The Desert Echoes Flute Project is an exciting and adventurous flute choir programs sponsored by the Mesa Community College Music Department. The Members are from the Phoenix metropolitan area and include professionals, music educators, college students and community musicians who all enjoy playing the flute. The members perform in the Symphonic Flute Choir Chamber Flute Choir and smaller chamber groups including award winning sextet, trios and quartets. 

The newest ensemble is the Community Flute Choir, which brings together flutists of varying levels and ages without audition to enjoy playing music together. 

If you dare venture out on Friday the 13^th, the flute choirs of Desert Echoes Flute Project will be playing a variety of music from traditional repertoire to slightly spooky selections. The Community Flute Choir will perform “Hedwig’s Theme” from Harry Potter, Sonny Burnette’s Scenes of England and will feature DEFproject member Jim Turner as the bassoon soloist for Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette. Phyllis Louke’s delightful Of Wizards and Witches was inspired by the Harry Potter films and will be performed by the DEF Sextet. DEFproject will play Flight by James-Michael Sellers, the Rachmaninoff Adagio from Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, op27, Sorrentino’s Doppia Dimensione, and Fireworks by Daniel Dorff. You may think ghosts are in the house with Avinee’s Le château hanté and Jonathan Cohen’s Danse des Mystères. The ensembles will combine to play Guidobaldi’s whirling Tarantella.