Mihae Lee, Artistic Director
News & Events
Essex Winter Series Awarded Grant Funding from the Essex Community Fund
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...
Spring 2025 Community Outreach Workshops with Terra String Quartet
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...
Essex Winter Series Brings Jazz to New London Schools
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.
Valley Courier’s Rita Christopher Celebrates EWS’s Mihae Lee as Person of the Week
Essex Winter Series has grown and blossomed over the last 15 years under Artistic Director Mihae Lee, bringing outstanding entertainment and spring and fall community outreach to schools and senior communities in Middlesex and New London counties. We are thrilled to...
Essex Winter Series Awarded “Supporting Arts” Grant Funding from DECD/CT Office of the Arts
With the “giving” season in full swing, the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development announced the recipients of the 2025 Supporting Arts Grants given through the Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment...
Essex Winter Series Awarded Funding Through the Essex Savings Bank Community Investment Program
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). The CIP represents Essex Savings Bank’s commitment to community banking, providing donations to...
EWS Receives Grant Funding from Connecticut Office of the Arts
Essex Winter Series is pleased and grateful to be one of the 188 arts organizations awarded funding from the Connecticut Arts Endowment Fund grant this year! From the total amount of $889,370 awarded to all the organizations, the Connecticut Arts Endowment Grants...
WTNH Feature: EWS Gives Back Through Spring Community Outreach
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...
Essex Winter Series Presents a FREE 2024 Community Outreach Concert
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...
Congratulations, EWS Board President Susan Guernsey – Zip06 Person of the Week
That’s right! Time for Essex Winter Series. Thank you, Rita Christopher and Zip06, for the shout out. And congratulations to our board president, Susan Guernsey, Zip06’s Person of the week on January 11. 2024....