Support Grant Approved

For Fanfare Consort

The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism has approved a $1,312 grant for Fanfare Consort Ltd, Inc, of Monroe, to provide operational support for the Baroque music group and its programs, state Representative DebraLee Hovey (R-112th District) has announced.

Fanfare Concerts is dedicated to the research, publication, performance and recording of Baroque music composed prior to the 19th Century, much of which is available only in handwritten manuscripts that the group researches, transcribes, records, and performs for audiences in Connecticut and elsewhere in the United States, Representative Hovey said.

Within the past year the group has performed locally in Marble Dale, Ridgefield, Southbury, Trumbull and Waterbury.

In April, Fanfare Consort founder and artistic director Thom Freas offered a free trumpet master class at Newtown High School, “From King Tut to Marsalis: The Evolution of The Trumpet.”