CLASSICAL
HSO Masterworks Series: Sirena Plays Sibelius at The Bushnell
Bushnell Theater 166 Capitol Ave, HartfordFEB. 14-16, 2025 An HSO favorite, Sirena Huang, returns to the Belding Stage to perform the famous Sibelius violin concerto. We’re thrilled to have her back for our Valentine’s weekend concerts. It makes sense to play something romantic, of course, so Don Juan comes to mind. There’s no need to take a trip to experience […]
Musical Masterworks: Early music ensemble Ruckus featuring works by Bach
Musical Masterworks 4 Lyme Street, Old LymeFebruary 15 & 16, 2025 SATURDAY AT 5PM | SUNDAY AT 3PM Performances at The Congregational Church in Old Lyme Musical Masterworks will turn to early music inspirations with the celebrated early music ensemble, Ruckus. The entire program is based on works by J.S. Bach, realized and reimagined by flutist Emi Ferguson and Ruckus. For […]
Yale Opera presents Iolanta
Schubert Theater New Haven 247 College Street, New HavenYale Opera presents a new production of Tchaikovsky’s romantic fairy tale Iolanta. Metropolitan Opera conductor J. David Jackson leads the Yale Philharmonia and an exciting young cast in this lush opera about the transformative power of love. For more information
Yale Symphony Orchestra: Awakening
Yale School of Music Woolsey Hall 500 College Street, New HavenThe Yale Symphony Orchestra joins forces with the Yale Glee Club and the Elms City Girls Choir for a monumental performance of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. The concert opens with Carlos Simon’s “Waltz,” a “gesture of reclamation” towards the appearance of debutante balls in Black social circles during the 1930s. Duke Ellington’s River Suite is a spiritual poem of water: when the […]
ECSO: A Call for Peace at The Garde
Garde Arts Center 325 State Street, New LondonNazaykinskaya | World Premiere Wieniawski | Violin Concerto No. 2 Kinga Augustyn, Violin Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 4 The ECSO’s February concert, a call for peace in Eastern Europe, will begin with a world premiere by Polina Nazaykinskaya, a graduate of Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory College and the Yale School of Music. Next, Polish violinist […]
Yale Schola Cantorum presents: Klagt, Kinder – Köthener Trauermusik
Yale School of Music Woolsey Hall 500 College Street, New HavenAll are welcome to attend a performance of Schola Cantorum with Juilliard415, conducted by Schola's principal guest conductor Masaaki Suzuki. Repertoire: JS Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 JS Bach: Köthener Trauermusik, BWV 244a Free and open to the public. Livestream link(Link is external) Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music […]
Connecticut Virtuosi: ORGAN MUSIC at CYRIL: Rheinberger & MORE in Hartford
Cyril and Methodius Church 63 Popieluszko Court, HartfordFeaturing Historic 1938 Austin Pipe Organ Concerto (Suite) for Violin, Cello and Organ, Op. 149 (Rheinberger, Josef Gabriel) Program sponsored in part by Marjorie Jolidon Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving SOLOIST: Giacomo Benedetti For more information
ESCHER QUARTET Lenard Chamber Music Series at UCONN
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts 2132 Hillside Rd, StorrsThe Escher String Quartet has received acclaim for its profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty. A former BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the quartet is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. The Quartet takes its name from the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by his method […]
MMModern: Garden Music at La Grua Center
La Grua Center 32 Water St, StoningtonGiven his dynamic popularity last season, Nate Farrington is returning to MMModern — this time with the members of Garden Music who have been playing together since they were kids, and each of them has a special skill set and musical perspective that they bring to the group. You will hear Latin music, Stradgrass, opera, original tunes, and […]
Yale Symphony Orchestra: Sublime
Yale School of Music Woolsey Hall 500 College Street, New HavenCarlos Simon’s “Holy Dance” opens the program with its evocation of “joyous dancing, spontaneous shouting, and soulful singing” found in the worship services of predominantly Black churches. Yale Symphony Orchestra’s Tobias Liu and Erin Nishi are the soloists in Mozart’s effervescent Sinfonia Concertante, a masterpiece that swells with operatic laments and bursts with irrepressible joy. On the second half, the […]
Hartford Symphony Orchestra Masterworks: Mozart’s Requiem
Bushnell Theater 166 Capitol Ave, HartfordMarch 14-15-16: 8PM HSO Masterworks Series - Mozart's Requiem Jack Pott, conductor Martinez, Symphony in C Major Haydn, Symphony No. 44 in E Minor "Trauersinfonie" INTERMISSION Mozart Requiem, K. 626 For more information
Catalyst String Quartet in Wilton
Wilton Congregational Church 70 Ridgefield Road (Route 33), WiltonPaquito D’Rivera: Three pieces Astor Piazzolla: Suite del Angel George Gershwin: Lullaby Coleridge Taylor Perkinson: String Quartet No. 1, “Calvary” Hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished… playing with earthy vigor,” the Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet was founded by the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Organization in […]