Mesa Community College Music & Dance Department Presents:

Summer Flute Project Lunch Time Concert Series

Friday June 19- 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm 

Featuring Jarrett May with Pianist, Wan - Ting Yu

Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise by Franz Doppler

 Bilitis by Claude Debussy

Caprice #1 (solo piccolo) by NiccolòPaganini

 Jarrett May joined The Phoenix Symphony as Piccolo/Utility Flute at the start of the 2025–26 season. He previously held positions as piccolo and second flute with the Palm Beach Symphony and Florida Grand Opera, and has performed as a guest musician with numerous orchestras across the country.  Jarrett is the recipient of numerous honors, including first prizes in the Seattle Flute Society Young Artist Competition and the Eastman Tal-Perkes Young Artist Competition, as well as second prize in the Philadelphia Flute Society Young Artist Competition. At age 16, he was named a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Scholar and appeared on NPR’s From the Top. He has been featured as an instrumental fellow at the Music Academy of the West and Spoleto Festival USA, and was a member of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the United States, touring Latin America under the baton of Marin Alsop. Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Jarrett was a young pupil of Terri Sundberg, Professor of Flute at the University of North Texas. He completed his high school studies at Interlochen Arts Academy, where he studied with Nancy Stagnitta and graduated with Young Artist Honors. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, studying flute with Bonita Boyd and piccolo with Anne Harrow, and went on to receive his Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Tara Helen O’Connor and Ransom Wilson. While at Yale, Jarrett completed a residency in Vienna at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute as part of a concert series celebrating the great chamber works of Arnold Schoenberg.        

  
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Mesa Community College Music & Dance Department Presents:

Summer Flute Project Lunch Time Concert Series

Thursday, June 18 - 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm 

Featuring Brian Luce and Christopher Caliendo - Flute and Guitar Duo

Program of music for flute and guitar composed by Christopher Caliendo

1.    Acarciame

2.    Allegria

3.    Fervente

4.    Forza

5.    Lamento

6.    Elegia

7.    Jal

8.    Amor Perdido

9.    Sincerita

Brian Luce, is “an authoritative soloist” praised for his “technical agility” and “lyric power,” and is a professor and Associate Director of the University of Arizona School of Music. His performances as a soloist and collaborations in the Luce-McLaughlin Duo, Arizona Wind Quintet, Luce-Caliendo Duo, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Bach Society, Dallas Wind Symphony, Ulsan Symphony Orchestra, and Tucson Chamber Orchestra have been broadcast and appear on numerous recording labels. He has served as principal flutist of orchestras in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Texas and during the Crested Butte Summer Music Festival. Brian performs and presents master classes worldwide as a Yamaha Performing Artist. He is a prizewinner in many competitions including the National Flute Association, Myrna Brown, and Mid-South young artist competitions. He is published by Editions BIM and IntegrityInk, and his articles on performance and pedagogy have appeared in Flute Talk Magazine and Flute Explorer Magazine. He gives lecture-recitals and workshops on his award-winning dissertation, Light from Behind the Iron Curtain…Edison Denisov’s Quatre Pièces pour flûte et piano and actively promotes music from his Native American heritage. He enjoys time outside performing and teaching as a USSSA, USA, and PGF fastpitch softball coach. www.brianluce.com       

Mesa Community College Music & Dance Department Presents:

Summer Flute Project Lunch Time Concert Series

Tuesday, June 16 - 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm 

Featuring Abby Coffey and Pianist Wan-Ting Yu

“A Recital of “Stolen” Music”   

Sonata for Oboe and Piano - F. Poulenc

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 - R. Schumann, arr. for alto saxophone by Jacques Larocque Nocture in D minor, Op. 19, No. 4 - P. Tchaikovsky, arr. for flute and piano by Mark Sparks  Trio for Piano, Oboe and French Horn, Op. 188 - C. Reinecke, arr. for piano, piccolo and flute/alto flute by Josh Coffey 

Sonata for Oboe and Piano - Francis Poulenc  

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 - Robert  Schumann, arr. for alto saxophone by Jacques Larocque  

Nocture in D minor, Op. 19, No. 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arr. for flute and piano by Mark Sparks 

Trio for Piano, Oboe and French Horn, Op. 188 - Carl Reinecke, arr. for piano, piccolo and flute/alto flute by Josh Coffey     

Abby Coffey is a versatile flutist, piccoloist, educator and arts administrator in St. Paul, Minnesota. Abby is the Director of Finance and Operations at Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts. An avid performer, Abby held the position of Flute 2/Piccolo in the Symphony of the Southwest for seven seasons, in addition to performing frequently as a substitute musician with The Phoenix Symphony. She has also appeared with the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, West Valley Symphony, Arizona Opera, Arizona MusicFest, Colorado Music Festival, and the Nashville Ballet. Abby won first prize in the 2019 National Flute Association’s Piccolo Orchestral Audition and Masterclass Competition.

Abby graduated Summa Cum Laude from Belmont University with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education where she studied under Dr. Carolyn Totaro, and holds a Master of Music in Flute Performance from Arizona State University, studying with Dr. Elizabeth Buck. Abby completed a certification in Arts Administration Management through the University Massachusetts-Amherst.

When she isn’t obsessing over tuning exercises, balancing a nonprofit budget, or offering grant writing coaching, Abby enjoys perfecting homemade pasta recipes, and spending time with her husband and their toddler, two dogs and cat.

Local high schools are invited to share the best work in visual arts from their students during the 2025-26 academic year. This exhibit includes artworks in all mediums, two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Exceptional works are recognized through scholarship awards applied towards a fine art, digital art or fashion design program at Mesa Community College. 

This year's participating schools include:

BASIS Ahwatukee, Chandler High, Corona Del Sol High, Dobson High, East Valley Academy, Higley High, Highland High, Hamilton High, Leading Edge Academy, Marcos de Niza High, Mesa High, McClintock High, Mountain Pointe High, New School for the Arts & Academics, Red Mountain High, and Tempe High.

Meet our Jurors!