Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

John Luther Adams: Above Sunset Pass (2007); Dvorak: Silent Woods; Arranged for string quartet by Andrew Waggoner; A Forest Unfolding (2018): a collaborative work by multiple creators.

George Crumb said that Black Angels “was conceived as a kind of parable on our troubled contemporary world.”

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.

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 […]

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. […]

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: […]

EVENT CANCELED 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 […]

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

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 […]

Featuring Susan Fancher, saxophone Program Arvo Pärt: Fratres Elliott Carter: Two Fragments for String Quartet Scott Lindroth: New Work for Saxophone and String Quartet—World Premiere Dvořák: “American” Quartet in F Major, Op. 96. Buy tickets from Duke Performances The Ciompi Quartet opens this concert with Arvo Pärt's landmark Fratres, an engrossing 1977 piece that seesaws between […]

Free admission. Program Saint-Saëns: String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, op. 153 Marie Jaëll: String Quartet in G Minor Vincent D’Indy, Guillaume Lekeu, and Claude Debussy: Excerpts from string quartets Would Johann Sebastian Bach be known to us, had Mendelssohn not discovered his scores and introduced audiences to his music? Would we know Mahler, […]