Ensemble Program

NYFC Ensemble participants at the May 18, 2025 concert    Photo: Carmen Brown        

NY Flute Club Ensemble 2025-26 season

We meet once a month, usually on the third weekend, either Saturday or Sunday from 2:00-4:00 pm, September through April, and play a concert at the May Annual Meeting. Rehearsals are at Studios 353 at 353 W 48th Street. Dates are posted below. 

To join the ensemble:

• You must be a current member of the NY Flute Club.
• No audition is required. We accept all levels of players.NOTE: If you wish to participate in the ensemble program you must email Mark at: ensembles@nyfluteclub.org. Please include your name, preferred email address, and instrument (C flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute, contrabass). For new members, include a short note describing your playing level (high school, college, amateur, professional).

We will email parts in PDF files. If you need a hard copy, please let us know.

SMALL ENSEMBLES PROGRAM:  Interested in playing in a group of two to four or five players in a player’s home? The NYFC has revived its matchmaking service for NYFC members interested in playing in a small ensemble. See the December 2021 NYFC Newsletter for details and fill out the 2025-2026 interest form HERE. Questions? Contact Lish Lindsey (interim coordinator) at president@nyfluteclub.org.

Photos and reports of the NYFC Ensemble's activities in past seasons, starting with 2016-17, may be found here.

Meeting Schedule for the 2025-26 Season

Our Saturday, September 20, 2025 Meet-up

Participants at the September 20 ensembles meet-up. Photo: Brian Klasewitz 

On Saturday, September 20, the ensemble held its first rehearsal with 25 members (24 returning and one new).  Director Mark Vickers led the group through Fantasy on Amazing Grace (arr. Louke), Little Red Monkey (arr. Farmer), Allegro con fuoco from New World Symphony (arr. Long), Birdland (arr. Lombardo), Japanese Silhouettes (arr. Buonanni), Flutes and Vegetables (Cohen), and our own Bill Giannone’s arrangement of Sheep May Safely Graze.

The icebreaker question was “What were your destinations for summer vacations?”  Answers included heading to various places around the country as well as throughout Europe.  Some still have yet to take a vacation but have plans for the near future.