North America’s most active and acclaimed wind quintets. With WindSync, she has performed on stages including Ravinia, Strathmore, and Chamber Music Northwest and carried out residencies at New World Symphony, Eastman School of Music, University of Texas, and music festivals throughout the United States. She has also facilitated the commissioning and recording of wind quintets by Marc Mellits, Ivan Trevino, Erberk Eryilmaz, Miguel del Aguila, and Mason Bynes, plus recent premieres by Viet Cuong and Nathalie Joachim. LaMoure has performed as a soloist with ROCO, Caroga Arts Collective and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. She is a founding member of the viral chamber-comedy group the Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet, which has forged a special connection with thousands of young musicians and found broad appeal in venues from Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall to Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture and the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island. Her interest in the creation and curation of music has led to premieres of works for solo bassoon by Akshaya Avril Tucker and Adeliia Faizullina, and she is a prolific arranger of chamber music for winds. LaMoure earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Northwestern University, where she studied with John Hunt and Christopher Millard, and she is an alumna of Eastman’s cutting-edge Institute for Music Leadership. Between performances, she likes to explore her New York City neighborhood on foot and feed her interests in writing and visual art.