b'FESTIVAL INNOVATORSThe creative team of Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov and Executive Director Marc Uys presents adventuresome programming and new artists to the Princeton Festivals growing audience of performing arts lovers. They are achieving the long-sought goal of centralizing the Festival within Princeton, underscoring Princeton as a cultural destination for live arts.Rossen Milanov, Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov has established himself as a conductor with considerable national and international presence. In addition to leading the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton Festival, Mr. Milanov is the music director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and chief conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in Ljubljana. Noted for his versatility, he is also a welcomed presence in the worlds of opera and ballet. He has collaborated with Komische Oper Berlin (Shostakovichs Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk), Opera Oviedo with the Spanish premiere of Tchaikovskys Mazzepa and Bartoks Bluebeards Castle (awarded best Spanish production for 2015), and Opera Columbus (Verdis La Traviata). He has been seen at New York City Ballet and collaborated with some of the best-known choreographers of our time such as Mats Ek, Benjamin Millepied, and most recently Alexei Ratmansky in the critically acclaimed revival of Swan Lake in Zurich with Zurich Ballet and in Paris with La Scala Ballet. Mr. Milanov is deeply committed to music education, presenting Link Up education projects with Carnegie Hall and the Orchestra of St. Lukes and leading the PSOs annual BRAVO! concerts for thousands of schoolchildren. 6 The Princeton Festival princetonsymphony.org/festival'