The PSO’s orchestral series pairs brilliant soloists with beloved repertoire alongside fresh contemporary works.
Transformative music is available throughout the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO)’s 2025-26 Season. Music lovers will want to purchase tickets early to ensure the best choice of seats for the PSO’s Classical Series and festive Holiday POPS! concerts at Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.
Classical Series performances take place on select Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. (a new start time) and Sundays as usual at 4 pm. This year’s Holiday POPS! concerts take place Saturday, December 13. Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov conducts all but the Holiday POPS! and February concerts.
Audience favorite Aubree Oliverson returns to the PSO stage along with violinist Bella Hristova, who last performed with the orchestra in 2014. Exciting pianists Maxim Lando and 2025 GRAMMY® winner Michelle Cann, noted harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, and Serbian-French cellist Maja Bogdanović will each be appearing with the PSO for the first time at Richardson Auditorium.
The season promises exciting performances of concertos composed by Antonín Dvořák, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Edvard Grieg, and Camille Saint-Saëns as well as the world premiere of a new work for harpsichord and small orchestra by Princeton-based composer Julian Grant. Additional contemporary compositions include Dobrinka Tabakova’s “Orpheus’ Comet,” Andreia Pinto Correia’s “Ciprés,” Jessie Montgomery’s “Records from a Vanishing City,” and Viet Cuong’s “Extra(ordinarily) Fancy.”
Among the masterworks to be presented are Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 as orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg, Felix Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Symphony, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Second Symphony, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony. Princeton Festival veterans Aubry Ballarò, soprano, Nicholas Nestorak, tenor, and Joseph Barron, bass, will perform the full version of Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella.”
Single tickets start at $40; there are also cost-saving full subscriptions (save up to 25 percent) and Pick 3+ ticket packages available. Youths ages 5 to 17 receive a 50 percent discount with an adult purchase. For tickets and information, call 609-497-0020 or visit the Princeton Symphony Orchestra website at princetonsymphony.org.
