Around 1950, members of the then Orquesta Filarmonica de Mexico, directed by Sergiu Celibidache, formed what was likely the first wind quintet in Mexico. In 1954, the orchestra became the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional, and the ensemble was called the Quinteto de Alientos de Belas Artes.
Their venue was the House of the Lake, in the Bosque de Chapultepec, an open stage where they premiered and made heard the music of the wind quintet in Mexico. The group dissolved in 1970 after the death of one its members. Thirty-six years later, in 2006, another group was created with the same name and resources.

The Quinteto de Alientos de Bellas Artes belongs to the group of Performers of Fine Arts of the Coordinacion Nacional de Musica y Opera, and performs the very important and abundant repertoire for this attractive and versatile instrumental combination, for which numerous composters - since the 18th century up to the present - have written or adapted works. Thanks to the fact that this combination provides innumerable sonorous posibilities, the ensemble also has at its disposal a great quantity and diversity of music for five or fewer wind instruments, with or without a soloist.

The Quinteto de Alientos de Bellas Artes is formed by musicians who have had excellent careers, as soloists, in symphonic and chamber orchestras. These members are: Rafael Urrusti (flute), Carmen Thierry (oboe), Manuel Hernandez (clarinet), Jon Gustely (French horn) and Gerardo Ledezma (bassoonist), who perform regularly with orchestras in Mexico and abroad. In their distinguished individual careers they have been both performers and teachers in institutions of various countries, and they have recorded works written for them by renowned composers.