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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra’s 77th season, comprising six Saturday-evening concerts at the Garde Arts Center, 325 State Street in downtown New London, will begin on Oct. 21, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. Led by Music Director & Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada, the orchestra will play works by Amy Beach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Gershwin, and Tom Myron, shifting into Dixieland mode for a joint performance with the Tom Brown 6 ..read more

The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra’s 77th season, comprising six Saturday-evening concerts at the Garde Arts Center, 325 State Street in downtown New London, will begin on Oct. 21, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. Led by Music Director & Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada, the orchestra will play works by Amy Beach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Gershwin, and Tom Myron, shifting into Dixieland mode for a joint performance with the Tom Brown 6 ..read more

The Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra’s 77th season, comprising six Saturday-evening concerts at the Garde Arts Center, 325 State Street in downtown New London, will begin on Oct. 21, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. Led by Music Director & Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada, the orchestra will play works by Amy Beach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Gershwin, and Tom Myron, shifting into Dixieland mode for a joint performance with the Tom Brown 6 ..read more