The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra announces the opening of all subscription and single ticket sales for its 78th season that will celebrate Music Director and Conductor, Toshiyuki Shimada’s 15th season. Join us as the ECSO returns to the award-winning Garde Arts Center stage in New London on six Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.: October 26, November 23, January 25, February 22, March 29, and April 26.

The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus (ECSC) is currently seeking singers! Please consider joining us for an exciting 2024-2025 season. Auditions will be held on Wednesday, September 4th, 11th, and 18th 2024 at Harkness Chapel on the campus of Connecticut College.

The ECSO is pleased to announce the appointment of John Biatowas to the part-time position of Personnel Manager and Courtney Coates as Bookkeeper.

The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra announces that following its annual meeting the organization has appointed two new Board members. The new board members are Lisa Marien, Steve Bousquet, and they represent a broad range of geographic affiliation and talents.

The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra announces two part-time positions to be filled immediately with flexible schedules / hours: a bookkeeper and an orchestra personnel manager.

The guiding motif of the ECSO’s April 27 concert, the last of its 2023-24 season at the Garde, is a magical bird consumed and reborn in fire: the phoenix of Greek mythology.

The ECSO’s March 30 program explores this theme in works by Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, and the neoclassical Italian composer Salvatore Di Vittorio, whose 2015 Sea Fanfare, based on a theme by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, will open the concert.

On Sunday, March 24 (Palm Sunday) at 7:30pm, the ECSO and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus will perform a free concert at the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Norwich, CT conducted by ECSO Music Director and Conductor, Toshiyuki Shimada.

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