American
Chamber
Orchestra
Upcoming events
Sat, Feb 22Norwalk City HallFeb 22, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PMNorwalk City Hall, 125 East Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851, USA
Sat, Apr 26Norwalk City HallApr 26, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PMNorwalk City Hall, 125 East Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851, USA
Sat, Jun 14Norwalk City HallJun 14, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PMNorwalk City Hall, 125 East Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851, USA
2024-2025 SCHEDULE AT NORWALK CONCERT HALL
October 19, 2024 7:30pm
Premier Performance of Dr. Edward Thompson's "Impetus" for Crystal Singing Bowls
with Terry Eldh
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6
February 22, 2025 7:30pm
With The Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut
John Rutter's Requiem and Antonin Dvorak's Te Deum
15th Concerto Competition - Application Deadline January 31, 2025
Auditions - Feb. 28th, March 1st, March 2nd
Faust Harrison Piano Store
322 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield, CT
April 26, 2025 7:30pm
Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto
And More!
June 14, 2025 7:30pm
Our 2025 Concerto Competition Winners:
and more!
Buy your tickets and make a donation to keep the music coming!
Featured soloist
Terry Eldh is a classical musician, sound alchemist and energy healer.
Terry always knew that music was powerful. As a classically trained singer, Terry’s career started first in opera, and then moved to Broadway. But she always sensed there was more.
After studying energy for several years, Terry heard about sound meditation and signed up for a training course. During the final sound meditation of the course, a strong feeling guided her to join the master sound healer’s spiritual retreat to Egypt. There, her life was irrevocably changed...
Terri Eldh
Christopher Hisey
Conductor
Conductor Christopher James Hisey is the Music Director and Founder of the American Chamber Orchestra, Music Director and Founder of the Connecticut Philharmonic and Music Director of the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras.
He has also served as the Music Director of the Civic Orchestra of New Haven, Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra, the Troupers Light Opera Company, and Perrysburg Symphony Chorale as well as the Associate Conductor of both the Perrysburg Symphony and the Bowling Green Philharmonia and Opera Theater Orchestras.
Maestro Hisey has been a frequent guest conductor of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony and has made appearances with the Ruse Philharmonic and Pleven Philharmonic in Bulgaria, and the St. Petersburg “Klassika” Symphony, formerly the Leningrad State Philharmonic, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has conducted concerts throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico and China. In addition, Maestro Hisey has conducted concerts with such notable musicians as Sir James Galway, Tim Janis, Jackie Evancho, James Dunham, Chris Finckel and Deborah Wong.
A champion of new music Maestro Hisey frequently premieres new works. Emmy Award Winning composer Rex Cadwallader recently said of Maestro Hisey’s work, “He is an advocate for new music, and a caring and careful medium through whom my music has been brought gracefully and powerfully to life.”
A passionate and sought after music educator Maestro Hisey frequently appears as guest adjudicator and clinician at schools and festivals throughout the region.
His student orchestras have won top prizes in competition and have been invited to appear at Carnegie Hall, NAFME Eastern Music Festival and other festivals and concerts in the United States and abroad. He has served as Professor of Conducting, Orchestration and Music Director of the Orchestra at Manhattanville College and Professor of Conducting and Music Director of the Orchestra at Fairfield University. For the last 20 years he has served as Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music at Greens Farms Academy, in Westport, CT.
Maestro Hisey holds a Bachelor's degree in Viola Performance from the Eastman School of Music and Master’s Degree in Conducting from Bowling Green State Univeristy. He has been fortunate to study conducting with Emily Freeman Brown, David Effron, Gustav Meier, Donald Portnoy, and Donald Hunsberger.
Mr. Hisey lives in Monroe, CT, with his wife, Heather and their 4 children, Lauren, Alex, Grace and James.
our sponsors & Supporters
And You!
STAY IN THE LOOP