NHSO News

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra  is thrilled to announce its 2025 Free Family Series, featuring two exciting, animal-themed programs designed to delight children ages 3-8 and their families. These free, interactive concerts will take place at kid-friendly venues across southern Connecticut, creating a magical introduction to live music, storytelling, and education for young audiences.

Featuring a massive choir comprising the Fairfield County Chorale, Heritage Chorale of New Haven, and New Haven Chorale, this performance brings together 200 voices to tell the powerful story of Moses leading the Israelites to freedom.

Through her compositions, honors, and performances, Clara Schumann was able to leave a profound mark upon both the worlds of music and history.

To begin the concert, Music Director Perry So has programmed Courtney Bryan and Tazewell Thompson’s 2023 composition “Gathering Song,” which will feature Grammy Award-Winning Metropolitan Opera star, baritone Eric Greene.

Perry So says, “In my first season as Music Director of the NHSO I wanted to highlight the many ways in which music and the sound of the symphony touches all of our communities in New Haven.“

The NHSO Brass Quintet is hitting the road this June with “New Orleans Summer Swing,” a free, family concert designed for kids featuring a Second Line march and an interactive reading of the children’s book “Trombone Shorty” by performer and artist Issac Bloodworth.