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Connecticut's Musical Spice

Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra

The Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra providing classical music concerts and musical services for Connecticut communities.

The orchestra collaborates with local schools and school systems to strengthen school music programs through performance.

The musicians are an integral part of musical life in Connecticut, performing with many other Connecticut orchestras and chamber music groups.

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NSO 2024 Concert Schedule

Saturday, March 23, 2024, 7:30pm

COLLABORATIVE MASTERWORKS CONCERT

Bristol Eastern High School Concert Choir

Northeastern Middle School 8th Grade Choir

Michael Coderre, baritone

Eli Gold, marimba
1st prize, Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra’s 2023 Young Artists Competition

Music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Copland & Creston

Marshall Brown, Music Director and Conductor
 

Donations gratefully accepted at the door.

Bristol Eastern High School
632 King Street, Bristol, CT 06010

CONCERT SPONSORS

Barnes Group Foundation

Clinton S. Roberts Foundation

Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation

Main Street Community Foundation

ADDITIONAL SEASON SUPPORT

Connecticut Office of the Arts, part of the
Department of Economic and Community Development

Program subject to change

Saturday, May 11, 2024 - TBA

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - Children's Concert (not available to the public) Lewis Mills High School Burlington

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - Children's Concerts (not available to the public) Warner Theatre Torrington

June 1, 2024 Trinity Episcopal Church Torrington

Thursday, June 13, 2024 - Outdoor venue Burlington

FREE Concert Tickets

This year the Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra will be providing FREE admission to our concerts!
While tickets are free, if you would like to contribute to a specific concert, please use the link below.

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Making a Donation

Won’t you consider a tax-deductible contribution to the Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra to further our efforts to strengthen school music programs through performance? Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra concerts often involve students in performance with the orchestra and we support the creative efforts of Connecticut composers.

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What we do

Servicing Our Community

School Music

The orchestra collaborates with local schools and school systems to strengthen school music programs through performance. Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra concerts often involve students in performance with the orchestra.

Local Composers

Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra supports the creative efforts of Connecticut based composers. In recent years the orchestra has performed the world or Connecticut premiers of works by Stephen Gryc, Larry Alan Smith, Robert Carl, Thomas Duffy, Neely Bruce and Joseph Russo.

Educational Concert

Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra performs annual educational concerts at Lewis Mills High School serving approximately 1,400 third graders from local school systems. The orchestra’s purposes in performing these concerts are to stimulate an intellectual curiosity in music and to encourage participation in school music programs.

Music Director

Music Director and Conductor Marshall Brown is a faculty member of the Hartt School Community Division and is a trombonist with the Waterbury and Wallingford Symphony Orchestras. His principal conducting teachers include Harold Farberman and Charles Bruck. He has degrees from the Hartt School and the University of Michigan and is the founding conductor of the Montgomery (AL) Symphony Orchestra.

OUR MISSION

The Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra, through the power of music, energizes, inspires and educates our communities.

VISION STATEMENT

The Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra broadens the love of symphonic music by building the orchestra of the future.

ARTISTIC VISION

The Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra is an integral part of the communities it serves. It energizes these communities through collaborations with other musical, educational, and non-musical organizations.

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Upcoming Events

Please see Concerts tab for previously recorded concerts.

Wind Band Side by Side Concert

Thanks to a grant from the Thomaston Savings Foundation

Winter 2023 – Thursday, February 16, 2023, 7:30pm

Lewis Mills High School

NSO Concert in collaboration with Bristol Eastern High School

Spring 2023 – Saturday, April 1, 2023, 7:30pm

NSO Young Artist Competition Winner Concert

May 2023 – Saturday, May 13, 2023, 7:30pm

Lewis Mills High School

NSO Children's Concert

May 2023 – Closed Concert, Children & Staff Only

Lewis Mills High School

Learn

Through the power of music we energize, inspire and educate our communities

Bringing Music To Your Town

  • We are a lively professional music ensemble, performing regularly in the communities of Bristol, Farmington Valley and Torrington.

  • Our orchestra has collaborated with Waterbury Chorale, Joyful Noise, Bristol Choral Society, Trinity Church Chorus (Hartford), Farmington High School Choir, Central Connecticut State University Chorus, Bristol Eastern High School Madrigal Singers and Chorus, the Reunion Jazz Band, and area high school musicians in side by side presentations on its subscription concert programs.

  • The orchestra includes music by living Connecticut composers in performance.

Bringing Music To Your Children

  • Educational children’s concerts are designed to stimulate an intellectual curiosity in music and to encourage participation in school music programs.

  • Annually over 1400 elementary students attend our concerts and we partner with high school and other choruses for local performances.

  • The orchestra provides an annual Young Artists Competition for eligible high school musicians.

  • Compelled by the need to build the next generation of music lovers, Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra plans to expand the Children’s Music Program over the next few years.

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