Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale

Bringing Music to our Community for 63 Years!

The Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale is a nonprofit volunteer organization that brings quality orchestral and choral music to the community, provides performance opportunities for its members, and provides education and performance opportunities for young musicians in partnership with Manchester schools and other Connecticut schools and colleges.

Join us for our upcoming concert:

Sunday, June 11, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Concert 5 – Chorale/Orchestra
Pops Concert – Jazz Favorites
Carolina Flores, Chorale Artistic Director
Jeff Spenner, Orchestra Artistic Director

Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School
134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester, CT
Nidaros Jazz Mass by Bob Chilcott
Embraceable You by Ira and George Gershwin, arr. Tenna Chinn.
Jazz Trio by Cole Porter. Medley arr. By Jay Althouse
And All That Jazz, arr. By Kirby Shaw
A Gershwin Portrait, arr. by MacHuff
I Will by Lennon/McCartney
Autumn Leaves by Joseph Kosma, arr. by Paris Rutherford
It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing by Duke Ellington
Take The “A” Train by Billy Strayhorn, arr. by Kirby Shaw
Ellington Medley
“Tico Tico” by Marty Gold
An American in Paris by George Gershwin

See our Hartt School of Music and Hartt Community Division alumni

See the photo gallery from the June 5, 2017 rehearsal with students from Manchester High School and other local schools

See the photo gallery from the December 15, 2016 Travelers Chorale concert

See the photo gallery from the November 4, 2016 concert