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Combined Flutes – Flute Choir & Flute Orchestra (Fall Quarter 2025)

Rehearsals will be held on Monday evenings from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Musicians are expected to arrive and be prepared to rehearse 15 minutes prior to start time.

FALL QUARTER 2025 DETAILS

Rehearsals Fall Quarter Dates
Mondays from 6:30 – 8:30 pm 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/17
There is no rehearsal on 11/10 (Veteran’s Day)
Rehearsal Location Drop Off/ Pick Up
Odle Middle School Plan on prompt drop off and pick up to avoid
502 143rd Ave NE congestion.
Bellevue, WA 98007
Retreat Location   Time & Date
Lake Washington High School Saturday, October 11
12033 NE 80th St. 10:00am – 2:00pm
Kirkland, WA 98033
Concert Time & Date
Benaroya Hall Sunday, November 23 @ 3pm
200 University Street ALL DAY. Exact details will be posted here at a
Seattle, WA 98101 later date.

Student Checklist

  • Bring a music stand
  • Bring a pencil
  • Print your sheet music prior to first rehearsal (using link at top of this page) and bring with you to rehearsal
  • Arrive 15 minutes prior to the start of rehearsal to ensure you are in your chair and ready to play at the start of rehearsal
  • Have fun!

About

Every two years BYSO produces a concert at Benaroya Hall that features its most advanced ensembles. For this bi-annual performance, Flute Choir and Flute Orchestra combine for a spectacular performance on the concert hall stage and for a pre-concert performance in the lobby. Additionally, every December these groups combine for BYSO’s annual Holiday Flute Tour.

For the first time these two events are occurring in the same quarter, so the groups will be paired together for the entirety of Fall Quarter.

Recent Combined Flute Performance at Benaroya Hall

Conductor: Dr. Merrie Siegel Parmley

Dr. Merrie Siegel Parmley holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Rice University. She won the New York Flute Club’s Young Artist Competition at age 19 and since then has performed with the Houston Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Spokane Symphony, and Mozart Society of Philadelphia, among others. Learn more.

Contact Dr. Merrie Siegel Parmley at flutechoir@byso.org

Messages from the Conductor

Greetings, Amazing Flutists in Flute Orchestra and Flute Choir —

Welcome (back) to BYSO!  I hope that you had a relaxing summer.

We have an incredibly exciting season planned, including our first concert in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, our one and only Flute Caroling Tour throughout the Eastside and a possible guest master class!

Please be sure to check both this message page as well as your email regularly for pertinent information about part assignments and music downloads as well as info regarding our Parent Meeting on September 15.

I can’t wait to get to fluting with all of you!

~Dr. Merrie

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