June 2019
Summer Solstice: Stretch, Tap, Pull, Resonate
The first in the 2019 Ciompi Quartet Presents series at the Duke Gardens. Summer Solstice: Stretch, Tap, Pull, Resonate An enchantment of music and poetry that spans four centuries, for violin, viola, cello, frame drums and narrator. Caroline Stinson (cello) with Duo Jalal (Kathryn Lockwood, viola and Yousif Sheronick, frame drums); Andrew Waggoner, violin and narration. Single tickets are $25 General Public; $20 Non-Duke Students/Duke Employees; $10 Youth/Duke students. Subscriptions are $60. Purchase subscription tickets beginning May 14, single ticets…
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The Color of There Seen from Here
Jonathan Bagg (viola) with colleagues Laura Gilbert (flute), Gabriela Diaz (violin), Robert Burkhart (cello) and Molly Morkoski (piano) offer a brand new mixed-media piece by composer Eric Moe and visual artist Barbara Weissberger. Designed as a succession of video tableaux that are synchronized with the performance, this new commission will be complemented by Faure’s Piano Quartet, Op. 45, and Mario Davidovsky’s Quartetto for flute and strings. Single tickets are $25 General Public; $20 Non-Duke Students/Duke Employees; $10 Youth/Duke students.…
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Eric Pritchard and James Tocco in Recital
Distinguished American pianist, James Tocco returns to Duke University to perform with Eric Pritchard, First
Violinist with the Ciompi Quartet in a program featuring Beethoven’s Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 12 #; Ravel’s Sonata #2, and Richard Strauss’ Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 18.
October 2019
Trois Modernes
Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor. Op. 10 Toru Takemitsu: String Quartet “Landscape” 1960 Stravinsky: Concertino for String Quartet 1920 Tickets: $15, Free to all Students General Admission Seating
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Chamber Music Raleigh
Program TBA
Find out more »Of the Cloth: Featuring The Lark Quartet & Laura Sewell, Cello
Tickets: $25, $10 All Students General Admission Seating In its first of two concerts on Duke Performances’ season, the Ciompi Quartet presents a collaboration with the celebrated Lark Quartet. Following cellist Caroline Stinson’s departure from the Lark to join the Ciompi in 2018, the Lark Quartet announced that 2019 would be its final season; over 34 years, the all-female Lark was particularly esteemed for commissioning over thirty works by some of the greatest American composers. The concert opens with Danish…
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MYTH-MAKERS: Featuring Rachel Yonan, viola and Alex Exerman, cello
Strauss: Sextet from “Capriccio" Shulamit Ran: String Sextet "Lyre of Orpheus” 2009 Faure: String Quartet E minor Op. 121 Tickets: $25, Free to all Students General Admission Seating
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ALBEMARLE, NC: SUNDAYS@THREE
Program TBA
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Songs, Games, and Messages: featuring Molly Morkoski, Piano
Presented by Duke Performances Tickets: $25, $10 All Students General Admission Seating Pianist Molly Morkoski joins the Ciompi Quartet for a program that spans five centuries. An arrangement of John Dowland songs for piano quintet opens the program, presenting a fresh take on vocal works by the beloved Elizabethan composer. Morkoski joins for another quintet, Weinberg’s opus 18; Weinberg, a Polish war refugee who established his career in Soviet Russia, looks backward to exemplars of genre and form in this…
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