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Join Princeton Pro Musica and explore the best that choral music has to offer.
Our performances are a rare chance to hear 100 voices—joined by
full orchestra and top-notch vocal soloists—bringing to life choral music from across the centuries.
Artistic Director Ryan James Brandau shares some thoughts and insights about what makes CODEBREAKER such a very special piece of music, and why we're so keen to share it with our audience.
In advance of our May 18th performance of Codebreaker, we are pleased to have lined up a series of events to help immerse you in the story of Alan Turing, not only as on of the most brilliant mathematical minds of his time, but as a human being. Click through to see what's in store!
On Sunday, May 18, we will close our 2024-2025 season with Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story by British composer James McCarthy. You won't want to miss this stirring and captivating work, which remembers the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the last century.
In the December 11, 2024 edition of Town Topics, columnist Jean Stratton speaks with marketing manager Kenny Litvack about the past, present, and future of Princeton Pro Musica.
We are thrilled to announce a new season of outstanding choral works ranging from Haydn's ebullient The Creation to a new and compelling work by James McCarthy called Codebreaker: the Alan Turing Story. Click through for info and tickets!
Are you looking for a place to sing? Do you enjoy making choral music at a high level of quality? We'd love to hear you!
PPM typically holds auditions for both volunteer and professional choristers of all voice parts in the spring and summer months, but we will sometimes hear new singers during the season if openings become available. Fill out our application form and we'll be in touch with more information!
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As we prepare for our May 18th performance of CODEBREAKER: The Alan Turing Story, we are excited to welcome Ryan Segura, the co-founder of the New Hope/Lambertville LGBTQ Book Club, who will host of a free online talk based on his reading of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: ALAN TURING AND THE INVENTION OF THE COMPUTER, the 2017 biography by David Leavitt.![]()
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A self-described bookworm, Ryan holds degrees in English, Comparative Literature, and English Education from James Madison University, the University of Connecticut, and New York University, respectively.![]()
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Come learn about--or expand your understanding of--Alan Turing and enhance your concert experience. (Even if you're too far away to join us on May 18, join us on May 5 for this educational experience!)![]()
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Artistic Director Ryan James Brandau shares his thoughts and insights about James McCarthy's CODEBREAKER: THE ALAN TURING STORY, which Princeton Pro Musica will perform on May 18th — the New Jersey premiere!![]()
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Enjoy this deep dive into a very special piece of music that you won't want to miss.![]()
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Tickets ➡ tinyurl.com/ppmtix
📽SPECIAL MOVIE SCREENING!📽![]()
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Please join us on Monday, April 28 at the Princeton Public Library at 6:30 p.m. for a special screening of the 2014 film "The Imitation Game," starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing.![]()
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This special event is free and open to the public, and serves as one of a handful of community events leading up to Princeton Pro Musica's performance of CODEBREAKER: The Alan Turing Story. (For more information: tinyurl.com/turingevents)![]()
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Come see this dramatic depiction of the life of the world-changing mathematician, often called the father of computer science. Then GET YOUR TICKETS for our May 18th performance to hear what the composer calls "a portrait of a living, breathing human being.”![]()
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April 28 ➡ FREE!![]()
Tickets for May 18 ➡ tinyurl.com/ppmtix
Princeton Pro Musica alto Dee Dee Miles makes her debut appearance as an author for the Chorus Connection blog, and we’re all cheering for her! Great thoughts on how to be a star member of an adult chorus. It’s much more than “show up and sing!”
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In the lead-up to our May 18th performance of CODEBREAKER: THE ALAN TURING STORY, Princeton Pro Musica is excited to announce a handful of events to help you learn more about Turing, his life, his work, and his connection to Princeton. We hope you'll join us for these events—especially the performance itself!![]()
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Click the link in the comments for more details!![]()
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CW: CODEBREAKER includes references to a death by suicide and the illness and death of a young person. If you or a loved one is in need of crisis support, help is available. In the U.S. dial 988 nationwide to be connected to the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Artistic Director Ryan James Brandau invites you to our May 18th performance of James McCarthy's CODEBREAKER: THE ALAN TURING STORY.![]()
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More than just one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Alan Turing was a human being who lived and loved.![]()
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He came of age in a time of intolerance, and even his world-saving work as a codebreaker couldn't protect him from prosecution from the British government for being an openly gay man. CODEBREAKER is, according to the composer, "a portrait of a living, breathing human being and not the musical equivalent of a marble monument to a Great Hero."![]()
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CW: CODEBREAKER includes references to a death by suicide and the illness and death of a young person. If you or a loved one is in need of crisis support, help is available. In the U.S. dial 988 nationwide to be connected to the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
On May 18, 2025, at 4 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton Pro Musica will perform CODEBREAKER: the Alan Turing Story.![]()
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Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician whose work in breaking German ciphers during World War II helped turn the tide of the war to the Allies' advantage. Turing was later convicted of "gross indecency" by the British government when it was discovered he was gay. In 1954, Turing died by suicide, and it wasn't until 2009 that Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a posthumous apology to Turing. In 2014, Queen Elizabeth II issued an official pardon, overturning his 1952 conviction-- only the fourth royal pardon issued since the end of World War II.![]()
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Princeton Pro Musica is proud to bring Turing's story and memory to life on the very campus where he earned his PhD in mathematics in 1938, and we hope you'll join us to hear it.![]()
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For tickets ➡️ tinyurl.com/ppmtix
WOW!! Yesterday's CARMINA BURANA was a hit! Thank you to the incredRoxey Ballet Companympany for being stalwart collaborators and stunning dancers! ThankHannah Penznernzner (soprano), Alex Guerrero (tenor), and Dominic Inferrera (baritone) for their tremendous vocal solos! Thanks to our wonderful orchestra for being our melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic underpinning. The way you all joined forces with the PPM chorus made for an event we won't soon forget.![]()
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And thank you to YOU, our audience! If you enjoyed yourselves even half as much as we did, then we know you had a blast! Please provide your feedback through a brief audience survey--find it in the comments below!
Programs made possible in part by funds from Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts – Department of State – a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and The New Jersey Cultural Trust.
