Press Releases

Jan 29, 2024

New Jersey Symphony Presents Respect: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin

Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw join the New Jersey Symphony to celebrate the greatest hits of pop music icon Aretha Franklin, with Lucas Waldin conducting…

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Jan 4, 2024

New Jersey Symphony Announces Board Appointments

The New Jersey Symphony has appointed Craig Silliman as the new Co-Chair of the Board alongside current Co-Chair Robert C. Garrett, while Robert Gordon…

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Jan 2, 2024

New Jersey Symphony Presents Concert Weekend Examining ‘The American Dream’

The New Jersey Symphony will perform a series of works that focuses on the stories and facts that have formulated the idea of the American Dream, January…

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Dec 18, 2023

Danny DeVito live narrates Matilda in Concert with the New Jersey Symphony

New Jersey native and acclaimed actor, producer and director Danny DeVito joins David Newman, the composer of the score for Matilda, to…

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Dec 14, 2023

New Jersey Symphony Presents GRAMMY® Award-Winning Violinist Augustin Hadelich with Music Director Xian Zhang

GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich joins Music Director Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony to perform Beethoven’s Violin…

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Dec 8, 2023

Applications are open for the 2024 Edward T. Cone Composition Institute

Call for Scores: The New Jersey Symphony announces that it is accepting applications for the 2024 Edward T. Cone Composition Institute through Friday,…

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Dec 5, 2023

New Jersey Symphony Blends East and West to Celebrate Lunar New Year

The New Jersey Symphony celebrates the Year of the Dragon in a special celebration that features a pre-concert Cultural Exchange Festival and concert…

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Nov 7, 2023

New Jersey Symphony Presents Holiday Classic Handel’s Messiah

Nicholas McGegan joins the New Jersey Symphony to conduct Handel’s incomparable holiday classic with a host of guest vocalists and the Montclair…

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Nov 1, 2023

New Jersey Symphony Presents Violinist Joshua Bell in Concert

The acclaimed violinist returns to the New Jersey Symphony to conduct and perform with the orchestra in a program that features Mendelssohn’s Violin…

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Oct 11, 2023

New Jersey Symphony Debuts One-of-a-Kind Opera Short Film Starring Monét X Change

The short film, starring two-crown “RuPaul’s Drag Race” winner Monét X Change and the New Jersey Symphony Chamber…

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Oct 6, 2023

New Jersey Symphony Appoints Sue On as Repertory Orchestra Conductor for the New Jersey Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Resident Youth Orchestra of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University

As the conductor for the new intermediate-level symphonic orchestra, On will work closely with Youth Orchestra Artistic Director Diego García…

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Oct 4, 2023

New Jersey Symphony Announces Jessica Rivero Altarriba as its first-ever Colton Conducting Fellow

Altarriba will work closely with Music Director Xian Zhang and will serve as the conductor for New Jersey Symphony’s educational concerts as well…

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