Mandolinist Chris Thile is set to make his Princeton University Concerts debut in October.
The concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall. Tickets are currently on sale online.
Thile is a former member of the trio Nickel Creek and current member of the Bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers. He has won multiple Grammy Awards and was a 2012 recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
He recently teamed up with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bassist Edgar Meyer and fiddle player Stuart Duncan on the Grammy-winning recording Goat Rodeo Sessionsand his music was included on the soundtrack to The Hunger Games.
Thile is set to release an album of Bach Sonatas and Partitas transcribed for mandolin on Nonesuch Records in August.
The concert’s program is set to include transcriptions from Thile’s new CD as well as his own compositions and other contemporary works.
Tickets are $35 for general public and $10 for students.
Single tickets for all concerts of the 2013-14 season are set to be available online, by phone and at the Frist Campus Center Box Office starting Sept. 3.
More information is online at princetonuniversityconcerts.org.
