Princeton Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Music Director’s 60th Birthday

PRINCETON, NJ—The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) box office is now open for the 2024-25 Season, giving music lovers an early opportunity to purchase great seats for all of its mainstage concerts.

The season will celebrate the 60th birthday of Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov with a line-up of top guest artists including violinists Leila Josefowicz and Aubree Oliverson, pianist Orli Shaham, Princeton University’s Performers-in-Residence Sō Percussion, and pianist Natasha Paremski.

An extraordinary line-up of favorite works has been programmed, including concertos by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Triple Concerto will display the talents of PSO concertmaster Basia Danilow and principal cellist Alistair MacRae with pianist Steven Beck.

In addition to Viet Cuong, other living composers whose works will be featured this season include Gemma Peacocke, Michael Abels, and Carlos Simon. There are also symphonies by Johannes Brahms, Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven, an all-Mozart concert conducted by Gérard Korsten, plus choral music by Brahms and Tchaikovsky performed by Rider University’s Westminster Symphonic Choir.

Milanov regularly collaborates with artists of the orchestral world, and helms the PSO’s popular June performing arts celebration – The Princeton Festival.

He is also the music director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and chief conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in Ljubljana.

He has conducted over 200 concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra and performances with the New York City Ballet, Zurich Ballet, and La Scala Ballet in Paris. He presents education projects with Carnegie Hall and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and leads the PSO’s BRAVO! concerts for school children. He is a 2011 ASCAP award winner and a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School.

All performances will take place on select Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m., at Richardson Auditorium on Princeton University’s campus.

Single tickets are now available as well as cost-saving full subscriptions and Pick 3+ ticket packages.

Full Season subscriptions start at $189. Youths 5-17 receive a 50 percent discount with an adult purchase.

Visit the Princeton Symphony Orchestra website at princetonsymphony.org or call 609-497-0020.