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  • Portfolio Project 2021 plus Duke Professor John Supko

    Rubenstein Arts Center, von der Heyden Studio Theater 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

    This short program features the second (2021-22) round of commissions in the Ciompi Quartet’s “Portfolio Project”. The Quartet performs Works by Duke Graduate Composers Huijuan Ling, Brooks Frederickson, and Dayton Kinney, as well as “Soleil Noir”, the 2020 work by Duke Faculty Composer John Supko.

  • Duke Performances Presents: Soleil Noir

    Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University 1336 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United States

    An exhilarating journey across time, place, and vastly different artistic sensibilities. Duke composer John Supko’s 2020 quartet, commissioned by the Ciompi, receives its first live performance; pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute joins the quartet for a major work by the Soviet composer Miecyslaw Weinberg; and the Quartet revives a favorite piece by mid-century American, William Grant Still. […]

    Free

  • Duke Performances Presents: Sunrise

    Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University 1336 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United States

    The beauty, drama, and heartbreak of real life are woven into this program, which spans 250 years of the string quartet’s history. The Ciompi Quartet’s final Baldwin program this season is animated by the distinctive naturalism of three composers: Haydn, Janacek, and. Christopher Theofanidis. Poet Melissa Studdard and Theofanidis take Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar’s […]

    Free

  • Lunchtime Classics: WILLIAM GRANT STILL & ELIZABETH MACONCHY

    Goodson Chapel, Duke University 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United States

    William Grant Still: Lyric Quartette (1960) Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet #4 (1942) The Ciompi inaugurates two new series of free one-hour concerts featuring major works for string quartet in informal settings. Student ensembles from the Duke Chamber Music Program will be featured on these programs.

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