Princeton University Orchestra

04/17/2026

TONIGHT and TOMORROW at 7:30pm in Richardson!!!

We are thrilled to be performing such wonderful music with the as well as star vocal soloists Talia Czuchlewski ‘26, Gabrielle Liberman ‘28, Arturo Cruz Urratia ‘27, and Evan Shidler ‘27!!

📆 Friday and Saturday, April 17-18 at 7:30pm
📍 Richardson Auditorium at Alexander Hall
🎟️ FREE with Passport to the Arts!
or, $6 students, $16 general at tickets.princeton.edu

04/17/2026

TONIGHT and TOMORROW at 7:30pm!!!

THE WAIT IS OVER! Please join the Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club for our annual Stuart Mindlin and Walter Nollner Memorial Concert showcasing our collaboration!! 🎼🎤🎻

This concert will feature incredible soloists Talia Czuchlewski '26, Gabrielle Liberman '28, Arturo Cruz Urrutia '27, and Evan Shidler '27.

Enjoy a magnificent program consisting of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 alongside Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. Don't miss this extraordinary evening where two landmark works spanning two centuries come together for a night of power, beauty, and transcendence!

📆 Friday and Saturday, April 17~18 at 7:30PM
📍Richardson Auditorium
🎟️ FREE with Passport to the Arts!
$6 Students, $16 General at tickets.princeton.edu

02/19/2026

🎶CONCERTS NEXT WEEK🎶 We are thrilled to be performing in our first concerts of 2026 with three of the winners of the 2025 PUO Concerto Competition — Ian Barnett ’27, Daniel Kim ’26, and Maurice Neuman ’28!! We will also be performing “Swell” by grad student Max Vinetz, a stunning talent in modern music composition; and our illustrious assistant conductor Hannah Ishizaki (also GS) will conduct the Copland! You won’t want to miss this showcase of incredible student talent!

🗓️Friday, February 27, 7:30pm
🗓️Saturday, February 28, 7:30pm
📍Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall

🎫Tickets at the link in our bio; $16 general / $6 students, or FREE for Princeton students with Passport to the Arts. (Please DM us if you are having issues getting Passport to work!)

01/02/2026

Bonus features from a very special concert weekend with very special people 🫶✨ [11/21/25 – 11/22/25]

SOO YEON LYUH – “Celestial Dream” for haegeum and orchestra
Soo Yeon Lyuh, haegeum
Hannah Ishizaki, conductor

GUSTAV MAHLER – Symphony No. 5

12/31/2025

Love letter to our November concerts 💌 [11/21/25 – 11/22/25]

Last month, PUO took the stage on two unforgettable nights, with Mahler’s 5th Symphony alongside Soo Yeon Lyuh’s own performance of her new composition “Celestial Dream” for haegeum and orchestra, conducted by Hannah Ishizaki! Both Soo Yeon and Hannah are grad students, and we are so proud of their hard work and to have been able to perform with them!

We are enormously grateful to every audience member who joined us on these incredibly meaningful and joy-filled nights. We have so appreciated all the stories our friends have told us about their experiences in the audience. It means the world to us to have people to share our music with! 🧡✨

Looking forward to our next concerts already? We certainly are!! Mark your calendars for 🎶 February 27 and 28 🎶 at 7:30pm in Richardson Auditorium for our annual concerto concerts showcasing winners of the PUO Concerto Competition, as well as a new work by grad student Max Vinetz!

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12/29/2025

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to this year’s PUO Concerto Competition winners!!! 🎉 We are so proud of them and we can’t wait to perform their concertos with them in our upcoming concerts!

Ian Barnett ‘27: Barber Violin Concerto
Daniel Kim ‘26: Copland Clarinet Concerto
Maurice Neuman ‘28: Haydn Cello Concerto in C
Max Salzinger ‘29: Korngold Cello Concerto

Ian, Daniel, and Maurice will perform in our next concerts on February 27 and 28, and Max will perform with us in the fall 2026 semester. Stay tuned for more info!

P.S. The winners are all members of .princeton, Princeton’s stellar student-run chamber music society!

11/18/2025

✨Spotlight✨ on our composer and soloist, grad student Soo Yeon Lyuh, who will solo in our performance of her concerto “Celestial Dream” for haegeum and orchestra this Friday and Saturday!

Soo Yeon Lyuh is a composer, improviser, and master of the haegeum, a two-stringed Korean bowed instrument. Hailing from Daegu, South Korea by way of Princeton, New Jersey, Lyuh draws inspiration from traditional Korean music to perform a meld of improvisatory and experimental sounds.

As a composer, Lyuh asks classically trained performers to think outside the box, drawing out fresh sounds that, once understood, sound organic. Although these sounds are difficult to specify with notation, Lyuh notates a lot of them and often demonstrates the parts by joining and performing with the ensemble. Ultimately, Lyuh is all about making a bridge between cultures across difficult times, and breaking down any walls.

Come see the magic of her artistry in our concerts this weekend!

🗓️Friday, November 21, 7:30pm
🗓️Saturday, November 22, 7:30pm
📍Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall

🎫Tickets at the link in our bio, FREE for Princeton students with Passport to the Arts; otherwise, $6 students / $16 general.

11/13/2025

Have you heard? 🗣️ It’s MAHLER SEASON in PUO!! 🗣️ In other words… we have been hard at work rehearsing the tour de force that is Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony, in preparation for our ✨concerts NEXT WEEK ✨(Friday and Saturday)! We are also thrilled to be performing grad student Soo Yeon Lyuh ()’s Haegeum Concerto “Celestial Dream,” conducted by our phenomenal assistant conductor Hannah Ishizaki ()! You won’t want to miss this show-stopping program — get your tickets at the link below/in our bio, FREE for Princeton students with Passport to the Arts; otherwise, $6 students and $16 general.

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🗓️Friday, November 21, 7:30pm
🗓️Saturday, November 22, 7:30pm
📍Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall

🎫Tickets for Friday: https://tickets.princeton.edu/event/princeton-university-orchestra-sd9t3x
🎫Tickets for Saturday: https://tickets.princeton.edu/event/princeton-university-orchestra-0heuk1ri

10/20/2025

✨Concert Recap + Looking Ahead ✨ Thank you so much to everyone who came to our first concerts of the season earlier this month! It was a joy to bring the musical beauty of Roy Harris and Hector Berlioz to you all. 📸: Youngsoo Choi

Our next concerts are just over a month away!! We will be performing a truly spectacular program: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 alongside composition grad student Soo Yeon Lyuh ()’s Concerto for Haegeum and Orchestra, with Soo Yeon herself playing the haegeum!

Tickets available at the links below and in our bio, FREE for Princeton students with Passport to the Arts, otherwise $6 students & $16 general.

🗓️Friday, November 21, 7:30pm
🗓️Saturday, November 22, 7:30pm
📍Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall

🎫Tickets for Friday: https://tickets.princeton.edu/event/princeton-university-orchestra-sd9t3x
🎫Tickets for Saturday: https://tickets.princeton.edu/event/princeton-university-orchestra-0heuk1

10/05/2025