On March 22, 2026 the award-winning Trio Animoso will grace the stage at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek in Chester, CT for our next concert of the Essex Winter Series (EWS) season. This phenomenal group of young artists – Sophia Jean, flute; Julian Seney, viola;...
Jazz Outreach at local schools in December 2025
Essex Winter Series will present a four-day artist residency with members of Trio Animoso, thanks to funding in part by the Community Foundation of Middlesex County, through a grant made possible by the generosity of the GSB Grant Making Fund, River View Cemetery Fund, and Ivoryton Congregational Church Community Enrichment Fund.
Essex Winter Series is grateful to once again be one of the area’s local nonprofit recipients of funding from the Essex Savings Bank Community Investment Program (CIP). As President & CEO Diane Arnold noted her congratulatory comments, for 30 years Essex Savings...
Essex Winter Series is grateful to once again be one of many recipients of funding from the Essex Community Fund. For the upcoming year, the $250 grant received will support our scholarship program, the Francis Bealey Memorial Scholarship, which was established in...
Each year, as a part of fulfilling our mission to enhance our Shoreline and Connecticut River Valley communities, Essex Winter Series brings artists to perform and educate as a part of our Community Outreach Program, a program initiated by Artistic Director Mihae Lee...
New London Community Outreach in December 2024, featuring Jeff Barnhart and 6 jazz musicians who entertained and educated third, fourth and fifth graders about their instruments and the history of jazz.
Click here to watch the WTNH feature video. Thank you Sarah Cody and WTNH for highlighting a very importent component of the Essex Winter Series mission to bring world-class music to the widest and most culturally, economically, and socially diverse audience in our...
Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek was packed on March 10, 2024, for a vibrant and varied program by rising star, clarinetist Bixby Kennedy, with accompaniment by pianist Mika Sasaki. If you regrettably missed this delightful third Essex Winter Series concert in our...
