Events in Trenton, United States

Finally making its PUC debut after a pandemic cancellation, the U.K.-based Doric Quartet has been at the helm of a new generation of string quartets, winning countless accolades for its riveting interpretations and inimitable sound. We will have the extraordinary opp ..

Following his appearance on our Concert Classics series with Mitsuko Uchida, PUC-fan-favorite pianist Jonathan Biss comes to our Healing with Music series alongside Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Adam Haslett for an intimate concert-conversation cent ..

South African soprano Golda Schultz has been gracing the stage of the world's greatest opera houses-from the Metropolitan Opera to the Vienna State Opera. Equally at home in leading operatic roles as she is as a soloist with the world's foremost orchestras and in the ..

"Jonathan and I share the deep conviction that you can never really know all there is to know about great music," remarks Mitsuko Uchida, one of the world's most revered Schubert interpreters, "and that it's worth spending your whole life trying to know a little more ..

"Beethoven Meets Haydn" — Take an exciting adventure through time as we meet Franz Joseph Haydn and his equally famous student, Ludwig van Beethoven. Through music for the piano trio, we learn about the connection between these great composers. Join musicians from th ..

"One of the finest quartets of our time, the Hagen [Quartet] … comes too rarely to our shores," proclaims the Washington Post. Having recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, the most senior and venerated of the European quartets finally returns to PUC with a progra ..

"What happens to me when my feet feel like glue and they're stuck on the floor - I sometimes cannot walk, but I can dance...the music leads me to a place where I am weightless" shares Cyndy, a participant of Dance for PD®. Developed by the Mark Morris Dance Group int ..

When the Faust-Queyras-Melnikov trio first came to PUC in 2020 with an all-Beethoven program, their sold-out performance was pronounced one of the most profound recitals in our recent history. Individually, each artist is exceptional; together, they are nothing short ..

It is quite rare on our series for an artist to make consecutive appearances from season to season. Yet Víkingur Ólafsson's stunning debut on our 2022-23 season made a return appearance paramount. J.S. Bach is especially close to the Icelandic virtuoso's heart-his al ..

Considered to be "the most influential jazz pianist of the last 20 years" (The New York Times) with the touch of Bill Evans, range of Keith Jarrett, and innovation of Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau is one of the greatest musical giants of our time. The 2020 GRAMMY-winner ..

One of the most remarkable individuals of our time, pianist Helene Grimaud is as renowned for her heartfelt, poetic interpretations and dazzling technical prowess as she is for her profound work as a conservationist and human rights activist-distinctions for which sh ..

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra returns to Princeton – in virtual reality! With the aid of VR headsets you will be transported to a fully immersive world of music in which you can move around (or through/over/under!) the musicians as a multi-dimensional recording respon ..

"Oncology wards, more than anywhere else I know, are music-less places," wrote Suleika Jaouad as part of Life, Interrupted, the Emmy award-winning New York Times column and video series she wrote while hospitalized for leukemia shortly after graduating from Princeton ..

Whatever your preconceptions of the harpsichord may be, Jean Rondeau will undoubtedly shatter them all as he takes us to Parnassus, the mythological mountain home of the Muses. Leading the charge of a new generation of keyboardists, including as a founding member of ..

It's Friendsgiving Season! What better way to add to your music-loving friend Liszt than getting to know your fellow audience members by experiencing harpsichordist Jean Rondeau's magic before enjoying organized rounds of 8-minute "speed friending" sessions over some ..

Whatever your preconceptions of the harpsichord may be, Jean Rondeau will undoubtedly shatter them all as he takes us to Parnassus, the mythological mountain home of the Muses. Leading the charge of a new generation of keyboardists, including as a founding member of ..

Describing themselves as "your friendly neighborhood string quartets with above average amounts of beard," the Grammy Award-nominated Danish String Quartet combines a down-to-earth sensibility with an astounding unity of sound that has placed them firmly within the r ..