The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra presents Mendelssohn, Gipps & Hindson

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra presents Mendelssohn Gipps & Hindson on Saturday March 15 2025 at 7:30pm at St. Saviour High School 588 6th St Brooklyn NY 11215. Tickets are $25 General / $15 Students & Seniors and are available at https://bkcm.org/event/bcco-march15/

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra returns to Brooklyn’s Saint Saviour High School led by Music Director Dorothy Savitch. Join the Orchestra at 7:30 pm for performances of Mendelssohn’s Symphony no. 3 colloquially known as “The Scottish” Ruth Gipps’ Chanticleer Overture and Matthew Hindson’s House Music a concerto for solo flute and orchestra featuring flutist Alice Jones.

The evening will open with the American premiere of Ruth Gipps' Chanticleer Overture inspired by Rostand's play "Chantecler." Then in his wild "House Music" for flute and orchestra Australian composer Matthew Hindson brings the rhythms and harmonies of techno music into a virtuosic flute concerto. The amazing flutist Alice Jones will rock the house when she joins the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra as soloist. Finally many composers dedicate their music to famous places but few have ever harnessed their inspiration by a place as profoundly as Felix Mendelssohn does in his Symphony #3 “The Scottish.” Music Director Dorothy Savitch leads the BCCO in this masterpiece which captures the majesty and magic of the Scottish Highlands and the tempestuous seas that surround.

Raised in Austin TX Alice Jones is a flutist composer teacher and administrator. Her multi-faceted career welcomes new listeners into the world of music and she pushes against the boundaries of what it means to be a musician whose voices can be heard and what success looks like. An avid chamber theater and contemporary performer Alice was praised by Mario Davidovsky as “the flute player who could really play” and Fanfare Magazine called her 2017 album with Ensemble 365 “pretty music faultless… required listening.” Her performances are “lively” (New York Times) “superb” (Carole Farley soprano) and “delicate and passionate with beautiful articulation and dynamics” (Eleanor Cory composer). She has performed with International Contemporary Ensemble Ensemble Échappé Sugar Hill Salon Look and Listen Festival Composers Now Festival Yale-China Music Exchange Chamber Music Campania and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. She is a member of The Curiosity Cabinet whose theatrical and interdisciplinary performances blend music with film puppetry dance and acting. Her recent compositions include commissions from Amity Trio Decoda (Carnegie Hall) Gaudete Brass Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Millikin University and the Phoenix Orchestra (Boston). alicehjones.com

The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is a 127-year-old non-profit community music school. Our Park Slope home offers private music lessons group classes ensembles and music therapy as well as 17 beautiful affordable rehearsal studios open to all musicians. Throughout New York City BKCM provides music education music therapy services and opportunities for musical engagement at more than 80 sites across all five boroughs. BKCM’s programs reach more than 10000 New Yorkers from all walks of life. https://bkcm.org

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra (BCCO) is a passionate and diverse group of dedicated amateur and professional musicians who perform the great masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire from Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky to contemporary works by living composers. Now in its 23rd year BCCO’s members feel more keenly than ever the profound joys of playing and sharing some of the world’s most beautiful music. The 72-member ensemble is composed of players from all walks of life from middle-school art teachers to law professors and local baristas. Open by audition to adult orchestral musicians who play at an advanced level the BCCO presents four to six concerts for the community throughout the year including a popular family concert at the Brooklyn Museum. https://bkcm.org/bcco/

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