Independent Arts News Reporting Photo Recap: Final 2025 Princeton Festival Memories
Reported Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
Pictured Above: Lead ARRIVAL from Sweden singers in ABBA costumes. Photo Credit: PSO Staff
NEWSROOM POST: PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
A selection of photos from the final weekend of this year’s Princeton Festival
Princeton, NJ – The Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s Princeton Festival hosted thousands of performing arts lovers and hundreds of artists from June 6-21, with attendance remaining strong through the concluding weekend at Morven Museum & Garden.
Pictured Above: Two patrons looking forward to the music of Vivaldi on a summer evening. Photo Credit: PSO/Festival Staff.
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.
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.”
Pictured Above: Fab Fans of ABBA. Photo Credit: PSO staff.
The large performance pavilion and multiple booths on the grounds of Morven Museum & Garden are 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. For information, visit www.princetonsymphony.org.
Pictured Above: Festival Crowd Outside the Performance Pavilion. Photo Credit: PSO/Festival Staff.
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.
Pictured Above: ARRIVAL from Sweden at the Princeton Festival. Photo Credit: PSO/Festival Staff.
Find the PSO online at www.princetonsymphony.org; on facebook at www.facebook.com/princetonsymphony; on “X” at x.com/PSOmusic; on Instagram at instagram.com/princetonsymphony; and on flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/princetonsymphony.
