Since its founding in 1965, the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University has delighted audiences and impressed critics around the world. All its members are professors at Duke, where they teach instrumental lessons, coordinate and coach chamber music, and perform across campus in concert halls, libraries, dormitories and classrooms. In a career that spans five continents and includes many hundreds of concerts, the Ciompi Quartet has developed a reputation for performances of real intelligence and musical sophistication, with a warm, unified sound that allows each player’s individual voice to emerge.
“From beginning to end the playing sounded intelligent and sure, sofened at the edges with a full and mellow tone.”
The New York Times
Their music, full of passion, yet with pure and beautiful tone color, intoxicated the listener.
Wen Hui, Shanghai
The whole evening was a work of art, of technical brilliance, of careful, sensitive ensemble playing.
Osnabrucker Zeitung, Germany
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Ciompi Presents 2022 Summer Chamber Music Series
DURHAM, NC – Duke Gardens has always been the setting for this delightful series, however this summer the series will open with a free concert at Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church presented by Caroline Stinson, performing with the Lydian String Quartet. However, the three remaining concerts will be held at Duke Gardens.
Subscriptions are $60. Purchase subscription tickets beginning May 24. Single tickets are $25 General Public; $20 Non-Duke Students/Duke Employees; $10 Youth/Duke students.
Tickets and subscriptions may be purchased online via ticket.duke.edu.
Tickets are also available at the Duke University Box Office, Bryan Center, Upper Level. The box office is open weekdays 11am-6pm, or you may call 919-684-4444. The box office accepts cash, check, credit cards and Duke Card FLEX payments.
All Concerts begin at 7:00pm.
Note: The June 2 concert is a FREE concert and will be presented at Trinity Ave Presbyterian Church, 927 West Trinity Ave, Durham, NC. You can reserve tickets online. A non-perishable food item for the Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church’s food pantry is requested
The three remaining concerts will be presented at Kirby Horton Hall in the Doris Duke Center at Sarah P. Duke Gardens, 420 Anderson St, Durham, NC 27708. Call 919-684-3698 for directions.
Ciompi Presents is sponsored by the Department of Music, Sarah P. Duke Gardens and the Ciompi Quartet Fund.
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Performances
Jul
07
Special Affects
July 7, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Aug
03
Three Kinds of Music
August 3, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm