Welcome to our 2024-2025 season!
When
Sunday, October 8, 2023 | 3PM EDT & 6PM EDT
Where
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Tickets
General: $40 | Student: $10 | Princeton University Student: Free through Passport to the Arts.
This is music that paints images in your mind, that fires the imagination... Dreamers’ Circus celebrate more than the colour and vibrancy of Scandinavian music, they celebrate the ability it has to drive inspiration and innovation, and place themselves firmly in the vanguard of that movement."
—Folk Radio
Performances Up Close
About the Event
Part of our Performances Up Close series, audience is seated onstage alongside the musicians in an hour-long program.
“Two Danes and a Swede walked into a pub…no, not the opening line of a joke; rather, the beginning of a musical collaboration that has produced some of the most exciting new music to emanate from Scandinavia,” asserts Folk Radio. One of those Danes is none other than violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen of the Danish String Quartet, appearing on our Concert Classics Series later this fall. With astounding acrobatics on violin, accordion/piano and the cittern (a relative of the mandolin), the young trio performs original, genre-bending compositions that blend vibrant Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic folk traditions with influences from jazz, classical, and pop music spheres—pushing the Nordic sound into an imaginative new realm. “The name Dreamers’ Circus is based on associations,” explains Sørensen. “Think of the vivid colors we associate with childhood memories of the Circus. Remember the magic of entering the tent as a child — the way our senses were engaged. In our music, we always strive to invoke a place of freedom, somewhere for our imagination to play in and a space for dreaming.”
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Musicians
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen Violin/Other Instruments
Ale Carr Cittern/Kannel/Violin/Other instruments
Nikolaj Busk Accordion/Piano/Synthesizers
Part of our Performances Up Close series, audience is seated onstage alongside the musicians in an hour-long program.
“Two Danes and a Swede walked into a pub…no, not the opening line of a joke; rather, the beginning of a musical collaboration that has produced some of the most exciting new music to emanate from Scandinavia,” asserts Folk Radio. One of those Danes is none other than violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen of the Danish String Quartet, appearing on our Concert Classics Series later this fall. With astounding acrobatics on violin, accordion/piano and the cittern (a relative of the mandolin), the young trio performs original, genre-bending compositions that blend vibrant Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic folk traditions with influences from jazz, classical, and pop music spheres—pushing the Nordic sound into an imaginative new realm. “The name Dreamers’ Circus is based on associations,” explains Sørensen. “Think of the vivid colors we associate with childhood memories of the Circus. Remember the magic of entering the tent as a child — the way our senses were engaged. In our music, we always strive to invoke a place of freedom, somewhere for our imagination to play in and a space for dreaming.”
Musicians
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen Violin/Other Instruments
Ale Carr Cittern/Kannel/Violin/Other instruments
Nikolaj Busk Accordion/Piano/Synthesizers
Program
An hour-long program with audience seated on stage featuring original, genre-bending compositions that blend vibrant Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic folk traditions with influences from jazz, classical, and pop music spheres.