August Concerts

The Altius String Quartet returns to New London on Thursday, August 9 at 7:30 PM at the First Baptist Church on Main Street.  Last year, this young and vibrant quartet brought the cheering audience to its feet at intermission.

Andrew Giordano, Violin; Joshua Ulrich, Violin; Andrew Krimm, Viola; and Zachary Reaves, Cello form the Altius Quartet which is an ensemble determined to further the art of chamber music through performance, education, and outreach.  Hailed as “rich” and “captivating,” the Altius Quartet is garnering an international reputation and enrapturing the hearts of audiences through their charisma, dynamism, and superb musicality.
The evening’s program will include Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 3 in D major; Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8; and String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, “Death and the Maiden” by Franz Schubert.
On Friday, August 24, at 7:30 PM, The Uptown Jazz Tentet, A Juilliard Alumni Jazz Orchestra, will bring their swinging arrangements of jazz standards and original compositions to the Sawyer Center at Colby-Sawyer College.  
The Uptown Jazz Tentet is one of the most dynamic large jazz ensembles to emerge in 2016.  Founded and led collaboratively by trumpeter Brandon Lee and trombonists Willie Applewhite and James Burton III, the band is comprised of ten of the most venerable and ubiquitous young sidemen in all of jazz.  The compositional styles of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Quincy Jones, Gil Evans, Wayne Shorter, and Wynton Marsalis inform the ethos of this powerhouse group, shaping the band’s unique and unmistakable sound.