BCCO Perform Stravinsky: Firebird Suite, Turina: Danzas Fantasticas, & Puccini: arias from La Boheme with Mariana Aslan, soprano December 4, 2010

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra, Dorothy Savitch music director, presents a program of Stravinsky, Turina and Puccini at St Saviour High School, Park Slope, Brooklyn. 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.

About Mariana Aslan

Mariana Aslan, (Brooklyn Conservatory Faculty Member) is a soprano born in Argentina. She graduated in Choral Conducting from the "J. J. Castro" Conservatory (Buenos Aires), where she also studied piano. In the US she studied at the Manhattan School of Music, and got a master's in Voice performance from CUNY-Brooklyn College.

Ms Aslan has performed in operas, recitals, symphonic concerts, and plays in the US, Italy, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. She currently performs with Opera on Tap, and in other diverse engagements.

Mariana's pedagogic activities include teaching (a vast experience in Argentina, Brooklyn College, the Met Opera Guild, Brooklyn Conservatory, her private studio) and performing (Song as a Second Language, Met Opera Guild). She teaches vocal technique to students with different backgrounds and goals (classical, music theater, pop, etc), and music theory and ear training. She believes in developing a healthy vocal technique that frees each singer to take decisions about his/her own voice, whatever he/she wants to sing.

About BCCO

Now in its ninth year, the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra has generated excitement with its community involvement, bold programming, and exciting music making. Last spring the orchestra’s 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 Vaughn 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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Official Website: http://www.bcco.info