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Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) presents internationally acclaimed violinist Bella Hristova performing Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Also on the program are Andreia Pinto Correia’s Ciprés and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1. 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.

GatherNYC is proud to present the newly formed ensemble, Ember, consisting of harpist Emily Levin, violinist Julia Choi and cellist Christine Lamprea, in a concert featuring repertoire from their debut album Birds of Paradise, released in fall 2025 to great critical acclaim. With this release, the ensemble challenges the role of the harp as an instrument of femininity and domesticity, centering it in a position of power and strength.

GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2025-2026 season includes 31 concerts that run from October 2025 through May 2026, with concerts held every 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.

"Quest" is pianist Chelsea Randall’s interdisciplinary commissioning project celebrating the potent and timely work of trailblazing Black Arts Movement poets and the legacy of her great uncle, the poet and editor Dudley Randall, through the lens of new piano music. Presented as part of Chelsea’s initiative the American Mavericks Project (AMP), which is dedicated to piano music by Black American composers, she will premiere six new commissions for solo piano by esteemed composers Carolyn Yarnell, Adolphus Hailstork, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Anthony R. Green, Regina Harris Baiocchi and Jeremiah Evans, inspired by the poetry of Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Naomi Long Madgett and Dudley Randall, who platformed these poets via his Detroit-based Broadside Press. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan’s Poet Laureate and Dudley Randall’s biographer, will recite the poems which inspired the commissioned works alongside Chelsea’s performances. "Quest" is dedicated to the memory of Nikki Giovanni.