Join PBB at St. David’s in Cranbury for our third installment of Halloween Brass! Some spooky favorites and holiday themed tunes, and of course, a chance for us to show off our favorite costumes! Full program TBA!
Join us at Middlebush Reformed Church for the first of our annual holiday concerts! Always an audience favorite, we’ll feature songs you know and love that capture the essence of the holiday season. Full program TBA.
PBB returns with the second of their holiday concerts, this time at St. David’s Episcopal in Cranbury. Always an audience favorite, we’ll feature songs you know and love that capture the essence of the holiday season! Full program TBA!
PBB Returns to Princeton’s wonderful Richardson Auditorium alongside our friend Eastern Wind Symphony in a shared holiday program that promises to be a great afternoon of music in an amazing space! Time and program TBA.
Join PBB for the first step in our competition preparation, as we head to Rowan University for a performance as well as coachings with some of the world’s greatest brass band musicians! Schedule TBA!
PBB is back at St. David’s with one last chance to hear us before we head off to compete in the North American Brass Band Championships! We’ll be featuring Jan van der Roost’s The Lost Circle (our test piece) as well as our Choice piece! We’ll also be joined by the Princeton Youth Brass Band, under the direction of Max Morden!
Support PBB as they head to the North American Brass Band Championships! We’ll once again be competing the the Championship section, and look forward to taking the stage in Fort Wayne’s incredible Embassy Theater! Livestreaming is available, and we will of course share it when it becomes available!
Join us at Middlebush for our spring concert, this promises to be a great afternoon of music making! Also featuring a performance by the Princeton Youth Brass Band under the direction of Max Morden!
Join PBB as we celebrate Pride Month in concert at the East Brunswick Community Arts Center! Time TBA
Join PBB on the road as we once again take the stage at Gettysburg, as part of the Gettysburg Brass Band Festival!
Join PBB as we kick off our season in a new way! You’ll hear your favorite PBB musicians in a program of chamber music highlighting the individual sounds of each section, as well as mixed ensembles! This promises to be a wonderful afternoon of music at Middlebush Reformed Church, and your donations also benefit a wonderful cause, HOME of Somerset County.
HOME of Somerset County empowers at-risk families to achieve and maintain independence through strength-based case management services. Partnering with a network of religious congregations, government, business and community organizations, HOME: Provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, comprehensive case management and counseling while embracing the diversity and strengths of all individuals. To learn more, visit their website: https://www.homescnj.org/
Join the Princeton Brass Band as we go ‘on the road’ and return to the Gettysburg Brass Band festival! This multi-day festival brings together some of the top performing brass bands from throughout the region including our friends at Atlantic Brass Band and Chesapeake Brass Band among many others. You can find more info about GBBF here!
The Princeton Brass Band is excited to present our Sounds of Summer program, featuring some classic band charts, film and radio hits, and other fun pieces to get you in the summer spirit. We'll also be featuring a set by the Princeton Youth Brass Band! Admission is FREE but any donations, which help us cover the costs needed to execute our mission, are encouraged and appreciated.
Grab your sunscreen and your sunglasses, and get ready to embrace the summer vibes with us!
If you feel like going on the road with your favorite brass band, you can head to Fort Wayne, Indiana to support the Princeton Brass Band as we perform Thierry Deleruyelle’s Crazy Twenties, in addition to our ‘Own Choice’ selection at 2025’s North American Brass Band Association (NABBA) championship. Following our 2023 success winning the first section of the competition, the band will once again be competing in the top level Championship section. Come hear us in person, or be sure to tune in to the livestream (link to follow when available!)
Join Princeton Brass Band before we head to compete at the North American Brass Band championships in Fort Wayne, IN! We’ll be showcasing our two works for the competition, Thierry Deleruyelle’s Crazy Twenties as well as our ‘Own Choice’ selection! We’ll also be joined by the Princeton Youth band under the direction of Max Morden! Be sure to join us for this wonderful afternoon of music and support two of your favorite brass bands!
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! More specific information about our performance time will follow! For more information on the festival, head to: https://www.atlanticbrassband.net/mabbf
The third and final performance of the holiday season, our ‘Home for the Holidays’ concert, will feature a homecoming of sorts for our guest soloist, former PBB MD and solo euphonium player and current solo euphonium of the New York Staff Band, Aaron VanderWeele! This concert will also bring the band ‘home’ to Princeton, taking place at the gorgeous Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall at Princeton University.
To purchase tickets, click the link here or scan the QR code below or on the event flyer!
Our second holiday concert of the season, Holiday Brass II, takes place on Saturday, December 14th at St. David's Episcopal Church in Cranbury. This event will feature a variety of holiday classics, including duets and solos from members of the band, and an arrangement of a holiday classic for brass band by one of our members!
Admission is free and all are welcome, but donations are encouraged and always appreciated. There will also be other opportunities to support the band, with merchandise and holiday goodies for sale perfect for a PBB fan’s wish list.
Check your list, then check it twice, and make sure you can join us- that'll surely keep you off the 'naughty list'!
Our first concert of the holiday season, Holiday Brass I, takes place on Sunday, December 8th at 3PM at Middlebush Reformed Church in Somerset, NJ. This event will feature a variety of holiday classics, duets and solos from members of the band, and the premiere of a brand new arrangement for brass band by one of our members!
Admission is free and all are welcome, but donations are encouraged and always appreciated. There will also be other opportunities to support the band, with merchandise and holiday goodies for sale perfect for a PBB fan’s wish list.
Don’t miss this opportunity to watch PBB “sleigh” your holiday favorites- “yule” surely regret it !
Your Spooky Season Soundtrack is here
PBB is happy to share that our second annual installment of Halloween Brass, a concert to celebrate the exciting themes of dressing up and celebrating the Halloween season, will take place on Sunday, October 27th at 3PM at Simpson United Methodist Church in Old Bridge, NJ. Admission is FREE, and in the “trick or treat” spirit, we’ll have treats for our fans that choose to attend in costume!
Stay tuned for more information and teasers from our program!
A Spooky Scary Skeleton shout-out to Stephen Bockius for the photo for this flyer- though, rest assured, no brass banders were harmed in the making of this concert .
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FIRST CONCERT OF THE SEASON!
Join PBB as we welcome in a new season with our new MD, Dr. Todd Nichols, and a selection of old classics and newer arrangements designed to showcase the variety and excitement of our repertoire. Admission is FREE, though donations are encouraged and appreciated.
Stay tuned for more details about the program, and mark your calendars for the 29th! We’re dancing with excitement and hope you are too .
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Please join us in supporting the Princeton Youth Brass Band in their spring concert! These kids have been working hard to prepare their wonderful program, consisting of works by Malcolm Arnold, Paul Lovatt-Cooper, Paul McCartney and More!
The Princeton Brass Band are very excited to perform for the first time at the Gettysburg Brass Band Festival in a little under a month! This multi-day festival brings together some of the top performing brass bands from throughout the region including our friends at Atlantic Brass Band and Chesapeake Brass Band among many others. You can find more info about GBBF here!
Join us on Mother’s Day, May 12th at Middlebush Reformed 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
