A Message from President Erica T. Appel

Dear PPM Friends and Supporters,

As we come to the close of our 2024–2025 season, I am full of gratitude for your continued support of Princeton Pro Musica.

In a year where we lost a major source of funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, our generous donors stepped in to fill the gap so that we could continue to provide the highest quality choral programming in central New Jersey. Thanks to your generous support, we were able to match a $30,000 pledge by anonymous donors!

We have had another wonderful and successful season. After performing Haydn’s The Creation in the fall, a sell-out holiday program A Feast of Carols in December, and a spectacular early spring collaboration with Roxey Ballet and the TCNJ Treble Chorus in Orff’s Carmina Burana, we finished our season in May with the beautiful and heartbreaking modern oratorio, Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story.

You, our audience, make our success possible and motivate us to achieve new levels of excellence in our mission to elevate the human story through choral music.

We know from your feedback that you appreciate the high quality of our performances and are deeply engaged in the music during our concerts. Here are just a few recent comments we have received:

“We have never attended a PPM performance that was less than superb.”

“The soloists were all terrific and the choir was on fire.”

“A fantastic presentation that held the audience in thrall to the beauty of the music … I left the auditorium in an elated state and felt all was right with the world.”

Princeton Pro Musica is a unique chorus. We are proud to be central New Jersey’s only symphonic chorus and orchestra, striving for the highest musical standards, performing both familiar choral masterworks and intellectually and musically groundbreaking compositions. We offer a depth of programming and quality of performance usually found only in larger metropolitan areas like New York City and Philadelphia.

But in order to continue to provide this level of programming, we need your support.

We invite you to make a donation by June 30 that will help us continue making the excellent and inspiring choral music you love.

Here’s a sneak preview of what you have to look forward to from Princeton Pro Musica. Our 2025–2026 season is shaping up to include a concert in October entitled Bachtoberfest!, featuring works by J. S. Bach, and of course A Feast of Carols, our regularly-sold-out program of seasonal favorites in December.

Our two Spring 2026 concerts will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding with American works both old and new by a diverse set of composers, including Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, Julia Wolfe’s Letter from Abigail, and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.

In order to move ahead with our next season and beyond, we need your help. The rising costs of securing performance venues, hiring excellent soloists, and engaging a professional orchestra are not covered by ticket sales alone.

Please consider a generous donation to Princeton Pro Musica, either a one-time gift or a gift spread over monthly contributions. Because we cannot do it without you!

Supporting Princeton Pro Musica is easy. Click here to make your contribution before June 30!

With my deepest gratitude,

Erica T. Appel
President, Board of Trustees