Noontunes Summer Concert: Mary Sholkovitz, flute and Brittany Lord, piano

Wednesday, July 13th, 2016; Mary Sholkovitz, flute and Brittany Lord, piano

Please join us on Wednesday, July 13th, at 12:15pm, for the second concert of our annual Noontunes Summer Concert Series. Flutist Mary Sholkovitz and pianist Brittany Lord will present a program featuring works by Fauré, Doppler, Debussy and others. The concert will take place in the stone church at the Church of the Messiah, 22 Church Street, Woods Hole. Free-will offering.

Mary Sholkovitz has been teaching flute lessons in her Falmouth home studio since her move to the Cape in 1982. While a student at University of Michigan (B.A. in Sociology and Master’s in Social Work) she studied flute and found performing opportunities. She launched her flute teaching career when she moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1972. Her mentor was David Nicholson, a founding member and principal flute of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. In Scotland, England and Boston she attended master classes with many famous flutists. She performed for James Galway on two occasions. She’s been a Certified Suzuki Flute Teacher since 1999. For 16 years she taught Early Childhood Music Classes. She has played flute for choral groups throughout the Cape, been a flutist or cellist with ensembles and finds great joy in performing for church services and weddings. She lives in Falmouth with her husband Edward, a Scientist Emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Brittany Lord (Haskell) is the Music Director at the Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole, where she has been since 2008. She also has a large studio of private piano and organ students in the Falmouth/Bourne area. She was the Accompanist and Assistant Director for the Mastersingers By the Sea from 2013-2015 and the Artistic Director for the Greater Falmouth Mostly-All-Male Men’s Chorus from 2009 to 2013.

She earned a Master’s degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, where she studied organ with Alan Morrison and was the Graduate Assistant to the Organ Department. She received her Bachelor’s degrees in both Organ Performance and Music Education from the University of Southern Maine, studying organ with Ray Cornils. Prior to her organ studies, she studied piano with Robert Noyes, of Durham, ME.