Building relationships with audiences and creating something, whether it’s a film, a festival or a concert serie, is a passion for me. Here are the current different music events I am the founder and director of.
Princeton Chamber Music Series
http://www.princetonchambermusic.org
Traveling can be fun and an adventure, but when you have done it for as many years as I have, and the travel means performing and being under pressure (which makes it difficult to enjoy the places you are visiting), it is certainly nice to have the concert venue an eight minute drive from your home.
The incredibly beautiful Channing Hall at Princeton Unitarian Church, with its phenomenal accoustics, is the home of Princeton Chamber Music Series, which has been a real success story in its first season. So many people want to come that I have added a 4pm concert.
Right now, we are heading towards the season finale, and I am already planning for next season, incredibly encouraged and energized by all the wonderful folks who came to the concerts so far.
Beethovensafari and Lunds Beethovenfestival
http://www.beethovensafari.com
In beautiful Skåne, Sweden, there are two festivals dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven. The name Beethovensafari is something I came up with now seven summers ago, and it is now one of the main classical events in the Helsingborg region. Five concerts in five different places in summer, most of them outside the city in incredible settings, like Vikens Kyrka:
Lunds Beethovenfestival started in 2023 and had its second opus in 2024, when I managed to get funding to invite two fantastic artists from the US, Katie Liu and Robin Park, who you can hear in the video below from the festival.
Per Tengstrand 