NHSO News

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) will close the 2014 – 2015 Season with movie soundtracks that featured classical music at Cinematic Dances Thursday, May 28 at 7:30pm at the Shubert Theater, Saturday, May 30 at 2:30pm at Hamden Middle School and Sunday, May 31 at 3:00pm at Shelton Intermediate School. Led by NHSO music director William Boughton, the program will include Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Bolero from Ten, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Disney’s Fantasia and Chaconne from The Red Violin, featuring guest violin soloist Bella Hristova.

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Boughton are proud to announce the concerts and programs for the 2015 – 2016 Concert Season.

“Beautifully recorded in live performances in Woolsey Hall, New Haven, this is another winner among Walton discs,” says Gramophone Magazine’s review of the NHSO’s latest Walton Project disc.

“Your magic reunites that which custom strictly parts; all men become brothers where your gentle wing alights.” The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO), joined by more than 170 singers from the combined Fairfield County Chorale, Hartford Chorale, and Guilford High School Voices, will perform Triumphant Voices: Beethoven’s Ninth on Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 7:30pm in Woolsey Hall.

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) is proud to announce that it has donated proceeds from its December 18 performance of Handel’s Messiah to the Community Soup Kitchen of New Haven. These funds, totaling over $8000, were raised through concert ticket sales, a co-presented Symphony Supper at the Community Soup Kitchen prior to the performance, and in conjunction with program support from the Bank of America.

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) will swing to the biggest hits of the big band era at Big Band Meets the Symphony on Saturday, March 7 at 2:30pm at Hamden Middle School and Sunday, March 8 at 3:00pm at Shelton Intermediate School. Led by NHSO principal pops conductor Chelsea Tipton, the program will include Henry Mancini’s Moon River and Strings on Fire, W.C. Handy’s St. Louis Blues, Leroy Anderson’s Clarinet Candy featuring the NHSO clarinet section and conductor Chelsea Tipton on clarinet, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue featuring guest pianist George Lopez.