DBR will be the featured guest artist for the orchestra’s 87th Annual Young People’s Concerts in late March, and his Hip-Hop Essay Part 1 will be included on the program, To Thee We Sing, on April 4 at Southern Connecticut State University. READ MORE

The event will celebrate the NHSO’s contributions to the community: artistic excellence, education, innovation, and a storied history – the NHSO is the fourth oldest orchestra in the United States. There will be live music by NHSO musicians and local music students, a cocktail reception, gourmet buffet dinner, interactive music activity stations – including a virtual reality experience and instrument petting zoo– and a live and silent auction. READ MORE

The New Haven Free Public Library is partnering with New Haven Symphony Orchestra to offer library cardholders the opportunity to attend concerts for free. READ MORE

This new box office enterprise, which will be called “Elm City Tickets,” will be managed by Long Wharf Theatre and will be located at the Theatre on 222 Sargent Drive in New Haven. READ MORE

“I’m thrilled and honored to have been selected as the next Music Director of the NHSO,” says Neale.  “I’m eagerly awaiting the opportunity to make music with the phenomenal musicians of the orchestra, to serve the New Haven community, and to once again make my home in the city that so graciously welcomed me for the first time 35 years ago.” READ MORE

Suite on the Green, a new work that will have its world premiere on June 17 at the New Haven Green as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, will be performed by 27 musicians, combining ElSaffar's members of Rivers of Sound Orchestra and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. The work features microtonal maqam modes of the Middle East woven through a complex matrix of harmonies, sonorities, and orchestrations. READ MORE