The BCCO Presents: Mendelssohn, Gipps & Hindson

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.

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).