The Ciompi Quartet performs at the Xi’an Conservatory of Music in Xi’an. The Program Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz in C Minor, D 703 (1820) Maximiliano Amici (b.1998): “Encounters” for a string quartet (2024) Chen Yi (b. 1953): “At the Kansas City New Year Concert for String Quartet” – III. Blue Dragon Sword Dance (2003) Ludwig Van […]
The Ciompi Quartet holds a masterclass with students of the Xi’an Conservatory of Music in Xi’an.
The Ciompi Quartet has been a vital presence in new music since its founding nearly 60 years ago. A close and fruitful relationship with Duke’s composition faculty, and with many young composers in the Ph.D. program, has produced dozens of new works over the years. This concert brings together four new pieces from the past […]
The first concert of the Ciompi Presents 2025 Summer Chamber Music Series features cellist Caroline Stinson performing with her colleague of ten years in the Lark Quartet, renowned violinist Deborah Buck. She joins for an evening of intimate duets from Baroque to the gems of the early 20th Century.
In 1853, Robert Schumann famously declared Johannes Brahms the composer destined to carry Beethoven’s legacy forward. Four decades later, Brahms endorsed the publication of Alexander Zemlinsky’s Trio, Op. 3 by Simrock in 1896. Just three years later, in 1899, Zemlinsky’s student, Arnold Schoenberg, composed his groundbreaking work, Verklärte Nacht, (Transfigured Night) Op. 4. We trace this remarkable arc of creativity through early piano trios of these three pivotal figures in the German musical tradition.