The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is committed to performing the world’s greatest musical masterworks of composers past and present, near and far. The NJSO is proud to introduce the New Jersey Roots Project revealing a broad range of world-class music from within our borders. This multi-year project focuses on composers who were either born in New Jersey or whose time spent in the Garden State has significantly influenced their artistic identity. The project places the best works by composers such as Roger Sessions, George Walker, Peter Maxwell Davies and Lowell Liebermann in the context of the global symphonic repertoire.

Two major concert events highlight New Jersey Roots 2010–11. In his opening performance as Music Director of the NJSO, Jacques Lacombe gives the world premiere of a new orchestral suite from Robert Aldridge’s acclaimed opera Elmer Gantry. And in November, NJSO concertmaster
Eric Wyrick takes center stage as soloist in the Violin Concerto by Edward T. Cone, marking the
first NJSO performances of music by this important Princeton composer and musical thinker.
Don’t miss these exciting events that set the tone for the NJSO’s newest artistic endeavor!