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  • “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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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.

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Looking for inspiration? This year, we found it at KIDZNOTES!

This New Year, as the Ciompi Quartet says THANK YOU! … for your support, your ears and your trust.

We want to spotlight the amazing work that KidzNotes, under executive director Shana Tucker, is doing to make music a catalyst for social change in Durham.

The month of November brought Advanced Chamber Music Students in Meeting the World Through Chamber Music to KidzNotes at Fayetteville Street Elementary School in Durham. We all came away inspired!

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