NEWS & UPDATES
October 25, 2025
| | The Beat: News from Our Music Community | | |
Rachel Glodo Reflects on Mary Chapin Carpenter & Brandy Clark in a New Essay | Ph.D. candidate in musicology Rachel Glodo recently attended Mary Chapin Carpenter & Brandy Clark at McCarter Theatre on September 28, 2025, as part of the Graduate School’s “Scholars in the Community” initiative and partnership between GradFutures and the McCarter Theater. Rachel’s research explores Russian ballet music and American roots genres—making this concert a meaningful intersection of her academic and musical interests. | |
Trinity Laban Fall 2026 Info Session
Oct. 29, 2025, 12:00 pm
Effron Music Building Jazz Studio
Come learn more about our Jazz Performance study abroad program at the Trinity Laban Conservatorie in London! This program is fall semesters only for juniors. Admission is by pre-recorded audition and application.
RSVP to the Trinity Laban Info Session
Learn about our Study Abroad Programs
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Royal College of Music Fall 2026 Info Session
Nov. 3, 2025, 12:15 pm
Woolworth Room 102
Come learn more about our classical performance study abroad program at the Royal College of Music in London! This program is fall semesters only for juniors. Admission is by live audition and application.
RSVP to the Royal College of Music Info Session
Learn about our Study Abroad Programs
| Princeton at the Grammys Exhibition | |
Dozens of Princeton undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty have received GRAMMY® nominations and awards, from the third annual awards in 1961 to present day. Princetonians have received nods for both composition and performance in classical, opera, crossover, jazz, pop, alternative, and world music genres. Join us in celebrating some of the many exceptional musicians who have studied and taught at Princeton.
From October 2025- June 2026 at Mendel Music Library
Check out the Digital exhibition!
Curated by Lisa Read, Music Librarian and Brittany Nielson, Coordinator for Digital Projects and Collection Management
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A Masterclass with Mariko Anraku, harp
WHEN: Oct. 26, 2025, 3:00 pm
WHERE: Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall
Learn about Mariko Anraku Masterclass
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Princeton Sound Kitchen presents Liam Elliot: ‘Resin’
WHEN: Oct. 26, 2025, 8:00 pm
WHERE: Lee Rehearsal Room, Lewis Arts Complex
Learn about Princeton Sound Kitchen Concert
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Halloween with Sinfonia
WHEN: Oct. 30, 2025, 7:30 pm
WHERE: Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Learn about Sinfonia's Halloween Concert
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Graduate Composition Open Houses
Learn about Princeton’s graduate program in Composition at our Open Houses, where you can meet faculty, explore current student work, and get an inside look at the creative community that defines our department.
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Nov. 4: Virtual Session
- Dec. 1: In-Person Session
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GradFUTURES Alum Mentorship Program
Mentorship is an essential part of your graduate student experience. In addition to your faculty advisers, graduate alums can serve as mentors, role models, connectors, and thought partners. The GradFUTURES Graduate Alum Mentorship Program matches current graduate students with alum mentors who may share invaluable insights based on their academic and professional experiences, suggest helpful skills and strategies, connect you to others in their network, and support you in navigating your journey at Princeton and beyond. Our growing network of mentors offers guidance and advice across a broad range of fields.
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Mendel Library News
Upcoming PUL Lecture: "Graphic Minded" with artists Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi
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Please join Princeton University Library for the annual Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture, featuring the multimedia artist group, Sonnenzimmer, on Thursday, October 30th, 5-6pm, in the Library Commons Classroom (D112).
Sonnenzimmer is a graphic-centric studio practice made up of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi. For over 20 years, their collaboration has reimagined the graphic arts as an agent of change. This lecture will feature a layered program that includes performance, live media, and music, presented in a way that challenges the preconceived notions of the graphic arts.
Through prepared remarks, reflections, and guided visualizations sparked by 20 years of exploratory self-publishing, Sonnenzimmer’s “Graphic Minded” stands as a living document of contemporary graphic expression as unique as it is universal.
This lecture is presented in-person and online, and will also serve as a great opportunity to check out the new Commons Library space!
Click here to see more info and register for the event.
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Commons Library Classroom (D112)
| | | Around the Corner: Campus Collaborations | | |
The After Noon Concert Series is a weekly opportunity for the Princeton Community to enjoy performances at the Princeton University Chapel by various local, national, and international organists. These half-hour concerts showcase the flexibility of the magnificent Skinner/Mander Chapel organ. Each visiting organist rehearses and performs, bringing forth a different voice and character from the organ.
12:30-1:00 PM
October 30 – Rhonda Sider Edgington
Calvin University
Grand Rapids, MI
November 6 – Sarah Palmer
Student, Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia, PA
Learn more about After Noon Concert Series
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Upcoming McCarter Picks:
- 300 Paintings — October 29 – November 2, 2025
- Princeton’s Famous Triangle Show: Aisle Be Damned! — November 14–16, 2025
- McCarter at the Museum: The Art of a Song / The Art of The Moth — November 1, 2025 (part of the Princeton University Art Museum’s 24-hour open house)
Student Ticket Tips
- Princeton students can reserve free tickets via Passport to the Arts using promo code PUTIGER (first–last day of classes)
Full list of events and student ticket information.
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Princeton University Museum Student Preview
Saturday, October 25, 7-10 pm
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Princeton University Museum Open House
October 31- November 1
| | | Wickerwork: A Poetry-in-Translation Conversation | |
Christian Lehnert and Lehnert - University of Leipzig; Sieburth - New York University
Monday, October 27
4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 205
East Pyne
The German Department announces the following poetry-in-translation workshop on October 27 with the poet Christian Lehnert, who won the Hölderlin Prize 2025, and his most prolific translator, Richard Sieburth. Wickerwork contains Opus 8, which Sieburth aptly describes as "suggestive of the cataloging of a composer's work. Lehnert's verse is steeped in music, ranging from his refashionings of the hymns of the baroque poet Paul Gerhardt to his libretti for the well-known avantgarde composer Hans Werner Hense. Opus 8 he describes as having the musical structure of a Bach cantata or fugue, organized along mathematical lines.
| | | From Paris to Romania: Music of George Enescu |
Kevin Matheson, violinist; Tim Fuller, pianist
Tuesday, November 18, 7:30 pm—9:00 pm
Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall
Humanities Council; Department of Music
Violinist Kevin Matheson and pianist Tim Fuller will present music by the Romanian composer and virtuoso George Enescu at Taplin Auditorium on the Princeton University campus.
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