Lumas Winds are a multi-award winning quintet at the forefront of the new generation of wind
ensembles, and have been described as an ‘effervescent wind quintet, lively in their
performance style and enterprising in their choice of repertoire’ (Seen and Heard
International). Committed ambassadors for wind chamber music and the rich variety of
repertoire it offers, they regularly feature at festivals and music clubs up and down the UK.

Winners at the 71st Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition, in April 2026 they
achieved international recognition as 1st Prizewinners of the 2026 Lyon International Chamber
Music Competition. True to their passion for contemporary music, they also won the prizes for
best interpretation of the competition’s commissioned work, Alchimie by Thibault Perrine, and
the best interpretation of a work composed after 1960, with Lalo Schifrin’s La Nouvelle
Orleans. Alongside this, they were awarded prizes from the Académie Musicale de Villacroze
and La Belle Saison, which will see them take up a residency in the south of France and a
concert tour of France, including a performance at the renowned Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
in Paris.

The ensemble released their debut album, The Naming of Birds, in May 2024 on Champs
Hill records, featuring three world premiere recordings. The disc received five star reviews
from both BBC Music Magazine and the online journal Pizzicato, and was described by
Andrew McGregor as ‘an excellent and highly enjoyable survey of the British wind quintet from
the early 1960s into this century’ (BBC Radio 3, Record Review).

They are currently featured artists with the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme as well as
the Kirckman Concerts Society, and in the past have been Tunnell Trust Young Artists, Britten
Pears Young Artists, and Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists through Making
Music. The group has featured at the Budleigh, Buxton, Corbridge, Gower, Ironstone, Lake
District, North Norfolk, Peasmarsh and Winchester chamber music festivals. This has included
several performances of Poulenc’s Sextet alongside the pianists Benjamin Frith, Huw
Watkins, and Shai Wosner, and performances of Schubert’s Octet and Beethoven’s Septet.
They made their Wigmore Hall debut in June 2023, and King’s Place debut in 2025.

Lumas Winds are ‘Ensemble in Association’ at the Royal Welsh College of Music and
Drama, where they give concerts, coaching sessions, and side-by-side performing
experiences. They also take great pride in undertaking education work in primary and
secondary schools and with music services, including at the Peasmarsh and Winchester
Chamber Music Festivals.

Lumas evolved through friendships formed at the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain,
which has resulted in a strong bond between its members, carrying the group forward with
confidence in its shared vision.