Explore the ECSO’s 2024-25 Season
This season marks a celebratory milestone – Toshi’s 15th as our Music Director & Conductor! Explore the fantastic programs that will highlight amazing soloists, our phenomenal orchestra, and diverse programming.
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Saturday, March 22, 1:00pm
Evans Hall, Connecticut College
Annual Instrumental Competition
Attend our Annual Instrumental Competition!
The Annual ECSO Instrumental Competition provides a wonderful opportunity for instrumentalists to win cash prizes as well as appear with the orchestra in a subscription concert. This event is free and open to the public.
Saturday, March 29, 7:30pm
Garde Arts Center, New London
Fanfare for Life & Spring
Taking place on National Vietnam War Veterans Day, the ECSO’s March concert is named for the opening piece, Fanfare for Life. The program also features These Worlds in Us by Missy Mazzoli and Samuel Barber’s 1936 Adagio for Strings.
The ECSO will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major with soloist Adam Adov, who won the ECSO’s 2024 Instrumental Competition. Concluding the concert will be Robert Schumann’s sprightly Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Minor, known as the “Spring Symphony.”
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Friday, April 11 6:00pm
Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa
ECSO’s Annual Gala: The Crystal Ball
Enjoy delicious food, a live performance, and help honor our Music Director & Conductor, Toshiyuki Shimada as we mark 15 incredible years of his leadership at the Gala.
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Sunday, April 13 7:30pm
St. Patricks Cathedral
Palm Sunday
On Sunday, April 13 (Palm Sunday) at 7:30pm, the ECSO will perform a free concert at the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Norwich, CT conducted by ECSO Music Director and Conductor, Toshiyuki Shimada.
The evening will begin with a work by our very own Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus’s Director, Daniel McDavitt, titled The Prayer of St. Francis.
Following this work will be Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer, a gorgeous work that will be performed by the ECSO and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus, under the direction of Toshiyuki Shimada.
Closing out the evening will be Fauré’s Requiem Op.48, a truly special piece that will sound stunning in this Cathedral.
Thank you to the Edward and Mary Lord Foundation for their generous support of this event.
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Saturday, April 26, 7:30pm
Garde Arts Center, New London
Love and Hope, Italian Style
The ECSO will tie a red-white-and-green bow around its 2024-25 season with a program of achingly romantic works from famous Italian operas by Giacomo Puccini Giuseppe Verdi—performed by soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper and Mexican-born tenor Jesús Daniel Hernández. The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus will join the season-finale performance.
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Under 40 Deal
The ECSO is pleased to offer $12 tickets to patrons under 40 years of age! During checkout, look for the drop down menu on the Garde Arts Center’s website.
Military Discount
The ECSO is pleased to offer $12 tickets to active military and veteran patrons as a thank you for their service!
