Violinist Aubree Oliverson, photo by PSO Staff
(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Single tickets for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO)'s 2025-26 Season will go on sale Monday, July 21. Buying tickets early ensures the best choice of seats for the PSO's Classical Series and Holiday POPS! concerts at Richardson Auditorium on the Campus of Princeton University.
All Classical Series performances take place on select Saturdays at 7:30pm (a new start time) and Sundays as usual at 4pm. 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’sOrpheus’ Comet, Andreia Pinto Correia’s Ciprés, Jessie Montgomery’s Records from a Vanishing City, and Viet Cuong’sExtra(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.
Review the PSO’s performance calendar online at princetonsymphony.org/calendar with links to individual event pages.
Single tickets start at $40; there are also cost-saving full subscriptions (save up to 25%) and Pick 3+ ticket packages available. Concerts take place on Saturdays at 7:30pm (new start time) and Sundays at 4pm. Full Season subscriptions start at $192. Youths 5-17 receive a 50% discount with an adult purchase. To subscribe, visit the Princeton Symphony Orchestra website at princetonsymphony.org or call 609-497-0020.
Accessibility: The Princeton Symphony Orchestra is committed to ensuring all programming is accessible for everyone, working with venues such as Richardson Auditorium to provide needed services. Contact Mika Godbole for questions about available services at [email protected] or (609) 905-0931. Note: some services require at least two weeks’ notice to arrange.
Programs, artists, dates, and times are subject to change.
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is a cultural centerpiece of the Princeton community and one of New Jersey’s finest music organizations, a position established through performances of beloved masterworks, innovative music by living composers, and an extensive network of educational programs offered to area students free of charge. Led by Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov, the PSO presents orchestral, pops, and chamber music programs of the highest artistic quality, supported by lectures and related events that supplement the concert experience. Its flagship summer program the Princeton Festival brings an array of performing arts and artists to Princeton during multiple weeks in June. Through PSO BRAVO!, the orchestra produces wide-reaching and impactful education programs in partnership with local schools and arts organizations that culminate in students attending a live orchestral performance. The PSO receives considerable support from the Princeton community and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, regularly garnering NJSCA’s highest honor. Recognition of engaging residencies and concerts has come from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the PSO’s commitment to new music has been acknowledged with an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and a Copland Fund Award. The only independent, professional orchestra to make its home in Princeton, the PSO performs at historic Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.
