NHSO News

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.

On Monday, June 27, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) elected two new members to its Board of Directors: Michael Jacobs and Cristi Stroud. They join the Board following this season’s new appointment of Board Directors Jennifer Morgan DelMonico, Dr. Byron Kennedy, and Fay Sheppard, as well as the renewal of Directors Richard Cella, Paul Hermes, Robert Santy, and Robert Eck.

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) Board of Directors has assembled an official committee to search for the NHSO’s next music director, who will begin their tenure with the orchestra’s 2019 – 2020 season.

What do storm troopers, violins, sharks, aliens, dinosaurs, and superheroes have in common? They will all be part of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s season finale, a three-city tour of The Music of John Williams.

Tchaikovsky called his Sixth Symphony “the best thing I ever composed or shall compose.” The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) will perform his Symphonic masterpiece at Tchaikovsky, Brahms & Lash on Thursday, May 19 at the 7:30pm at Woolsey Hall in downtown New Haven. Led by NHSO Music Director William Boughton, this concert’s program will also include Brahms’ Violin Concerto featuring NHSO New Generation Artist Benjamin Beilman, plus the world premiere of the next chapter of the Lash/Voynich Project: “Astronomical.”

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) teams up with the vocal forces of the Worcester Chorus for Leonard Bernstein’s choral masterpiece and “prayer for peace,” Chichester Psalms, on Thursday, April 28 at the 7:30pm at the Shubert Theater in downtown New Haven. Led by NHSO Music Director William Boughton, this concert’s program highlights will also include Vaughan Williams’ luscious Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus;” Lambert’s Rio Grande, Tower’s Second Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and the world premiere of new arrangements of the beloved American spirituals Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Go Down, Moses; and Steal Away featuring dynamic guest soprano Dana Fripp.