NHSO to host free Young People’s Concert

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) will perform a free Young People”™s Concert on April 1 at 1:00 p.m. at the Lyman Center for the Performing Arts at Southern Connecticut State University.

Music Director Alasdair Neale and NHSO Harmony Conducting Fellow Stephan Fillare will lead the one-hour “Introduction to the Orchestra” concert featuring the works of historic and contemporary composers including John Williams, Florence Price, Arturo Marquez, Alberto Ginastera, and Igor Stravinsky. After the concert, kids can meet and greet NHSO musicians in the lobby and try real orchestra instruments at an instrument “petting zoo.”

“The New Haven Symphony Orchestra has performed its Young People”™s Concerts annually since 1933, and the programs are constantly evolving to meet the needs of today”™s students,” said NHSO Education Director Caitlin Daly-Gonzales. “This year, thousands of kids from 22 New Haven public schools, as well as public and parochial schools from Seymour, Branford, Monroe, Meriden, Stamford, and West Haven will hear the orchestra play.”

Tickets to the April 1 concert are free but registration is required via the symphony”™s website at NewHavenSymphony.org or by calling the box office at (203) 693-1486.