Name: Paris to Pathos
Start: 2026-11-21T19:30:00
Location: The Garde Arts Center, Inc.

Sarah Callinan

Simon Holt

Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra

Join us for our November Concert Radiant Dawn featuring the Eastern CT Symphony Chorus, Orchestra and guest ensemble Ledyard High School Chamber Choir (under the direction of Melanie Cometa) 🎶 — an evening of choral music that celebrates the voices of Eastern Connecticut and benefits the Haitian Health Foundation. 50% of all ticket sales go directly to HHF and helping their mission.

Radiant Dawn

St. Mary Star of the Sea Church

Paris to Pathos

The Garde Arts Center, Inc.

A festive program of beloved holiday favorites
Featuring Laura Darrell from Frozen and Local beloved Tenor Christopher Faison

The ECSO’s beloved Holiday Spectacular returns, and this year’s celebration promises to be more magical than ever. Gather the whole family for an afternoon of holiday cheer, gorgeous music, and the warmth of the season at the Garde Arts Center.

Holiday Spectacular

January brings the ECSO’s most intimate and beloved concert of the year: a full performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, one of the most recognizable and endlessly rewarding works ever written.

ECSO Concertmaster Stephan Tieszen steps forward as soloist for an evening built entirely around his virtuosity and musical intelligence. Vivaldi’s four concertos, each a vivid portrait of a season in rural Italy, are by turns stormy and serene, playful and profound. In Tieszen’s hands, they feel as fresh and urgent as the day they were written.

Infinite Seasons

The ECSO sets out on a musical journey this February, charting a course from ancient China to the crossroads of East and West. Voyage Along the Silk Road is a concert unlike any other in the ECSO’s history, a program that celebrates the rich traditions of the broader world and the composers who have woven them into the orchestral canon.

16-year-old star violinist Emma Carvalho performs The Butterfly Lovers, the beloved Chinese concerto by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang. Inspired by the ancient legend of two star-crossed lovers, this sweeping, lyrical work draws on the melodic language of Yue opera to create music of extraordinary beauty and emotional depth. Its soaring violin lines are among the most achingly romantic in all of classical music.

Voyage Along the Silk Road

The ECSO closes its 2026–27 season with a night devoted to the composer who changed everything. Beethoven! is a celebration of one of the most towering figures in Western music, and a showcase for one of the most gifted pianists on the concert stage today.

Pianist Eva Virsik joins Music Director Toshiyuki Shimada and the full ECSO for a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major. It is a revolutionary work that rewards every listener, from the first-time concertgoer to the lifelong devotee. Virsik brings both technical mastery and profound musical sensitivity to this beloved score. Her playing is luminous, precise, and deeply expressive, exactly what Beethoven demands and exactly what this concerto rewards.