Lunchtime Classics: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Chavez, Revueltas
Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesCarlos Chavez, Quartet No. 1, Silvestre Revueltas, Quartet No. 1
Ciompi at Carol Woods
Carol Woods, 750 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA 750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NCProgram TBA
Duke Performances Presents: Metamorphosen
Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University 1336 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesA 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: […]
Downtown Classics: Brahms, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67
Horse and Buggy Press - PS118 118 West Parrish St, Durham, NC, United StatesBrahms, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67
Lunchtime Classics: Brahms, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67
Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesBrahms, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67
Portfolio Project 2021 plus Duke Professor John Supko
Rubenstein Arts Center, von der Heyden Studio Theater 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NCThis 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 StatesAn 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. […]
Duke Performances Presents: Sunrise
Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University 1336 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesThe 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 […]
Lunchtime Classics: WILLIAM GRANT STILL & ELIZABETH MACONCHY
Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesWilliam 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.
Downtown Classics: William Grant Still & Elizabeth Maconchy
Horse and Buggy Press - PS118 118 West Parrish St, Durham, NC, United StatesWilliam 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.
Invention and Discovery
Trinty Avenue Presbyterian Chrch 927 West Trinity Ave, Durham, NC, United StatesThe 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.
Quartets of Brahms and Lindroth
Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Kirby Horton Hall, Doris Duke CenterThe 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.
Special Affects
Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Kirby Horton Hall, Doris Duke CenterPresented 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.
Three Kinds of Music
Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Kirby Horton Hall, Doris Duke CenterThe 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."
Lunchtime Classics
Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesFanny Hensel: String Quartet in E-Flat Major (1834).
Florence Price: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1935) Selected movements.
Downtown Classics
NorthStar Church of the Arts 220 West Geer St, Durham, NC, United StatesFanny Hensel: String Quartet in E-Flat Major (1834).
Florence Price: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1935) Selected movements.
Carol Woods
Carol Woods, 750 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA 750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NCAnthony Kelley: Sidelines Fanny Hensel: String Quartet in E-flat major Florence Price: Second String Quartet
Weymouth Concerts
Weymouth Center, Southern Pines, NC 555 E Connecticut Avenue, Southern Pines, NC, United StatesDuke Performances Presents: Lost Songs
Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University 1336 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesFlorence 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.
The Portfolio Project
Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesPremier performances of works by Duke graduate composers Ethan Foote and Chris Williams.
Downtown Classics
NorthStar Church of the Arts 220 West Geer St, Durham, NC, United StatesBartok: String Quartet #4.
Lunchtime Classics
Goodson Chapel, Duke Universtity 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesBartok: String Quartet #4
Duke Performances Presents: Black Angels
Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University 1336 Campus Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesGeorge Crumb said that Black Angels “was conceived as a kind of parable on our troubled contemporary world.”