Community Calendar

Don’t miss SPIRITUS Festival 2026: Bon Voyage, a two-week chamber music festival on Long Island featuring internationally acclaimed artists and four dynamic concert programs. From A Trio of Trios to Transfigured Night, this season takes audiences on a vibrant musical journey across centuries and styles.

In our third concert, French Connection, we explore the irresistibly sensuous world of late-Impressionistic France, featuring works by Claude Debussy, Jean Françaix, and Gabriel Fauré.

In addition to Main Stage concerts, the festival includes public masterclasses and outreach initiatives that connect audiences and young musicians through world-class performance and education.

Learn more and view full programs at www.spiritusfestival.org
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Early bird tickets available through April 21 with code EARLYBIRD2026.

📍 June 13, 7:30 PM – Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stony Brook
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The Katarina String Quartet will perform works by Haydn, Schubert and Schumann.

This is an event for all orchestral musicians - professional, amateur, student alike - to come together and play five pieces to bring more joy and peace into our world. The pieces are: Ode to Joy, Dona Nobis Pacem, the theme from Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity, the theme from Beethoven’s 6th Symphony and Jesu, Joy by Bach. Music packets are available to all who register, please email: RavennaM@gmail.com. Chairs provided, but you must bring your own stand! This will be a beautiful community event designed for musical connection; come to play, come to listen. Registration required for all players.

Please enjoy the East End Women's Choir spring concert featuring Vivaldi's Gloria including orchestral accompaniment and other songs.

Sunday, June 14 | 5:00 PM | Red Barn, Mitchell College, 629-A Montauk Avenue, New London
Seven Times Salt – From Plimoth to Yorktown: Music of Early America
Celebrate America’s early musical history with songs from the first settlers to the Revolutionary era, including works by Thomas Arne and William Billings, and a pleasing variety of 18th century dance tunes.

Don’t miss SPIRITUS Festival 2026: Bon Voyage, a two-week chamber music festival on Long Island featuring internationally acclaimed artists and four dynamic concert programs. From A Trio of Trios to Transfigured Night, this season takes audiences on a vibrant musical journey across centuries and styles.

In our final concert, Transfigured Night, the program journeys into a luminous and transcendent sound world, opening with Zoltán Kodály’s Serenade and concluding with Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, one of the most ethereal masterpieces of chamber music.

In addition to Main Stage concerts, the festival includes public masterclasses and outreach initiatives, connecting audiences and young musicians through live performance and education.

Learn more and view full programs at www.spiritusfestival.org

Early bird tickets available through April 21 with code EARLYBIRD2026.

📍 June 14, 7:30 PM – Setauket Presbyterian Church
🎟️ www.spiritusfestival.org

Saturday, June 20 | 5:00 PM | St. John’s Episcopal Church, 400 Main Street, Niantic
New England Baroque – Centuries in Concord
Hear Bach’s virtuosic Concerto for Two Harpsichords and Vivaldi’s Sinfonia alla rustica, alongside Caroline Shaw’s Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, composed in 2022. Harpsichordists John McKean and Ian Watson are joined by Susanna Ogata (violin), Renée Hemsing (viola), and Guy Fishman (cello).

Sunday, June 21 | 5:00 PM | Evans Hall, Connecticut College, New London
Lux Aeterna – W.A. Mozart Requiem (K. 626) and Ave Verum Corpus (K. 618)
The Festival concludes with Mozart’s iconic choral works, alongside Rachmaninoff’s Bogoroditse Devo, performed by the Connecticut Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus, led by Ian Watson.

Pianist and music arranger Alexander Wu and his trio invite you to explore and enjoy Voices of America 250th!, celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary, which recreates iconic musical works and historical performances by the greatest American artists heard over the last three centuries.
Music of Aaron Copland, "Blind Tom" Wiggins, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, Dave Brubeck, George Gershwin, Ástor Piazzolla, Dave Baker, Phillip Glass,
Harry T. Burleigh, Paquito D' Rivera, Dizzy Gillespie, Chen Yi, Chick Corea, Tania León, Dana Suesse, Mary Lou Williams, William Grant Still, Oscar Peterson, Florence B. Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Antonio Carlos Jobim, John Williams, Herbie Hancock and Carol King.

“You will be moved, profoundly and intensely.” — The New York Times

“The biggest emotional gut punch I got from a concert all year.” — The Washington Post

After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler received his inheritance as a literal wad of cash in a parking lot—an encounter that became the catalyst for an ambitious commissioning project. Inviting a wide-ranging group of composers and sound artists, Tendler asked each to respond to the idea of “inheritance,” resulting in a deeply personal yet universally resonant body of new piano works.

Woven into a single intimate program, these pieces explore lineage, memory, loss, and place, forming a meditation on how we confront the past while shaping the future. Featuring commissions by Devonté Hynes, Laurie Anderson, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, inti figgis-vizueta, and others, the program reflects a striking diversity of voices and perspectives.

Produced by Liquid Music, this project earned a 2026 GRAMMY® nomination for Best Classical Instrumental Solo and has been featured on “CBS Sunday Morning.”