Gustavo Dudamel, Princeton University Concerts’ first artist-in-residence and current music and artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will return to the Princeton University campus for the final leg of his residency, from Monday, April 22 through Sunday, April 28.

Events include a performance by and community jam session with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, a showcase by students from the El Sistema-inspired Harmony Program of New York City, conversations with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kip Thorne and Irish public intellectual Fintan O’Toole, a day of shared music-making by almost 300 students from El Sistema-inspired programs across the East Coast, a film screening at the Princeton Garden Theatre, and two concerts in which Dudamel conducts the Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club — one of which is a free (but ticketed) community concert at the Trenton War Memorial.

On Tuesday, April 23 at 7 p.m., members of the Ensemble Berlin will present works by Schubert, Wagner, and a world premiere by Princeton University faculty composer Steven Mackey in a program curated by Dudamel that celebrates the intersection of music and nature. Ensemble Berlin is made up of five players from the Berlin Philharmonic. They are joined by another four players from KonstKnekt, the orchestra’s training program located in Norway. A post-concert discussion extending this topic to the intersection between art (broadly defined) and nature will follow with Dudamel and Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology).

All ticketholders are also invited to hear a showcase performance by students from the El Sistema-inspired Harmony Program of New York City at 6 p.m. Full view tickets are sold out for this evening; obstructed view tickets may be purchased by calling (609) 258-9220, Monday-Friday, 12-5 p.m.

Dudamel will conduct the Princeton University Orchestra and Princeton University Glee Club in a program of works by Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, and Schubert. The program includes a narrated performance of Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring actors from the Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater. The concert on Friday, April 26 in Richardson Auditorium is sold out. However, as part of Princeton University Concerts’ and Dudamel’s shared mission encouraging access to music for all, this program will be repeated in a free but ticketed community concert at the Patriots Theater at the Trenton War Memorial on Saturday, April 27, 4 p.m.

This concert will also include atmospheric video projections by Venezuelan film director Alberto Arvelo. Tickets are at princetonuniversityconcerts.org or (609) 258-9220. In the event of a sellout, any turnback tickets will be released on Monday, April 22 at 12 p.m.

On Monday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m., Dudamel has selected The Liberator, a film by director Alberto Arvelo, to be screened at the Princeton Garden Theatre. The film, featuring original music composed and conducted by Dudamel, recounts Simón Bolívar’s struggle to liberate South America. A Q&A will follow. Tickets are on sale at the Princeton Garden Theatre.

On Wednesday, April 24, at 8 p.m., the community is invited to participate in Princeton University Concerts’ annual Chamber Jam at Richardson Auditorium. This opportunity offers amateur players of orchestral instruments to jam with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, one of the world’s greatest orchestras, reading Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 Pastoral. This is currently at capacity for participants, with a waiting list available online at princetonuniversityconcerts.org or by calling (609) 258-2800. Non-participants are welcome to attend as audience members.

The Princeton University Center for Human Values will host a conversation on Thursday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium, between Dudamel and Ireland intellectual Fintan O’Toole on the subject of “The Artist in Society.” O’Toole is a columnist for The Irish Times and is the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University. The conversation will be chaired by Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and director of the University Center for Human Values. A reception will follow. This event is free and unticketed.

The final event of Dudamel’s residency is Sunday, April 28. In the spirit of an El Sistema “Seminario,” young people from Trenton Music Makers, and their guests from the El Sistema NJ Alliance, plus Play on, Philly! and OrchKids of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, will gather on the Princeton campus for a day of shared music making. The long-standing tradition in the El Sistema movement of bringing students together for a large-scale, communal experience will include Dudamel meeting the children and working with the programs’ instructors, and sharing his philosophy and experience. The seminario will culminate in a public concert with an orchestra of some 300 players and singers, performing at 3 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium.

A complete residency schedule of public events is available and continually updated at princetonuniversityconcerts.org.