Arts & Entertainment

Long Time Residents Join Princeton Festival Board Of Trustees

They will help with planning for the 2017 festival.

Princeton, NJ --- Four well-known residents of the Princeton area are the newest members of the Princeton Festival’s Board of Trustees, the festival announced this weekend.

The new board members are: Jane DeLung, Deborah Herman, Sarah Ringer and Benedikt von Shroder.
Their immediate responsibilities include overseeing the Festival’s 13th annual season of performing arts presentations, which take place in June of 2017.

“The 2016 season was our most successful ever, thanks in large part to the dedication of our Board,” Princeton Festival General and Artistic Director Richard Tang Yuk said. “The appointment of these four outstanding individuals will further strengthen this crucial resource and help the Festival to continue to grow.”

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Board members are appointed to three-year terms, and may serve more than one term.

During the 2016 season, the Princeton Festival drew audiences from throughout New Jersey and across the mid-Atlantic region for three and a half weeks of wide-ranging performances that included opera, jazz, multimedia, solo recital, and musical theater.

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Tang Yuk will announce what’s in store for the 2017 Princeton Festival at a wine tasting fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 15, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Hopewell Castle. Registration is available through www.princetonfestival.org.

The attached image was provided by the Princeton Festival: New Princeton Festival Board members include (l to r) Deborah Herman, Sarah Ringer, and Jane DeLung, and Benedikt von Schroder (not pictured).

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