2025-26 Events

Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 7:30pm
Greater Bridgeport Symphony
"Horizons of the Air"
Caroline Shaw: Entr’Acte
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5, in D minor, Op. 47
Eduardo Leandro, conductor
Klein Auditorium, Bridgeport, CT

Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 3:00pm
First Church Chamber Music Series
Swan Hennessy: Trio, Op. 54
Chadwick Thomas, clarinet
Clara Ruiz Medina, clarinet
Morgan Pope, bassoon
Firch Church West Hartford, West Hartford, CT

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 3:00pm
Foot in the Door Ensemble
Toru Takemitsu: Concerto de Chambre
Chadwick Thomas, guest conductor
Millard Auditiorium, The Hartt School, West Hartford, CT

Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 1:30pm
Hartt Clarinet Day
More details
Registration link
Berkman Recital Hall, The Hartt School, West Hartford, CT

Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 7:30pm
Grand Night of Opera
Symphony in C with TCNJ Opera Theatre
Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall
The College of New Jersey, Ewing Township, NJ

Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 5:00pm
In the Land of Waltz and Czardas - Polish Operetta Stars
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Queensborough Performing Arts Center, Bayside, NY

Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 3:00pm
First Church Chamber Music Series
Ursula Mamlok: Sonatina for two clarinets
Chadwick Thomas, clarinet
Jonathan Maginnis, clarinet
Joel Love: Elements
Chadwick Thomas, clarinet
Hannah Hickman, saxophone
Firch Church West Hartford, West Hartford, CT

POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER:
Sunday, January 25, 2025 at 1:30pm
Music in the Galleries Series at The Wadsworth
Duo recital with pianist Yujin Lee
The program is inspired by The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, the innovative concert society organized by A. E. Everett "Chick" Austin and active in Hartford from 1928 through the early 1940s.
Elliott Carter: Pastoral
Virgil Thomson: At the Beach Waltz
Tartini arr. Jacob Gordon: Concertino
Ernst Krenek: Sonatine for bass clarinet
Aaron Copland: Clarinet Sonata
The Wadsworth, Hartford, CT

Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 7:30pm
Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra
"Rhapsody"
Barber: The School for Scandal Overture
Puts: Marimba Concerto
Ellington: Black, Brown, and Beige
Gershwin: American in Paris
Eric Mahl, conductor
David F. Clune Auditorium at Wilton High School, Wilton, CT

Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 7:30pm
Greater Bridgeport Symphony
"Horizons of the Earth"
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Eduardo Leoandro, conductor
Mertens Theater University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT

Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 3:00pm
Debut of Emerald Isle Chamber Music
Duo recital with pianist Yujin Lee
Emerald Isle Baptist Church, Emerald Isle, NC

May 29-31, 2026
Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival
Details at escmf.org
Fairhope, AL and Point Clear, AL