Independent Arts News Reporting Baroque Ensembles and Time for Three to be Presented Weeknights at Princeton Festival Venues
Reported on Wednesday, June 3, 2026.
Pictured Above: Twelfth Night Ensemble. Photo Credit: Mei Stone.
NEWSROOM POST: PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
Week One – The Sebastians and Twelfth Night Ensemble at Trinity Church. Week Two – Time for Three at Morven Museum & Garden.
Princeton, NJ — Between the 2026 Princeton Festival’s three performance-packed weekends at Morven Museum & Garden, exciting Baroque concerts featuring The Sebastians and Twelfth Night Ensemble, and genre-defying music by Time for Three will be presented during the week, on June 9, 11, and 18, respectively.
On Tuesday, June 9 at 7pm, The Sebastians, a New York City-based Baroque ensemble, performs for a fifth consecutive year at the Princeton Festival at nearby Trinity Church. On the program are Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantatas BWV 140 “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” (Sleepers Awake) and BWV 80 “Ein feste Burg is unser Gott” (A Mighty Fortress is Our God), followed by Bach’s Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1067.
Making their Festival debut, the Twelfth Night Ensemble takes the stage at Trinity on Thursday, June 11 at 7pm with a program culminating in Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Leading up to that iconic work are Pietro Locatelli’s Concerto Grosso in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 11, Arcangelo Corelli’s Violin Sonata in D, Op. 5, No. 1, and Francesco Durante’s Concerto in G Minor.
Time for Three performed at the Princeton Festival in its first iteration at Morven Museum & Garden in June 2022, and opened the Festival in 2023. Returning for their third Festival appearance on Thursday, June 18 at 7pm, members Ranaan Meyer (double bass and vocals), Nick Kendall (violin and vocals), and Charles Yang (violin and vocals) perform in the performance pavilion at Morven. Time for Three captivates audiences worldwide with their virtuosic playing and insatiable appetite for creativity that expands typical perceptions of a string trio. For optimal spontaneity with the audience, Time for Three’s program will be announced from the stage.
2026 Princeton Festival tickets for concerts at Morven Museum & Garden and nearby Trinity Church are available by phone at (609) 497-0020 and online at: princetonsymphony.org/festival. Patrons wanting to attend all three weeknight concerts can receive a 10% discount by applying the code Festival10% at checkout.
Pictured Above: The Sebastians. Photo Credit: Nan Melville.
ABOUT THE PRINCETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is a cultural centerpiece of the Princeton community and one of New Jersey’s finest music organizations, a position established through performances of beloved masterworks, innovative music by living composers, and an extensive network of educational programs offered to area students free of charge. Led by Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov, the PSO presents orchestral, pops, and chamber music programs of the highest artistic quality, supported by lectures and related events that supplement the concert experience. Its flagship summer program the Princeton Festival brings an array of performing arts and artists to Princeton during multiple weeks in June. Through PSO BRAVO!, the orchestra produces wide-reaching and impactful education programs in partnership with local schools and arts organizations that culminate in students attending a live orchestral performance. The PSO receives considerable support from the Princeton community and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, regularly garnering NJSCA’s highest honor. Recognition of engaging residencies and concerts has come from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the PSO’s commitment to new music has been acknowledged with an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and a Copland Fund Award. The only independent, professional orchestra to make its home in Princeton, the PSO performs at historic Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.
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