Tag: Princeton Festival
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Princeton Symphony Orchestra plans multi-faceted outdoor festival for June
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is planning an all-new outdoor Princeton Festival June 10-25, with a cohesive campus plan, community cooperation and artist participation. A cadre of opera singers are poised to inhabit the comic characters of Derrick Wang’s “Scalia/Ginsburg” and W.A. Mozart’s “The Impresario,” as well as Benjamin Britten’s full-length opera “Albert Herring.” Concerts featuring top…
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Princeton Festival names interim executive director
The Princeton Festival has appointed Becky Brett, an award-winning leader of festivals in the performing arts and humanities, as its interim executive director. Brett will oversee the festival’s 2021 season, help strengthen its professional staff, and take a role in fundraising, among other duties. “We feel very fortunate to have found an interim executive director…
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Seven winners selected in global Princeton Festival Youth Piano Competition
The Princeton Festival’s 14th annual piano competition, and the first to be held virtually, presented its online audience with seven winners singled out from among some of the best musical talent from around the world. The young artists were chosen from among 21 finalists, who in turn were selected from a pool of over 240…
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Executive and artistic director leaves Princeton Festival
The Princeton Festival announced that Richard Tang Yuk, executive and artistic director and one of the organization’s founders, has decided to leave the festival. “After 16 wonderful years with the Princeton Festival, I am excited to pass the reins to its next leaders and watch the Festival continue to thrive and move to the next…
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Princeton Festival adds three trustees to board
Three prominent area residents – Gail Kohn, Leila Shahbender,and Rita Shklar – have been elected to three-year renewable terms on the Board of Trustees of the Princeton Festival. “We are fortunate that three such accomplished and dedicated supporters of the performing arts have chosen to join our Board,” said Benedikt von Schröder, board chair, in…
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Princeton Festival to launch online ‘Virtually Yours’ free events every day in June
The Princeton Festival has announced “Virtually Yours,” a free online festival of live and recorded performances of instrumental and vocal music, musical theater, opera and poetry, plus educational presentations. There will be different events every day from June 1 to 28; a full schedule is available at www.princetonfestival.org. “When the coronavirus threat forced cancellation of…
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Princeton Festival offers video recordings by contemporary international poets
The Princeton Festival is presenting exclusive video readings by 12 distinguished, widely published poets from the U.S., Japan and China on Facebook (www.facebook.com/princetonfest), Instagram (www.instagram.com/princetonfest), and the festival website (www.princetonfestival.org/performance/poetry-reading-series/). The festival series features a different poet every day, reading a poem on the general topic of women. Each reading will take approximately one minute.…
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Princeton Festival cancels its 2020 season
The Princeton Festival canceled its 2020 season. This includes 22 performances of nine events in June, plus 15 free lectures, workshops and special events scheduled to start in May, Benedikt von Schröder, chair of the Board of Trustees, said in a prepared statement. “Naturally, it is frustrating not to be able to present the wonderful…