Fairfield County Symphony Society

12/03/2024

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12/03/2024

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The Fairfield County Symphony Society (FCSS) is a warm and we… Fairfield County Symphony Society needs your support for A Symphony of Support: Help Us Reach Our Goal

11/22/2024

NEWS FLASH! We have added a 2:00pm matinee performance of Oklahoma! on February 9, 2025. Tickets for this concert and the Saturday, February 8th at 7:30pm can be found at www.norwalksymphony.org

11/07/2024

FCSS concert on Sunday at 3 PM (free with a freewill offering):

10/11/2024

United Methodist Church of Westport and Weston
49 Weston Rd
Westport, CT 06880
Sunday, Nov 10, 2024, 3:00 PM
Fairfield County Symphony Society
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Overture for strings

John Rutter (1945 -): Suite for Strings
A-rowing
I have a bonnet trimmed with blue
O waly waly
Dashing away

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 -1750):
Concerto for two violins
Vivace
Largo ma non tanto
Allegro
Kathy Jones and Christine Hall, violin solo

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Two Hungarian Dances No. 5 and 6

Gwyneth Walker: “Here to Stay” for string orchestra (2024)
(world premier)

Conductor: Gunnar Sahlin

In June 1976, Florence Saunders, Ardis Carlton and Virginia Pukilla founded the Fairfield County Symphony Society with John Swartz as musical director. From the beginning, the FCSS has offered a place where musicians can meet to play great music. We have more than 30 active members and play....

09/23/2024

United Methodist Church of Westport and Weston
49 Weston Rd
Westport, CT 06880

Sunday, Nov 10, 2024, 3:00 PM

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Overture for strings, Largo-Allegro

John Rutter (1945 -): Suit for Strings

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 -1750): Violin Concerto for two soloists: Kathy Jones and Christine Hall

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Two Hungarian Dances

Gwyneth Walker: “Here to Stay” for string orchestra (2024) (world premier)

Conductor: Gunnar Sahlin

About FCSSIn June 1976, Florence Saunders, Ardis Carlton and Virginia Pukilla founded the Fairfield County Symphony Society with John Swartz as musical director. From the beginning, the FCSS has offered a place where musicians can meet to play great music. We have more than 30 active members...

09/18/2023

SEASON OPENER
September 23, 2023

"Join us for the electrifying opening to our season," enthuses Maestro Jonathan Yates. “This extraordinary launch unravels the tales of three iconic compositions, written within seven years of each other, and brings us to the varied and vibrant American musical scene of the mid-20th century.”

Indulge in the lyric rhapsody of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, as it weaves melodically through James Agee's prose-poem, conjuring a Southern childhood of yesteryear. Grammy-nominated soprano Laura Strickling is the soloist in this piece.

Immerse in Duke Ellington’s jazz-infused Harlem, a musical uptown stroll through vibrant neighborhoods: West Indian, Hispanic, and African American. In the composer’s own words: “You may hear a parade go by, or a funeral, or you may recognize the passage of those who are making Civil Rights demands.”

Lastly, born in Hungary but having fled fascism for the States, Bela Bartók's honors both his old and his new homelands in his magnificent and thrilling Concerto for Orchestra. This piece caps the evening, a great ending to a great concert, and the commencement of a great season.

04/11/2023

We still need a second bassoon for the following:

The Fairfield County Symphony Society is invited to play a concert at Edgehill Assisted Living Center on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 7:30 PM. On the program: Beethoven’s First Symphony and Mozart’s Piano Concerto in c-minor no 24. Soloist: Benjamin Steinhardt.
The rehearsals will take place at Temple Shalom, 259 Richards Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06850 every Tuesday night in April, starting at 7:30 PM (ending at 9:30 PM) with 10 minutes break.

04/04/2023

Please join us tomorrow and the rest of Tuesdays in April to play some of the greatest works ever written (as we always do 😁 ). Wind players will be there and our piano soloist Benjamin Steinhardt. Concert Tuesday May 2nd in Stamford. For more about Fairfield County Symphony Society please see

About the FCSSIn June 1976, Florence Saunders, Ardis Carlton and Virginia Pukilla founded the Fairfield County Symphony Society with John Swartz as musical director. From the beginning, the FCSS has offered a place where musicians can meet to play great music. We have more than 30 active mem...

02/07/2023

Kristin Huffman is a Performer, Producer, and Professor. Learn more about her work as a vocal coach, actor, producer, and more.

01/26/2023

This February, I’ll be heading up to Connecticut to take part in New Paradigm Theatre and the Norwalk Symphony’s production of Carousel: A Concert 🎠

One night only… FEBRUARY 11TH

🎫 🔗 : https://www.norwalksymphony.org/20222023/2023/2/11/carousel-rogers-amp-hammerstein

12/13/2022

Double Bass player needed for concert January 22nd, at 3 PM, with rehearsals two or three Tuesday nights before.

12/09/2022