The Ciompi Quartet

Duke University

Contemporary American Music

Ciompi Concert Live Streaming From Notre Dame

Tue Jan 30, 2024, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
LaBar Recital Hall (View on map )

Ciompi travels to Indiana for a performance at The University of Notre Dame’s LaBar Recital Hall. The concert features a richly varied program of masterpieces for strings. American Shelley Washington’s work draws from her childhood in Missouri and Kansas and synthesizes elements of jazz, rock, and American folk music.

American Composer Shelley Washington and Patrick Yim.
American Composer Shelley Washington
Patrick Yim

Hungarian Bela Bartok’s iconic String Quartet No. 4, a masterclass in composition, explores Hungarian folk music and language, arch form, “night music,” and numerous systems of harmonic organization. To conclude, Notre Dame faculty violinist Patrick Yim joins the Ciompi for Brahms’ triumphant Op. 111.

They are also excited that the concert will be live streamed over YouTube. Click here to watch this concert live.

Masterclass with the Ciompi Quartet
In the lead up to the concert, Ciompi will conduct a masterclass that is open to the public from 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM in the LaBar Recital Hall. The Ciompi Quartet of Duke University coaches Notre Dame Music students in chamber works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms.

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Tuesday. January 30 at 7:00 pm

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The performers gratefully acknowledge the generous support for this performance by The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters.

An American in Shanghai: Forgotten Stories

Featuring Min Xiao-fen, pipa and voice

When cultures mix, music is usually where they find common ground. 1930’s Shanghai put American jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton in contact with Chinese songwriter Li Jin-Hui, resulting in music that blended American jazz with Chinese popular song. The Ciompi Quartet and pipa virtuoso Xiao-Fen Min have commissioned two new works for pipa and string quartet by composers Alan Chan and Andrew Waggoner that explore the sonic possibilities of these disparate musical worlds. Chan’s work re-imagines 30s era songs through a jazz lens, while Waggoner creates a dramatic dialogue between the Min’s virtuoso Pipa and the string quartet. The program includes a quartet by Jewish refugee Wolfgang Fraenkel, who escaped to Shanghai in 1939 and became an influential teacher and musical figure in the life of the city.

  • Andrew Waggoner: Forgotten Stories for String Quartet and Pipa (2024) WORLD PREMIERE – Ciompi Commission
  • Alan Chan: “Catch Me at the Canidrome” for String Quartet and Pipa (2024) WORLD PREMIERE – Ciompi Commission
  • Wolfgang Fraenkel: Music for String Quartet (1949)

This concert is FREE

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