Mihae Lee, Artistic Director
News & Events
A CT Arts Endowment Grant is Awarded to EWS for 2022.
For Essex Winter Series, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organiztion, reliance on donors, sponsors and grants is critical as ticket sales alone do not support our efforts to bring the finest music to the shoreline area during the winter season. For this reason, we are so...
Essex Winter Series Receives Arts Outreach Grant from the Community Foundation of Middlesex County
Essex Winter Series will present a three-day artist residency with members of the Resurgam Quartet, thanks to funding in part by the Community Foundation of Middlesex County, through a grant made possible by the generosity of the River View Cemetery Fund and Elizabeth...
Outreach Possible Again … And All That Jazz!
Community Outreach has always been a foundational component of the Essex Winter Series mission. With the pandemic resulting in schools not open to outside visitors, our regular school performances were not possible. But just before the holiday break in December 2021,...
Essex Winter Series Receives CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities
Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has awarded Essex Winter Series an $11,900 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant (CTCFOSG). As the world opens up again to in-person events, this funding...
BeethovenFest a Stunning Success
We at Essex Winter Series were fortunate and extremely happy to finally present the long-awaited BeethovenFest concert on December 19, 2021. Quite the wait from the original March 2020 date, but so worth it. What a concert it was! A "Dream Team" of seven exceptional...
EWS Receives 2022 Supporting Arts Grant from CTOA
The Connecticut Office of the Arts Supporting Arts Grant is given to many recipients each year to provide unrestricted funding for arts organizations to pursue their missions. Susan Guernsey, EWS Board of Trustees President, expressed her gratitude for all in the...
Essex Winter Series Awards Two Francis Bealey Memorial Scholarships for 2021
The Board of Trustees of Essex Winter Series is pleased to announce that the organization has chosen to award two Francis Bealey Memorial Scholarships rather than a single one for 2021. This year’s recipients are Lauren Spencer Sacrey and Elio Perez-Wilson, both of...
Gift of Music Free Virtual Concerts Return
In celebration of 2021's International Make Music Day, Essex Winter Series has re-released its extremely popular Gift of Music virtual concert series. All four amazing concerts will be available to view at any time until July 25, 2021. Concert 1 features a beautiful...
Gift of Music Free Virtual Concerts Begin January 2021
The year 2020 gave all of us a challenge that still continues this year, but for us at Essex Winter Series, we learned how much people treasure the Arts. The support we have received from our sponsors – Clark Group, Essex Meadows, Jeffrey N. Mehler, CFP, Masonicare at...
Celebrating Mihae Lee’s 10th Anniversary as Artistic Director, Artists Perform Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”
The 2020 season opener celebrated Mihae Lee's ten-year anniversary as Artistic Director of Essex Winter Series. The concert was performed by violinist extraordinaire Ani Kavafian and eleven of the phenomenal former Fenton Brown Emerging Artists of the past 10 years!...