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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 2024 DETAILS

Rehearsals Fall Quarter Dates
Mondays from 6:30 – 8:30 pm Season 2025-26 rehearsal dates will
be announced Summer 2025.
Rehearsal Location Drop Off/ Pick Up
TBA Plan on prompt drop off and pick up to avoid
congestion.
Concert  Time & Date
TBA TBA
Retreat  Time & Date
TBA Retreats typically happen on one Saturday
in the Fall & Winter Quarters.

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

Hello Combined Flutes,

Please take a listen to the recordings linked below as you prepare for our upcoming concert at Benaroya Hall. Be sure to practice your individual part with careful attention to detail (including articulations) and to the musical aspects of the piece (dynamics, phrasing, etc.).

Abduction From the Seraglio

Larghetto

Creston “Midnight – Mexico” – Kostelanetz conducts (youtube.com)

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