NHSO News

The NHSO will host its Winter Wonderland Gala on Friday, February 10, 2017 at 7:00pm on the top floor of the Knights of Columbus Headquarters in downtown New Haven. The funds raised at the party will benefit the artistic and educational programs of the Symphony across the region.

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra will raise a glass and cheers to the beloved music and impressive beard of Johannes Brahms at Brahms & Mozart Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 7:30pm in Woolsey Hall. Audiences will experience the majesty of Brahms’ Symphony No. 4, whose elegant musical lines epitomize the splendor and passion of the Romantic era. The NHSO also will celebrate a New Haven community treasure – the Yale School of Music – with music by Yale composition professor Martin Bresnick and a special guest performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 by Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker.

New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) principal pops conductor Chelsea Tipton will open this season’s Pops Series with show stoppers from the “Great White Way” at Music of the Night on Saturday, November 5 at 2:30pm at Hamden Middle School and Sunday, November 6 at 3:00pm at Shelton High School. This family-friendly program will include music from Jersey Boys, West Side Story, Oklahoma, Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll & Hyde, Into the Woods, Frozen, Guys and Dolls, Drowsy Chaperone, and Les Miserables.

While visiting the U.S. in the late 19th Century, Antonin Dvorak was struck by Native American and African American folk songs; this music inspired his “New World” Symphony, now one of the most internationally beloved orchestral works. The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) will perform this classic and more at Dvorak’s New World October 20, 2016 at 7:30pm in Woolsey Hall. Led by NHSO music director William Boughton, program highlights also will include Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 featuring NHSO concertmaster Ani Kavafian as soloist.

The City of New Haven is proclaiming September 29, 2016 “Women Making Music Day” in honor of the NHSO’s Composer-in-Residence Hannah Lash, whose music will be performed at the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s (NHSO) Opening Night concert tonight at 7:30pm in Woolsey Hall, and female composer and trailblazer Helen Hagan.

The NHSO will kick off its 2016 – 2017 concert season on Opening Night! September 29, 2016 at 7:30pm in Woolsey Hall. Led by NHSO music director William Boughton, the season will begin with Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 – known as the “Italian” Symphony – and the third installment of the NHSO’s newest commission, the Lash/Voynich Project, written by Yale faculty member and composer Hannah Lash. Concert highlights will also include Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev returning to the stage of Woolsey Hall to perform both of Shostakovich’s Piano Concertos.