PROGRAM: Mozart: String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 Schubert:  String Quintet in C Major, D. 956

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, championed by Bruno Walter and Leonard Bernstein, when so many deemed his music unworthy? In this program, the Ciompi Quartet follows in this tradition of…

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 hyperactive flurries and halcyon stretches. They continue with Elliott Carter's Two Fragments for String Quartet, two short sections that test divides between silence and volume,…

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…

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