Pianist Michelle Cann will join the Princeton Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, February 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, February 8 at 4 p.m. as soloist in Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16, at Richardson Auditorium. The program, which also includes works by Beethoven and Princeton University PhD candidate Jessie Montgomery, is conducted by Kenneth Bean.

Cann’s recent appearances have been with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and Orquestra Sinfonica Municipal de Sao Paulo. She is recognized as a leading interpreter of the music of Florence Price.

Montgomery’s Records from a Vanishing City is based on her recollections of the music that surrounded her as she grew up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1980s and 1990s. The composer won the 2024 Grammy award for best contemporary classical composition for her work, Rounds.

Beethoven composed his Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Opus 36, one of his lesser-known works, while in the midst of reckoning with the profound hearing loss he would suffer from for the rest of his life.

Visit princetonsymphony.org for ticket information.