Princeton University Concerts Announces 2023-24 Performance Season

PRINCETON, NJ —Princeton University Concerts has announced its 2023-24 performance season which includes a wide range of artists, concert formats and experiences.

PUC experiences include Concert Classics with the audience seated in the 800-seat Richardson Auditorium; Special Events mainstage concerts with soloists; the Performances Up Close series, with the audience seated alongside the artist on stage in a more informal and intimate atmosphere; the Healing with Music conversation-concert series highlighting music’s powerful role through adversity; Family Concerts and more.

In the 23-24 season PUC will offer several multidisciplinary experiences featuring award-winning writers, dancers, and experts from other fields alongside musicians. Headlining the 23-24 Healing with Music series will be Suleika Jaouad, New York Times bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and her husband Jon Batiste, Grammy Award-winning musician, singer, songwriter, composer, bandleader, and television personality.

Artists of the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dance for PD program and local experts from the Princeton University faculty will lead a panel highlighting music’s extraordinary medicinal role for people with Parkinson’s. The event will include a performance of Mark Morris choreography adapted for the Parkinson’s community and set to live music by local Dance for PD participants.

The 23-24 Season will open with Dreamers’ Circus - astounding acrobatics on violin, accordion/piano, and the cittern. The trio performs original, genre-bending compositions that blend vibrant folk traditions with influences from jazz, classical, and pop music spheres—pushing the Nordic sound into an imaginative new realm.

Also making their PUC debut, is the multiple Grammy Award-winning Chanticleer choir. The acclaimed U.K.-based Doric String Quartet will also be making their PUC debut with a program that includes a new work specifically written for them by Australian composer Brett Dean.

“Every year at PUC, we strive to bring the communal spirit of a Schubertiade to all of our programs. The world-renowned, diverse artists we bring across a wide variety of performance formats help us see classical music in new ways through their program curation and performance; they spark conversations among concertgoers, keeping the art vibrant, alive, and immediate," PUC Director Marna Seltzer said.

“Beyond the concert hall we aim to extend the conversation through community-oriented
programs like Do-Re-Meet, concerts by the Princeton faculty ensemble Richardson Chamber Players, our Family concerts, companion documentary screenings at The Garden Theatre, and our community Chamber Jam. We also proudly continue to facilitate the Neighborhood Music Project, an educational initiative connecting students in neighboring communities with the guest musicians through classroom visits and field trips to concerts. We can’t wait to get to know you and for you to get to know music, to quote legendary pianist Mitsuko Uchida, ‘a little
more.’”

A comprehensive list of 23/24 Season Concert Classics, Special Events, Performance Up Close, and Healing with Music performances can be found below or at puc.princeton.edu.

For more information, please visit puc.princeton.edu or call 609-258-2800.