October 18, 2008
Toshiyuki Shimada, Conductor

Myron: Katahdin (Greatest Mountain)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, featuring guest soloist Margarita Shevchenko
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (From the New World) 

 November 15, 2008
Danail Rachev, Conductor

A. Part: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, featuring guest soloist Gary Chapman
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12

 December 6, 2008
Bravo Broadway

With Guest Conductor Donald Pippin* (See him on the Jerry Herman PBS Special)

Featuring Guest Soloists:
Jan Horvath, Broadway starring roles in "Phantom of the Opera," "Three Penny Opera," and "Sweet Charity"
Christiane Noll, Broadway starring roles in "Jekyll & Hyde," And "Urinetown"
Aaron Lazar, Broadway starring roles in "Phantom of the Opera," "Les Miserables," and "Light in the Piazza"

 January 24, 2009
Elizabeth Schulze, Conductor

Wagner: Die Meistersinger Overture
2008 ECSO Instrumental Competition Winner TBA
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 "The Titan"

March 14, 2009
 David Commanday, Conductor

Rossini: Overture to the Barber of Seville
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, K 551, in C Major (Jupiter)
Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14, featuring guest soloist Stefan Jackiw
Gershwin: An American in Paris

April 4, 2009
Leslie Dunner, Conductor

Ginastera: Danzas del ballet "Estancia"
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Orff: Carmina Burana,
featuring the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus and gust soloists 

May 2, 2009
Sarah Hatsuko Hicks, Conductor 

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Prokofiev: Piano Concert No. 3, featuring guest soloist Andrius Zlabys
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise and Waltz from Eugene Onegin
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)

*Not a finalist
Programs, artists, dates subject to change without notice.