THE COMING SEASON: Violinist Aubree Oliverson returns as soloist with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) for season-opening concerts October 25-26. (Photo by PSO staff)
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.
All Classical Series performances take place on select Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. (a new start time) and Sundays as usual at 4 p.m. This year’s Holiday POPS! concerts take place on 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. Pianists Maxim Lando and 2025 Grammy winner Michelle Cann, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, and Serbian-French cellist Maja Bogdanovic will each be appearing with the PSO for the first time.
The season includes concertos by Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Grieg, and 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 Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 as orchestrated by Schoenberg, Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, Shostakovich’s First Symphony, Beethoven’s Second Symphony, and Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony. Princeton Festival veterans Aubry Ballarò, soprano; Nicholas Nestorak, tenor; and Joseph Barron, bass will perform the full version of 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 percent) and Pick 3+ ticket packages available.