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New Jersey Symphony will present three performances of The Firebird with Music Director Xian Zhang conducting and featuring performances from Nimbus Dance.

Mayor Steven M. Fulop and the New Jersey Symphony have announced the renowned Symphony's relocation to a new state-of-the-art, 44,000-square-foot theater in Jersey City's downtown Powerhouse Arts District.

New Jersey Symphony will present Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene with Renée Fleming on Sunday, October 6, 2024, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, beginning at 3 pm.

The New Jersey Symphony has announced Gregory D. McDaniel as the Colton Conducting Fellow for the 2024–25 season.

New Jersey Symphony’s Free Summer Chamber Concert at Provost Square Plaza in Jersey City on Thursday, August 8 at 7 pm will be moved indoors due to expected rain.

All single tickets are now available for purchase to the New Jersey Symphony’s 2024–25 season. Learn more about the programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Following contributions from New York hip-hop duo Armand Hammer, L.A.-based avant-garde composer William Basinski and legendary London producer Matthew Herbert, Hatis Noit’s Aura Reworks series continues with a transcendental reinterpretation of her debut album Aura's title track, featuring Harlem-based multi-instrumentalist, laughter meditation practitioner and ambient godfather Laraaji.

New Jersey Symphony named Angelique Montes and Thierry de Lucas Neves as Colton Orchestral Fellows for the 2024–25 season, recognizing their talent and contributions to the classical music community. Learn more!

New Jersey Symphony’s Summer Outdoor Concert at Liberty State Park in Jersey City on Sunday, June 30, will move indoors due to inclement weather.

The New Jersey Symphony concert at Raritan Bay Waterfront Park in South Amboy has been moved indoors due to inclement weather. Stay updated on the new location and enjoy the performance safely.

NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY, led by Music Director Xian Zhang, has announced its upcoming 2024-25 season.

The Southbank Centre, its six Resident Orchestras and wider orchestral partners have today announced Classical Music Spring/Summer 2023, an exciting, varied programme of over a hundred events featuring a wealth of established and emerging artists from the UK and internationally. 

Following a sold-out weekend of performances in early March, Nimbus Dance returns to the Nimbus Arts Center stage with ANIMA, featuring a world premiere by celebrated international choreographer Yoshito Sakuraba, and two iconic works by Artistic Director Samuel Pott.

Korean American violinist Jennifer Koh has been awarded the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo for her recording Alone Together, released by Cedille Records and based on her online performance series of the same name created in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the financial hardship it has placed on many in the arts community. The album features 39 world premiere recordings of new works by established and emerging composers. Ms. Koh received the award at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony held in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3. 

WHAT'S STREAMING: CLASSICAL - WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 4

What's Streaming: Classical

Nimbus celebrates its 15th Season at BAM Fisher on March 20th and 21st with a soulful program that includes Artistic Director Samuel Pott's Falling Sky (world premiere 2019, NJPAC) which contrasts humanity's indomitable strength with the catastrophic consequences of climate change.

Nimbus Dance returns to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on November 14 at 7 PM, accompanied by musicians from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) in a collaboration that brings together the two acclaimed New Jersey non-profit arts groups. The evening features Nimbus' world premiere of Falling Sky, choreographed by Artistic Director Samuel Pott.

Violinist Jennifer Koh's newest album, Limitless, based on her groundbreaking 2018 recital project of the same name, bridges the modern divide between composer and instrumentalist as it celebrates artistic collaboration and revisits the grand tradition of composers performing their own music.