MILESTONE FOR A MAESTRO: Princeton Symphony Orchestra conductor Rossen Milanov celebrates his 60th birthday in the coming concert season. (Photo courtesy of Princeton Symphony Orchestra)

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) box office is now open for the 2024-25 season, which celebrates Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov’s 60th birthday. Guest artists will include violinists Leila Josefowicz and Aubree Oliverson, pianist Orli Shaham, Princeton University’s Performers-in-Residence So Percussion, and pianist Natasha Paremski.

Milanov has programmed favorite works including concertos by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al. Beethoven’s Triple Concerto will feature concertmaster Basia Danilow and principal cellist Alistair MacRae with pianist Steven Beck.

In addition to Viet Cuong, other living composers whose works will be featured this season include Gemma Peacocke, Michael Abels, and Carlos Simon. There are also symphonies by Brahms, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, and Beethoven; an all-Mozart concert conducted by Gérard Korsten, plus choral music by Brahms and Tchaikovsky performed by Rider University’s Westminster Symphonic Choir.

Milanov regularly collaborates with artists of the orchestral world, and leads The Princeton Festival. He is also the music director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and chief conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in Ljubljana. He has conducted operas presented by Komische Oper Berlin and Opera Columbus, as well as the Spanish premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Mazzepa and Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle with Opera Oviedo (awarded best Spanish production for 2015). He has conducted over 200 concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra and performances with the New York City Ballet, Zurich Ballet, and La Scala Ballet in Paris. He presents education projects with Carnegie Hall and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and leads the PSO’s BRAVO! concerts for school children. He is a 2011 ASCAP award winner and a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School.

All performances take place on select Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m., at Richardson Auditorium on Princeton University’s campus. Milanov conducts all but the all-Mozart program in February and this season’s Holiday POPS! concert featuring Andrea Ross, which will be conducted by John Devlin.

Visit princetonsymphony.org or call (609) 497-0020.