Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra performs! March 27, 2010

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra
performs
Tchaikovsky, Symphony NO.5
Prokofiev, Violin Concerto no.1
Featuring soloist Masha Lankovsky
Ravel, The Empress and the Pagoda

Saturday, March 27, 7:30pm
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
75 Hicks Street, Brooklyn
$15/$8 students & seniors

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra, Dorothy Savitch music director, presents Tchaikovsky's great Fifth Symphony on Saturday March 27, 2010, 7:30 pm at Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn Heights. Tickets are $15/8 and can be purchased by going to www.bqcm.org or www.bcco.info and by calling Zerve tickets services at 212. 209. 3370.

Also featured on the program is Prokofiev's violin concerto no.1 with soloist Masha Lankovsky. Ms. Lankovsky has performed throughout the United States and Europe as a solo, chamber, and orchestral player. She has participated in international festivals including Britten Pears in England, Schleswig Holstein in Germany and the American Conservatoire at Fontainebleau in France. Based in New York, Masha Lankovsky is an active freelance musician and has worked with the ARYO chamber players, the S.E.M. ensemble, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, and the Omni Ensemble among others. Born in Moscow, Masha Lankovsky grew up in New Zealand and Australia where she first began studying music. She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington under the guidance of Nelli Shkolnikova. Recently she was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Masha Lankovsky is presently on the faculty of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, where she is also the Director of the Classical Division.

Now in its eighth year, the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra has generated excitement with its community involvement, bold programming, and exciting music making. Last spring the orchestra appeared at the Irondale Center with the clowning troupe the Maestrosities in two performances of the “William Tell Overture” and “Peter and the Wolf”. The result of “orchestra meets clowns” was what might be best described as hysterically innovative.

In a grand event, the BCCO also collaborated with the Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale in Francois Poulenc’s Gloria, and Ralph Vaughan Williams “Toward the Unknown Region”. The BCCO’s players are a mixture of musical amateurs and professionals living and working in and around Park Slope. Since 2002 they have expanded from a modest group of thirty to an ensemble of over 75. When not playing as a full orchestra, many of the musicians have organized themselves to play chamber music together, and have performed at neighborhood schools, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, churches, and even the local subway stop!

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit community schools of the arts in the nation. The Conservatory serves more than 7,000 people each year, of all ages and backgrounds, through free and subsidized music instruction; education and music therapy programs in over 50 schools and community-based organizations; and free and inexpensive concerts. For a concert calendar and brochure about programs and lessons, please call 718-622-3300 or visit the Conservatory’s website at www.bqcm.org.

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