Community Calendar

Acclaimed violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is known for channeling her award-winning virtuosity as a means of championing worthy music by lesser or unknown composers from her native Ukraine. For her first appearance at GatherNYC, Solomiya is joined by violist William Frampton and cellist Laura Metcalf to present a forgotten masterwork by Fedir Yakymenko, a colorful and rhapsodic piece written around the turn of the 20th century. Ukrainian by birth and spending his life in Russia and France, Yakymenko deftly blends French and Ukrainian sounds and styles into this delightful piece, which deserves to be heard and remembered.

GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2024-2025 season includes 17-concerts that run from October 2024 through June 2025, with concerts held every other Sunday at 11am in The Theater at MAD.

Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music performed by New York’s immensely talented artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome. Coffee and pastries are served before each performance at 10:30am.

The Greater Atlantic Partnership and Atlantic Prevention Resources proudly present The Power of Positivity: Life Without Limits Art Contest. The contest is open to middle school students in Atlantic County, grades 6-8. The schools involved will collect all artwork submissions from students before the deadline. Atlantic Prevention Resources will organize a pick-up of all student works. All submissions must be received by April 7, 2025. The top three winners will be awarded a gift card, and first place will have their art displayed on a billboard in the local community.
Featured student artwork from talented middle school students will be shown in an art exhibit at the Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University from April 30 to May 11, celebrating how positive actions and mindsets can lead to a fulfilling, substance-free life. The exhibit will be open to the public for all to enjoy!

Celebrate Mother’s Day at our delightful family-friendly event. Beginning with the Overture to William Tell by Gioachino Rossini this concert will engage even the youngest music lovers! We are also performing the enchanting Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 by Edvard Grieg, and the charming tale of Tubby the Tuba by George Kleinsinger. Our 2025 Mary G. Roebling Concerto Competition winner is sure to inspire audiences of all ages. Bring your loved ones and make this Mother’s Day a memorable celebration with us!

Sebastian Grand, Conductor
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Youth Concerto Competition Winner
Grieg: Peer Gynt
Kleinsinger: Tubby the Tuba
Performance by our Mary G. Roebling Youth Concerto winner

Spring is here! Cast off your Winter blues with this program of Springtime music - bird songs, love songs, and May dances, highlighting Piffaro's rich and varied instrumentarium.

“Widely regarded as North America's masters of music for Renaissance wind band” (St Paul Pioneer Press), Piffaro delights audiences throughout the world with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its musicians perform on shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.

Saturday, May 10 at 8pm and Sunday, May 11 at 4pm – Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is joined by pianist Natasha Paremski performing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Hymn of the Cherubim” and Johannes Brahms’ Schicksalslied featuring the Westminster Symphonic Choir. Rossen Milanov conducts. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton University Campus, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $40 (children 5-17 who are accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice, contact Mika Godbole at mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org or (609) 905-0931; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org or 609-497-0020.

Programs, artists, dates, and times are subject to change.

GRAMMY-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein, an Artist-in-Residence with the Kaufman Music Center this season, performs an all-Philip Glass concert as part of KMC’s Piano Dialogues series. Described by The New York Times as “colorful and idiosyncratic,” Dinnerstein will perform three works by the American minimalist master – Glass’s Mad Rush for solo piano, plus two concertos with her string ensemble Baroklyn – Glass’s “Tirol” Piano Concerto (Piano Concerto No. 1) and, for the first time, his Suite from The Hours.

On Tuesday May 13, 2025, at 8 PM, Altalena Artists Collective and The Liszt Institute New York will present “Exploring Inner Landscapes” a concert featuring Hungarian pianist Alexandra Balog in her Carnegie Hall Debut at Weill Recital Hall. Ms. Balog won the 2017 Béla Bartók International Piano Competition in Graz Austria, the Talentum Hungaricum award (2020),  and the Junior Príma prize, the most prestigious award in Hungary for young musicians (2023). 

This intimately crafted program explores the themes of introspection, self-discovery, and depth that can only be reached and expressed through music. The program includes the world premiere of British-Austrian composer Noah Max’s “Piano Sonata, Op. 54, No. 2, ‘The Curve.’”

Exploring Inner Landscapes is a solo piano program by pianist Alexandra Balog, inviting audiences to journey through the inner realm of music with works by five composers with distinct styles: Kodály, Chopin, Mozart, Schubert and Noah Max. This carefully curated and intimate program explores the themes of introspection, self-discovery, and depth that can only be reached and expressed through music.

Wednesday, May 14, 7PM
The Westminster Choir in Concert: The Sense of Senses
Donnald Nally, Director; Eric Plutz, Collaborative Keyboards
All Saints' Church, 16 All Saints' Rd, Princeton NJ
Tickets available at the door: $25

The Westminster Choir sings an eclectic program covering 400 years of choral music, beginning with an exploration of the Baroque motet from a simple, expressive early-17th-century work of Heinrich Schütz to Bach's mid-18th-century mesmerizing counterpoint.. Cellist Frankie Carr and keyboardist Eric Plutz join the choir in 21st-century laments and celebrations: the plaintive Sanctus of Sebastian Currier, Reena Esmail's Hindustani-influenced setting of 14th-century poetry, David Lang's meditative perspectives on Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs. A bit of Westminster history is also touched on in works of Gian Carlo Menotti, founder of the Spoleto Festival, and alumna Rosephanye Powell. Donald Nally conducts.

Jazz Jam open to all, featuring MCCC Music Faculty and Students as part of the house band.