Events

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Special Fall Event, Nov 16, 2025

FAS presented Metropolitan Opera tenor, Paul Appleby, and our own Board member, pianist Martin Néron, in a benefit concert at the Smith House of Princeton Landing, on Sunday afternoon, November 16, 2025.

Paul and Martin performed an inspiring, entertaining, and enriching concert of American music for voice and piano. Thankfully, an overflowing crowd received this outstanding performance with enthusiastic applause.

We are grateful to Paul, Martin, and all in attendance for the gifts of presence and artistry.

Special thanks to Sandy Stern for photographs.

EASY BREEZY SUNDAY 2025

The annual FAS Labor Day event was a huge success, on August 31, 2025. Kerrigan Bigelow and Amber Scherer, our gifted 2025 FAS Fellows, were joined by other dynamic artists, Greg Feldmann, Evan Katsefes, Alexandra Henderson, Laura Soto-Bayomi, and FAS President Alta Malberg, with FAS Board member, distinguished pianist Martin Néron. If you were not with us for this year’s “back-yard concert and picnic,” be sure to plan on Sunday of Labor Day weekend 2026. We would love to see you then! Meanwhile, enjoy these pics from the recent event.

Kerrigan Bigelow and Amber Scherer presented their final concert as 2025 FAS Fellows on September 6th at the Juilliard School.

The duo presented works about women who have been written away by history, in the words of Ophelia, Bilitis, and Camille Claudel. This program was also a preview of their production with City Lyric Opera - The Past Cannot Be Cured - a dramatic retelling of history’s forgotten women.

FAS presented the superb soprano/piano duo of Alexandra Henderson and Sepehr Davallou in a fascinating concert at the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University on April 6, 2025.

On Saturday, March 22, 2025, we presented Kerrigan Bigelow and Amber Scherer in concert at our annual fund-raising gala in Princeton. They gave us a thoroughly engaging and marvelous program of well-chosen music for voice and piano, also for solo piano.

Click here to see a few snapshots from this gala, generously hosted by our great friend, Judith Brodsky. We are also grateful for the support of our many other friends who so enjoyed the event along with the FAS board.

On Sunday, February 2, 2025, 2:00pm, we were pleased to present Kerrigan Bigelow and Amber Scherer in concert at the Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. The repertoire centered around Hope, with currently-exhibited art in the Zimmerli imaginatively referenced in the concert.

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We were pleased to help fund Sara LeMesh and Allegra Chapman, our 2024 Fellows, in recital at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, on August 9 and 10, 2024. You will find information on those programs here.

EASY BREEZY AFTERNOON

Saturday, August 31, 2024, 3:30pm - the annual FAS Labor Day Weekend Concert was sold out. We look forward to seeing you at future FAS events!

April 7, 2024, 2:30pm - Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, a concert by our brilliant 2024 Fellows, Sara LeMesh and Allegra Chapman. This program featured rich and rare music of the Jewish Diaspora.

April 14, 2024, 2:30pm - Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Soprano Maria Brea, tenor César Parreño, and pianist Martin Néron performed contemporary songs and song cycles in Spanish and Portuguese.