From Swan to Phoenix:

The Dryden Ensemble Rises!


Save the Dates!

Saturday, December 21 at 3:00 pm

Holiday Benefit


Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 4:00 pm

A 26-course Feast: Baroque Lute Duets

with Daniel Swenberg and Dušan Balarin

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton


Sunday, March 16 at 4:00 pm

En Concert: The Marvelous Mr. Meusel

Daniel Swenberg, Lisa Terry, Webb Wiggins, and guests

offer a glimpse of 18th-century courtly entertainments:

Couperin, Dieupart, Meusel, DeVisée

Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel


Saturday, April 19 at 4:00 pm

Baroque Passion: Music for Holy Week

Sacred arias featuring lute and viola da gamba

from the Baroque Passion repertoire.

Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel



More details forthcoming soon.


We plan to present these concerts to the public free of charge.

In order to make that possible,

please consider a donation to the Dryden Ensemble.


In the coming months there will be opportunities

to sponsor a musician or a concert.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor,

please send an email to: drydenensemble@gmail.com.



Meet Dryden's New Artistic Director,

Lutenist Daniel Swenberg

Daniel Swenberg plays a wide variety of lutes and guitars: baroque, renaissance, classical/romantic--small, medium, and large. He has been a regular with the Dryden Ensemble for over 15 years. Daniel schleps instruments throughout North America and Europe to play with a wide range of ensembles: the Metropolitan Operan, Carmel Bach Festival, Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, on Broadway with Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King, Mr. Jones & the Engines of Destruction, Opera Atelier/Tafelmusik, The New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Catacoustic Ensemble, Handel & Haydn, and many others. He has also accompanied Renee Fleming and Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall.


Daniel is on faculty at Juilliard’s Historical Performance program. He received awards from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (2000) for a study of 18th century chamber music for the lute, and a Fulbright Scholarship (1997) to study in Bremen, Germany. His programing integrates and emphasizes music with the history, sciences, economics, politics, and broader culture of its time—from Weiss to vice.

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