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The Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City is mixing it up in its season finale, taking a break from the usual lineup of string quartets to present the Imani Winds quintet.

If you think of woodwind playing as "light and fluffy," think again, Imani Winds founder and flutist Valerie Coleman said.

"We're a wild and crazy bunch," Coleman said in a phone interview from her New York City home, where she was enjoying a brief respite with her husband and 3-year-old daughter between concerts in Florida and British Columbia. "The audience might be really surprised to hear a classical wind quintet generate such sounds and interpretation."

Coleman composes or arranges much of the group's repertoire, including Monday's concert-opening arrangement of Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue," a piece popularized by John Coltrane. It's one of the pieces Imani Winds has learned by ear, and the performers will play from a standing position — gestures meant to "bring an inclusive air to the audience and break through any kinds of walls, any kinds of boundaries," she said. "I don't want to give away too much, but there is a little audience participation."

Another barrier-breaking piece, Gene Kavadio's "Klezmer Dances," will close the evening. Coleman said the piece will showcase clarinetist Mark Dover, who joined the group in January 2016. It was the first personnel change for Imani Winds, which was founded in 1997. "In a way, a new player kind of restarted or rebooted everyone," said Coleman, who noted that Dover's playing "just knocked us over" the first time he sat in with the group.

In between are four diverse pieces:

• Four movements from "Portraits of Josephine," a short ballet Coleman wrote in honor of Josephine Baker's centennial. "These are snapshots of Josephine Baker's life," she explained, from the entertainer's girlhood in St. Louis to her heyday in Paris.

• Imani Winds horn player Jeff Scott's arrangement of "Bajíssimo" by Argentinian tango master Astor Piazzolla. Coleman explained that Piazzolla, an avid player of the bandoneón (a type of concertina popular in South America), wrote "Bajíssimo" as a "huge pseudo-concerto for double bass" because the bassist in his band complained about playing the same ostinato night after night. Scott's arrangement gives the bassline to bassoonist Monica Ellis, whom Coleman described as "a monster on bassoon."

• Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos' Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon. Coleman characterized the piece as "highly substantial and very spicy."

• "Popular Brasileira" by Júlio Medaglia, four vignettes culminating in a "truly intense, but at the same time light and fun" depiction of Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

Imani Winds

P The Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City presents Imani Winds in music of Mongo Santamaria, Valerie Coleman, Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Júlio Medaglia and Gene Kavadio.

When • Monday, 7:30 p.m.

Where • Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City

Tickets • $30; cmsofslc.org

Learn more • Candice Behrmann, a professor of flute and theory at Dixie State University and a specialist in the music of Imani Winds founder Valerie Coleman, will give a preconcert lecture at 6:45 p.m.

Also • The ensemble will give a master class at noon Monday in Gardner Hall; the public is welcome to attend at no charge.