Quint-Essential Winds debuted in 2008, bringing together five musicians with more than 150 years of collective study and performance, spanning three continents. They maintain an extensive library and can play everything from a Bach Fugue to Basin Street Blues. With original works and excellent arrangements covering a wide range of repertoire and musical styles the quintet has appeared at a variety of venues and in numerous communities in Maine and New Hampshire performing recitals and at wine tastings, weddings, dinners, programs for young audiences, Christmas parties and more.

Marjorie Bollinger Hogan: Flute/Alto Flute/Piccolo
Duane Bateman: Oboe
Robert Sinclair: Clarinet
Maria Isaak: Bassoon
Stephen Taylor: Horn

Marjorie Bollinger Hogan holds a Master of Music in Applied Flute from the Hartt School of Music and a BA in Flute Performance from the University of South Florida. Her primary teachers include Martha Rearick, Linda Toote, and John Wion. Marjorie has performed with many chamber ensembles and orchestras and is currently Principal Flute of the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra. Marjorie has directed the Merrimack Valley Flute Choir since 1997. She teaches flute privately in Nashua, NH. Marjorie has served on the boards of the Greater Boston Flute Association, The Flutists' Guild, and City Arts Nashua.

Duane Bateman performed extensively in the United States and Europe with concert bands, ceremonial bands, show bands, and woodwind ensembles, including the Chamber Winds and the New England Winds from the Air Force Band of Liberty, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. He has also performed on numerous occasions with the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra and a variety of regional woodwind quintets.

Robert Sinclair started on clarinet in the mid 1950s and attended the University of Connecticut, majoring in music, until being drafted in 1966. He spent the next twenty years performing in the United States and the Pacific as a member of the United States Air Force. While stationed in Illinois, he studied with Les Scott and George Silfes, principal clarinetists with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Robert also plays bass clarinet/clarinet in the Strafford Wind Symphony and the Sea Reeds Clarinet Quartet and has played numerous shows in theaters and schools in the seacoast area.

Maria Isaak received a master’s degree in Bassoon Performance from the New England Conservatory and studied at the International School for Kodály Studies in Hungary, where she earned her Kodály Specialist Certificate. As a bassoonist, she has performed with the Portland Symphony, Indian Hill Symphony, Nashua Symphony, and the NH Philharmonic and has been a concerto soloist with orchestras in San Francisco, Chile, and China. She is on the faculty of the Concord Community Music School and also teaches bassoon and piano in Durham, New Hampshire.

Stephen Taylor plays principal horn in the New Hampshire Philharmonic. He is also a member of the Portsmouth Symphony, Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, Monument Square Brass Quintet, Quint-Essential Winds, Winchendon Winds and is active in musical pit orchestras around Southern New Hampshire. He was born and raised in a musical family in Southern California. His father was an LA studio musician and his mother was a piano teacher. He started playing horn in high school and studied under Gene Sherry and Leon Donfray. In college, he studied with Sinclair Lott. He works as an Engineer for Oracle Corporation.

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