The springtime flowers on campus have awakened, reaching for the sun and dancing in the wind, or maybe to the music coming from Loomis Chaffee. There is plenty of it. 

On March 28, music teachers Netta Hadari (violin) and Tamila Azadaliyeva (piano) performed. Netta is the Loomis Chaffee Orchestra director. Tamila teaches piano at various places, including Loomis. There also was a special guest, Tina Lee Hadari, Netta’s wife, on violin. She teaches at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. 

On Monday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Hubbard Performance Hall, the Azul Quartet will be performing. The program features contemporary, pop, and classical pieces in what is billed as “the familiar and the new across a variety of genres.”  The concert is sponsored in part by the Joseph Stookins Lecture/Guest Musicians Fund.  

Janet Jacobson (violin), Sarah Washburn (violin), Eugenio Figueroa (viola), and Pablo Issa (cello) make up the quartet. Pablo is the Loomis cello instructor. He performs chamber music internationally and serves as the principal cellist of the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra. 

On Tuesday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Hubbard, Ken Fischer and Friends will be performing. Ken is the longtime jazz director at Loomis. He will be joined by Drew Voghel ’15 on tenor sax, Tido Holtcamp on drums, and Lou Bocciarelli on bass.  

“I’m thrilled to feature our exceptionally talented music lesson faculty and their brilliant colleagues in our Guest Musicians Series this spring,” said Susan Chrzanowski, the choral/vocal director and Performing Arts Department head. “Our music faculty and lessons instructors are active and in-demand musicians who perform with several well-known ensembles throughout the region. Many are soloists as well. Coming away from COVID, I’m delighted we are able to bring professional musicians to campus to interact with our students and our community, and to share these concerts with the folks from the area surrounding Windsor.”   

The April 3 and April 11 concerts are free and open to the public.