Join us on Mother’s Day, May 12th at Middlebush Reofrmed Church for a wonderful afternoon of brass band favorites: Everything from Bizet to Walton! Hear our superb soloists from within the band and come out to support our youth brass band, who will open the show for us! Admission is free and open to all!
Please join us for our NABBA send off concert! We will be performing the two works that we will be competing with in April, including Oliver Waespi’s brilliant Other Lives, based on music from Schubert’s Der Doppelganger. This concert is free and open to all, donations gratefully accepted!
Come catch PBB as we begin our competition season with a performance at the Mid Atlantic Brass Band festival! We’ll be sharing the weekend with 8 other fabulous brass bands from the region, in addition to a stellar lineup of guest artists!
The Princeton Brass Band returns to Richardson Auditorium for it’s annual holiday show. We are excited to feature David Krauss, Principal Trumpet of The Metropolitan opera as our guest soloist this year. Closing out a successful 2023 season that saw the band win the First Section of the North American Brass Band Championships, the Princeton Brass Band thrills audiences with riveting and emotional music written for the British-style brass band. Come hear holiday favorites and moving solos played by this amazing ensemble of 30 brass and percussion players. Get your tickets HERE
Come hear the Princeton Brass Band at the wonderful Salvation Army Montclair, in Montclair NJ. Our program features familiar melodies and a brass band take on some classic carols!
An afternoon of haunting music for brass band for the whole family: including Bach’s famous Tocatta and Fugue in D minor, music from Harry Potter and other John Williams movie favorites!
Join us as we celebrate our First place finish in the first section of this year’s North American Brass Band Championships! We’ll have an afternoon of great music, including a chance to hear our winning own-choice performance of Sparke’s Variations on an Enigma one last time! Afterwards, say hello to the band and take some photos of the banner and trophy!
Join the Princeton Youth Brass Band for their final performance of the season at Middlebush Reformed Church! These students have been working hard to put together a program full of great music. We hope to see you there!
We are excited to announce our next program, the last before we leave for NABBA! This will be an afternoon full of fireworks for the band, as we play our two selections for the championships as well as some solos and more standard works for band. You really REALLY will not want to miss this!
As many of you may or may not know, this will be the band's first time back at NABBA for several years. As we have discovered, getting 30 people to Alabama for a weekend is quite an expense! If you are planning on attending our show, all ticket and t-shirt sales/ other donations will be helping us to offset our travel costs. If you can't attend but would still like to help out the band- you can donate here: Donate
Our sincere thanks, and we hope to see you on the 16th!
PBB goes on the road, part 1! We are very excited to be returning to the Mid-Atlantic Brass Band festival in 2023. This is a weekend long celebration of all things brass band; with masterclasses and performances from some of the region’s finest brass bands! For more info: https://www.midatlanticbrassbandfestival.com/
We are delighted to return once more to Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium with our friends The Eastern Wind Symphony. Please join us for an afternoon of holiday favorites! Ticketing information and link below.
ONLINE ticket sales are available here. To purchase tickets, type “Winter Wonderland” in the Serach Events box at the top of the page. ALL tickets are General Admission.
Safety Requirements:
MASKS: For the health of our entire community of music lovers, masks at our performances are strongly encouraged.
VACCINATIONS: As per Princeton University COVID-19 policies, all campus visitors must be either fully vaccinated, have recently received and prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit), or agree to wear a face covering when indoors and around others.
PLEASE NOTE: The Richardson box office is doing away with Will Call. Therefore, all ticket sales will be handled through the Princeton Web site, available at the link above. At completion of the transaction you will be able to print the tickets to bring with you to the venue. Ticket sales will also be available starting at 1pm prior to the concert in the lobby of Richardson Auditorium, but we strongly encourage our patrons to purchase the ticket ahead of time so you aren’t stuck in line the day of the concert.
Join us for an afternoon of great transcriptions for brass band, featuring some of our stellar soloists!
General Admission $20, Students under 18 free
Join us at Middlebush Reformed Church for our next show. PBB will kick off the first half with some brass band classics, including Eric Ball’s Journey into Freedom. On the second half, we’ll be joined by the musicians of our Youth Band for a side by side program. In addition, we will be featuring the winner of our first Youth Solo Competition: Ananth Raman, playing Aritunian’s fantastic trumpet concerto.
Please join us on May 1st in the beautiful sanctuary of St. Joseph’s Church in Maplewood for an afternoon of great music. The highlight of the program is Eric Ball’s wonderful ‘Journey into Freedom’, as well as soloists from the band and some movie favorites for an audience of all ages!
Tickets available at the door: $20 for adults, under 18 admitted free.
The Princeton Brass Band is proud to partner with our dear friends, Imperial Brass for a joint program at Imperial Music Center. Each band will perform its own selections, and the two bands will present a massed band program to close out the afternoon. Get Tickets
Snow Date: March 6th
Join us at Imperial Music center for an afternoon of music! Featuring the music of John Williams and Philip Sparke’s incredible test piece, Year of the Dragon!
Join PBB for a spectacular holiday concert featuring the New York Staff Band at 7pm on December 12th! We will be sharing the stage of the wonderful Brook Arts Center in Bound Brook, NJ.
Tickets available at the door or at Brook Arts Center Events
We hope you join us for our fall concert at the Imperial Music Center in South River, NJ. Enjoy some of your favorite movie themes, jazz standards and featured soloists from within the band.
We are so thrilled to be back making music together again. Please join us for a wonderful afternoon of brass band classics, movie favorites and more! Free Admission.
Feel like traveling to support your favorite brass band? Then join us in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Princeton Brass Band 10 piece makes its competition debut performing Holst’s Moorside Suite. In addition to the 10 piece competition, several members of the band will be competing throughout the weekend in the various solo competition divisions.
As a precautionary measure amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the Princeton Brass Band will be postponing the concert originally scheduled for Sunday, March 22. We apologize for the inconvenience to those planning on joining us, and we share in your disappointment at having to make this announcement; but we recognize that the health of our musical community comes first. That includes us as a band, you as our audience members, and the community at large.
As soon as we find a new date, we will update our events and website accordingly. We thank you for your understanding, and wish everyone good health as we continue to navigate this situation together.
The Princeton Brass Band are delighted return to Richardson Auditorium for a program of holiday favorites. Once again we are joined by soloists Tom Hutchinson and Ailsa Russell, Principal cornet and Solo horn of the world-renowned Cory Band.
The first of our annual holiday programs for the community at Meadow Lakes. Join us for holiday selections as well as our New Year’s tribute!
