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Visit our YouTube Channel to hear performances from all 10 years of Connecticut Summerfest!
The Tenth Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 12th-June 18th, 2025.
2025 Ensembles-in-Residence: Longleash, Hub New Music, Sugar Hill Salon
2025 Composition Faculty: Christopher Cerrone, Gilda Lyons, Angélica Negrón, Evan Williams 
2025 Festival Composers: Harry González, Irene Huang, Sean Klink, Emmet Lewis, Luca Pasquini,
Chawin Temsittichok, Jiaqi Wang, Wen Wen Van Der Wende, XY Mike Zhou
More information about our 2025 Festival is available in our 2025 Concert Program Booklet (PDF)
Hear performances from our 2025 Festival on our YouTube Channel
The Ninth Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 6th-June 12th, 2024.
2024 Ensembles-in-Residence: Black Moon Trio, Haven Trio, ~Nois 
2024 Composition Faculty: Ivette Herryman Rodriguez, Gilda Lyons, Jeff Scott, Christopher Theofanidis
2024 Festival Composers: Daniel Cui, Max Eidinoff, Spencer Gravel, Charlie Kreidler, Indigo Knecht, Nicole Knorr,
Edward Lu, Yeeun Sim, Jaylin Vinson
The Eighth Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 8th-June 14th, 2023.
2023 Ensembles-in-Residence: arx duo, Hub New Music, Sugar Hill Salon 
2023 Composition Faculty: Takuma Itoh, Jessica Meyer, Ken Steen, Joel Thompson
2023 Festival Composers: Andrew Austin, Grace Coberly, Paul Cosme, Gordon Green, Alan Mackwell,
Sofía Rocha, Nick Sokol, Edmund Song, Sebastian Suarez-Solis
The Seventh Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 9th-June 15th, 2022.
2022 Ensembles-in-Residence: Haven Trio, Del Sol Quartet, NorthStar Duo 
2022 Composition Faculty: Robert Carl, Gilda Lyons, Evan Williams, Du Yun
2022 Festival Composers: Kay Cypret, Evan Fontaine, Matthew Lam, Janay Maisano, Jeremy Makkonen,
Sylvia Niemann, Dale Osterman, Cole Reyes, Kento Stratford
The Sixth Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 10th-June 15th, 2021.
2021 Ensembles-in-Residence: Front Porch, Hub New Music, ZOFO 
2021 Composition Faculty: Carlos Simon, Ken Steen, Chen Yi, Nina C. Young
2021 Festival Composers: Brittney Benton, Cory Brodack, Daniel De Togni, Aaron Hendrix, Grace Ann Lee,
Natalie Nicholas, Annie Nikunen, Christian Quiñones, Davide Tammaro
The Fifth Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 11th-June 16th, 2020.
2020 Ensemble-in-Residence: International Contemporary Ensemble
2020 Composition Faculty: Phyllis Chen, Nathan Davis, Gilda Lyons, Matt Sargent
2020 Festival Composers: Zachary Detrick, Megan DiGeorgio, Andrew Faulkenberry, Katie Hedrick,
Thomas Little, Dale Osterman, Stephany Svorinić, Mike Zavorskas
The Fourth Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 13th-June 19th, 2019.
2019 Ensembles-in-Residence: Duo Alterity, Hub New Music, Quince Ensemble
2019 Composition Faculty: Miguel del Águila, Robert Carl, Laura Kaminsky, Aaron Jay Kernis
2019 Festival Composers: Leah Blankendaal, Andrew Filson, Michael Grebla, Tzu-Chin Hsu,
Dale Osterman, Nathan Scalise, Becky Turro, Ginny Wang, Chin-Shuo Wu
The Third Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 14th-June 20th, 2018.
2018 Ensembles-in-Residence: Duo Alterity, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Xelana Duo
2018 Composition Faculty: Kenneth Fuchs, Paula Matthusen, Dan Roman, Larry Alan Smith
2018 Festival Composers: Alexis Carrier, Yufei Chen, Mario Godoy, Patrick Holcomb,
Grace Ma, David Jones, Joungmin Lee, D.H. Regnier, Becky Turro
The Second Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 15th-June 21st, 2017.
2017 Ensembles-in-Residence: Apple Orange Pair, Meraki Chamber Players, Xelana Duo
2017 Composition Faculty: Gilda Lyons, Kenneth Steen
2017 Festival Composers: Zachary Gulaboff Davis, Patrick Holcomb, Matthew Jaskot, Ion Marmarinos,
Jonathan Newmark, D.H. Regnier, Josh Sparkman, Kezia Yap, Jeffrey Earl Young
The Inaugural Season of Connecticut Summerfest took place from June 9th-June 15th, 2016.
2016 Ensembles-in-Residence: Apple Orange Pair, Deciduous Trio, Resound Duo
2016 Composition Faculty: Robert Carl, David Macbride
2016 Festival Composers: Timothy Bates, Daniel Collins, Tobias Haus, Daniel Isgar,
Noah Marconi, Colin Minigan, Dale Sakamoto, Sean Rodan

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