Celebrate with Us!

Con Brio celebrated its 25th Season in 2021-2022. The Governor of Connecticut marked the occasion with an Official Statement.

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Programming
Over our first quarter century, we created and established the “Con Brio style” of varied, exciting and challenging programming, but always in genres that our growing, loyal audience loves:

  • 8, 12, even 19-part renaissance pieces sung “in the round”
  • A Cappella pieces
  • Major works, scored for chorus, professional soloists and full professional orchestra
  • Performances with world-class local soloists such as our recent Beethoven Choral Fantasia with Mihae Lee, piano, and Beethoven Mass in C and Mascagni Easter Hymn, with Patricia Schuman, soprano
  • Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue, with acclaimed pianist Randall Hodgkinson
  • Old fashioned Christmas Concerts (two performances to meet popular demand)
  • Exciting new works by acclaimed American composers: Dan Forrest, Z. Randall Stroope, and New Englanders Gwyneth Walker of Vermont and Peter Bagley of UCONN
  • Long-lost, but recently discovered music, such as Vivaldi Dixit Dominus RV807
  • Powerfully moving pieces that speak to us of peace, including Jenkins L’Homme Armé (A Mass for Peace); and Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem, settings of Walt Whitman’s poems

European Concert Tours
Con Brio has made eight highly successful concert tours to Europe, with an ninth being planned in 2025.

  • 2005: Northern Italy
  • 2008: Germany, Czech Republic
  • 2010: Southern Italy and Sicily
  • 2012: Southern Spain
  • 2014: Catalonia and France
  • 2016: Portugal and Western Spain
  • 2018: Slovenia and Croatia
  • 2021: cancelled due to COVID
  • 2023: Italy (Umbria and Tuscany) and France (Provence)

Highlights and photographs of recent tours may be found in the History of Con Brio, by clicking on the link:  Story of Con Brio 2023

Membership and Musicality
Today, Con Brio is stronger than ever. The chorus has grown to over 70 auditioned choristers, attracting new, younger members, achieving a remarkable full, rich, sound with exciting dynamics and great musicality.

Singing for a Lifetime
Read this important report from Chorus America:

Singing for a Lifetime

 

 Finances and Giving Opportunities
Ticket sales, plus our member’s dues and donations, cover a full 2/3 of our annual budget! This very high percentage demonstrates the health and vibrancy of Con Brio, in the community and among our own members.

Con Brio has a history  of financial prudence and excellent stewardship. Over the years, it has carefully built up operating reserves and an endowment fund, providing stability and security. We are therefore fully confident in asking you to join with us, by making a tax-deductible contribution to Con Brio, a not for profit 501(c)3  organization registered in the State of Connecticut. Your gift will help Con Brio continue to offer splendid, exciting choral music, performed locally, by your friends and neighbors, for our friends and neighbors.

To donate instantly online, 24/7, click on the Square Icon below. Choose a fixed amount, or  type in amount you choose. No handling fees.  Use any major credit card. 

You will receive an email confirmation of your donation for your records. Thank you for your generosity! You will also receive a written receipt for your tax records from the Treasurer of Con Brio.

Con Brio also offers donors the options of making matching gifts, restricted endowment gifts, as well as planned legacy giving. Please contact Con Brio in strictest confidence for more details. Call (860) 304-1399 or email. 

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