Note: Eduardo's audition concert took place on April 13, 2024 Eduardo Leandro is also a candidate under consideration as GBS' new Music Director. Not a stranger to the GBS stage, he was principal guest conductor leading the orchestra through our 78th season in programs that range from Mozart and Beethoven through Prokofiev, Debussy and Ginastera, […]
GBS begins its 79th Season continuing the search for a new Music Director with the second of four candidates*: Joshua Gersen. Mr. Gersen is definitely the most local of candidates, having grown up in Monroe, performing with GCTYO (formerly the Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras) and conducting for them at age 11. This is not his […]
Our search for a new Music Director continues, with our third of four candidates*: Leslie B. Dunner. Hailed as “dazzling, elegant, polished, and riveting” by critics for his electrifying concert performances, guest conductor Leslie B. Dunner comes to perform a program that is sure to stir concertgoers. Lauded for his world premiere performances of Anthony […]
At this festive concert, you will hear the last of the four candidates* being considered as GBS' new Music Director: Guest Conductor Rachel Waddell. Themed "Story-Telling Time," this concert is thrilling, enlightening and family-friendly all at once. Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf featuring special guest narrator Jamie Bernstein along with Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade to anchor the […]
Sponsored by the Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation This is it! Maestro Eduardo Leandro’s grand inaugural concert as GBS' new Music Director and Principal Conductor! We've promised an amazing night of music and the concert on May 10 will live up to the show’s name, Something Big! Pianist Andrew Armstrong, a perennial favorite of GBS who […]
