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February 2021

Sun 7
February 7, 2021

CANCELED: Performance Featuring Ieva Jokubaviciute, Piano

This performance has been canceled. However, we plan to present some of the works from the concert later this spring via YouTube broadcast. We will update with details. Brahms: String Quartet #3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 67 John Supko: String Quartet, "soleil noir” World Premiere Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor Time and venue T.B.A.

April 2021

Sat 17
April 17, 2021, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Video Premiere: Supko and Franck

The Duke University Department of Music welcomes Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute to its faculty in 2020. Acclaimed by the New York Times as “an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament and persuasive insight,” the Ciompi Quartet are thrilled to collaborate with her on the second program of their season. The Ciompi offer the world premiere […]

Free

September 2021

Sat 11
September 11, 2021, 7:30 pm

Grant Us Peace: Music and Readings Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

Duke Chapel 401 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC

Duke Chapel musicians and the Ciompi Quartet perform compositions with themes of remembrance, peace, and reconciliation by composers such as Joan Tower, Felix Mendelssohn, Shireen Abu-Khader, Ned Rorem, Ola Gjeilo, and George Walker. The musical performances are interwoven with poetic commentary. Please note: Face masks are required on the Duke campus in all indoor and […]

FREE

October 2021

Tue 12
October 12, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Downtown Classics: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Chavez, Revueltas

Horse and Buggy Press - PS118 118 West Parrish St, Durham, NC

Carlos Chavez, String Quartet: No. 1; Silvestre Revueltas, String Quartet No. 1

Wed 13
October 13, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunchtime Classics: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Chavez, Revueltas

Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC

Carlos Chavez, Quartet No. 1, Silvestre Revueltas, Quartet No. 1

Free
Wed 20
October 20, 2021, 7:30 pm

Ciompi at Carol Woods

Carol Woods, 750 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA 750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NC

Program TBA

November 2021

Sat 6
November 6, 2021, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Duke Performances Presents: Metamorphosen

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

A program of works created during the World War II period from three distinct nationalities: Irish-English, Soviet and German. The evening closes with a rare performance of Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings written during the waning months of WWII and widely regarded as an elegy for Germany’s destruction during the war. Elizabeth Maconchy: […]

Free
Tue 30
November 30, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Downtown Classics: Brahms, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67

Horse and Buggy Press - PS118 118 West Parrish St, Durham, NC

Brahms, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67

Free

December 2021

Wed 1
December 1, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunchtime Classics: Brahms, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67

Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC

Brahms, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67

February 2022

Tue 8
February 8, 2022, 6:00 pm

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.

Sat 19
February 19, 2022, 8:00 pm

Duke Performances Presents: Soleil Noir

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

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

March 2022

Sat 26
March 26, 2022, 8:00 pm

Duke Performances Presents: Sunrise

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

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

April 2022

Mon 4
April 4, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunchtime Classics: WILLIAM GRANT STILL & ELIZABETH MACONCHY

Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC

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.

Free
Tue 5
April 5, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Downtown Classics: William Grant Still & Elizabeth Maconchy

Horse and Buggy Press - PS118 118 West Parrish St, Durham, NC

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.

Free

June 2022

Thu 2
June 2, 2022, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Invention and Discovery

Trinty Avenue Presbyterian Chrch 927 West Trinity Ave, Durham, NC

The first concert of the Ciompi Presents 2022 Summer Chamber Music Series is presented by Caroline Stinson, cellist, performing with the Lydian String Quartet. The program, titled Invention and Discovery, includes Andrew Waggoner’s fifth quartet, Invention and Sinfonia by John Harbison, a quintet based on a theme by Shakespeare, and the great Schubert Cello Quintet – three works that open vast, immersive vistas of sound. Enhanced Musical Reality, no goggles needed.

Free
Tue 7
June 7, 2022, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Quartets of Brahms and Lindroth

Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Kirby Horton Hall, Doris Duke Center

The second concert of the Ciompi Presents 2022 Summer Chamber Music Series will feature Jonathan Bagg, violist with the Ciompi String Quartet, performing with Laura Gilbert (flute), Nicholas DiEugenio (violin), Raman Ramakrishnan (cello) and Mimi Solomon (piano). Program: Brahms' Piano Quartet Op. 60, a new flute quartet by Duke faculty composer Scott Lindroth, and works by David Kirkland Garner and Tatiana Nikolaeva.

July 2022

Thu 7
July 7, 2022, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Special Affects

Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Kirby Horton Hall, Doris Duke Center

Presented by Caroline Stinson with Nurit Pacht (violin), Emi Ferguson (flute), Stephanie Vial (cello) and Paolo Bordignon, (harpsichord). Program: Sonatas by Bach, Couperin and Veracini, and Telemann “Paris” Quartet.

August 2022

Wed 3
August 3, 2022, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Three Kinds of Music

Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Kirby Horton Hall, Doris Duke Center

The final concert of the Ciompi Quartet Presents 2022 Summer Chamber Music Series features violinist Eric Pritchard performing with Elizabeth Anderson (cello) and Brandt Fredriksen (piano). The program includes trios of Shostakovich, Bill Robinson, and Dvořák's "Dumky."

September 2022

Fri 30
September 30, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunchtime Classics

Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC

Fanny Hensel: String Quartet in E-Flat Major (1834).

Florence Price: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1935) Selected movements.

Free

October 2022

Mon 3
October 3, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Downtown Classics

NorthStar Church of the Arts 220 West Geer St, Durham, NC

Fanny Hensel: String Quartet in E-Flat Major (1834).

Florence Price: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1935) Selected movements.

Free
Wed 19
October 19, 2022, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Carol Woods

Carol Woods, 750 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA 750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NC

Anthony Kelley: Sidelines Fanny Hensel: String Quartet in E-flat major Florence Price: Second String Quartet

November 2022

Sun 6
November 6, 2022, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Weymouth Concerts

Weymouth Center, Southern Pines, NC 555 E Connecticut Avenue, Southern Pines, NC
Sat 12
November 12, 2022, 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Duke Performances Presents: Lost Songs

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

Florence Price’s unique voice ranges easily through the stylistic territory of late-romantic and mid-20th century classical music, while confidently incorporating ideas and idioms from Black American music.

Free

January 2023

Tue 24
January 24, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

The Portfolio Project

Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

Premier performances of works by Duke graduate composers Ethan Foote and Chris Williams.

Free
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