Violinist Daniel Rowland at the 2025 Princeton Festival, photo by Princeton Symphony Orchestra staff
(PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Princeton Symphony Orchestra's Princeton Festival hosted thousands of performing arts lovers and hundreds of artists from June 6-21, 2025 with attendance remaining strong through the concluding weekend at Morven Museum & Garden.
Friday night’s Viva Vivaldi! featured violinist Daniel Rowland and cellist Maja Bogdanović in performance with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Possessing the magnetism of a rockstar, Rowland as soloist mesmerized many an attendee with his virtuosic cadenzas.
Daniel Rowland, violin and Maja Bogdanovic, cello perform with PSO musicians. Photo by Princeton Symphony Orchestra staff
Saturday’s ARRIVAL from Sweden: The Music of ABBA concert drew in plenty of ABBA lovers. Irrepressible fans wearing band t-shirts and retro attire including yellow bell-bottoms, pink sunglasses, and silver go-go boots moved, sang, and clapped as ARRIVAL performed some of their favorite ABBA songs including “Mamma Mia,” “Fernando,” “The Winner Takes It All,” and “Dancing Queen.”
Lead ARRIVAL from Sweden singers in ABBA costumes, photo by Princeton Symphony staff
The large performance pavilion and multiple booths on the grounds of Morven Museum & Garden have been removed until next year. In the meantime, patrons can hear beautiful music performed October – May by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in its home at Richardson Auditorium.
The overflowing crowd in the performance pavilion at the Princeton Festival, photo by Princeton Symphony staff.
The Princeton Festival will take place again in June 2026. In the meantime, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 Classical Series, which runs from October-May, offers concerts at Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.
The Princeton Festival is the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s flagship summer program showcasing the performing arts. Founded in 2004, the Princeton Festival quickly established a reputation for artistic excellence and innovative programming. Every year in June, thousands of people from the mid-Atlantic region and beyond come to the Festival to enjoy the quality and variety of its programs. Offerings include opera, musical theater, dance, orchestra and chamber music, and a constantly evolving selection of other genres, including jazz, world music, choral concerts, and country music. The Festival has long-standing partnerships with public libraries and local churches, and promotes life-long learning in the arts through free educational lectures presented to a wide and diverse community.
