Piano Master Class The day following his Piano Recital Series performance, Sergei Babayan will lead a piano master class with Duke student musicians in Bone Hall on the lower level ...
ACCUMULATIONS: Exploring the Legacies of Trisha Brown Saturday, October 29, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium, 2001 Campus Drive, Durham Free & open to the public Join ...
Ian Bostridge Book Talk The celebrated English tenor Ian Bostridge will talk about his most recent book, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession (Faber 2014/Knopf 2015). This session will be ...
Chamber Music Master Class The afternoon of their Chamber Arts Series performance, the Belcea Quartet will lead a chamber music master class with Duke student musicians in Baldwin Auditorium. Saturday, October ...
MartyrLoserKing: A Conversation with Saul Williams & Mark Anthony Neal Iconic spoken word artist Saul Williams will speak with Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University, about Williams’ ...
The Dover Quartet shot to prominence after taking first prize at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition. The Chicago Tribune hails their “expert musicianship, razor-sharp ensemble, deep musical feeling, ...
Conrad Tao will read new works for piano by Duke graduate composers Eren Gümrükçüoglu and Sid Richardson. Conrad Tao began his musical career as a wunderkind. As a pre-teenager he appeared as ...
Talking Music: A Conversation with Kassé Mady Diabaté Duke Professor Laurent Dubois, a distinguished historian of the Black Atlantic and author of the recently released book The Banjo: America’s African Instrument, ...
Cellist Paul Watkins of the acclaimed Emerson String Quartet will hold a chamber music master class with Duke student musicians. The Emerson String Quartet have been lauded as “the one indispensible quartet” (Newsday). In their forty-year ...
A Conversation with Wu Man & Jennifer Chang A conversation with Wu Man and Jennifer Chang, Chapel Hill-based gu zheng musician and educator, on Wu Man’s career, featuring a pipa demonstration by Wu Man ...
Talking Music: A Conversation with Edgar Meyer Acclaimed bassist and composer Edgar Meyer, praised by The New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument,” arrives in Durham ...
The Ciompi Quartet conclude their celebration of fifty years in residence at Duke University by welcoming former students back to campus — and to the stage — for a Duke ...
**TWO PUBLIC CONVERSATIONS WITH GROUNDBREAKING HIP-HOP ARTIST TALIB KWELI** TALKING MUSIC: TALIB KWELI & 9TH WONDER GRAMMY-winning producer, DJ, and Duke professor 9th Wonder leads this discussion with groundbreaking Brooklyn-based hip-hop artist ...
In light of impending inclement weather, Duke Performances has cancelled the presentation of Rez Abbasi Invocation feat. Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa on Friday, January 22. We are planning to reschedule ...
HIP-HOP & THE REVOLUTION: A CONVERSATION ON HIP-HOP & GLOBAL ACTIVISM WITH BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR & ANGEL DOZIER Ghanaian-born, Brooklyn-based rapper Blitz the Ambassador will speak with Angel Dozier, director ...
TALKING DANCE: A CONVERSATION WITH KYLE ABRAHAM AND JODEE NIMERICHTER Kyle Abraham, MacArthur Award winner and artistic director of Abraham.In.Motion, will speak with Jodee Nimerichter, Director of the American Dance ...
Artist-in-Residence Events: Fazıl Say • Fazıl Say: Music & Culture in Turkey • Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say speaks with Erdağ Göknar, Director of the Duke Middle East Studies Center, about music ...
Artist-in-Residence Events: Jennifer Koh • Jennifer Koh performs Beethoven Violin Concerto as a featured guest of the Duke Symphony Orchestra • Wednesday, March 2, 8 PM Baldwin Auditorium Free & open ...
In 2010, seven of New York City’s most sought-after and versatile instrumentalists connected over a shared love for Stravinsky’s magnificent L’Histoire du Soldat, and Deviant Septet was born. Scored for ...
The GRAMMY-winning Parker Quartet brings “pinpoint precision and a spectacular sense of urgency” (Boston Globe) to their broad repertoire and multitude of musical collaborations. Recently appointed Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University’s ...
#BLACKMOVEMENTMATTERS: DANCE, HIP-HOP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Rennie Harris, founder and artistic director of hip-hop dance company Rennie Harris Puremovement, chats with Thomas DeFrantz, chair of the Department of African and African American ...
FROM THE ARCHIVES: HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER & WILLIAM GEDNEY M.C. Taylor, leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger, and Jim Findlay, stage director and designer, are joined by photographer and William ...
Over the course of twenty years, the Brentano String Quartet have built a broad discography encompassing the central European canon and new music alike, earning a reputation as one of ...
ANA TIJOUX: HIP-HOP & POLITICS IN CHILE French-Chilean MC Ana Tijoux speaks with David Garcia, Associate Professor of Music at UNC-Chapel Hill, about the politics and realities of contemporary Latin America, including her native Chile, ...
A LIFE IN JAZZ: ABDULLAH IBRAHIM Duke professor and acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey talks with South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim about his wide-ranging career in music. Ibrahim plays with his ensemble Ekaya on ...
A MASTERCLASS WITH CUARTETO CASALS Characterized by “intense focus and a striking unanimity of gesture” (The New York Times), Cuarteto Casals is the first Spanish string quartet to achieve a genuinely international ...
Stanford University ensemble-in-residence St. Lawrence String Quartet return to Duke Performances with their trademark combination of incisive playing and “irresistible exuberance” (Boston Globe). This quartet is “remarkable not simply for ...
New York sextet yMusic combines “all the prestige and virtuosity of classical music degrees with all the attitude and energy of an indie rock band” (Paste Magazine). They thrive comfortably ...
Artists-in-Residence Event: Rude Mechs • Evolution & Theater: Exploring the Science in the Rude Mechs’ Now Now Oh Now • Presented by Duke Performances, internationally celebrated Austin, Texas theater collective Rude Mechs make their Durham ...
Artists-in-Residence Event: The Bad Plus — Listening to Ornette Coleman with The Bad Plus — The evening prior to their world premiere performance at Duke Performances, The Bad Plus — ...
Artists-in-Residence Event: Calefax Reed Quintet — A Woodwind Master Class with Calefax Reed Quintet — The Calefax Reed Quintet, a unique reed ensemble from Amsterdam, has distinguished itself with its imaginative ...
Artists-in-Residence Events: Companhia Urbana de Dança — Companhia Urbana de Dança: Aesthetics & Activism in Brazilian Dance — Duke anthropologist and capoeira instructor Katya Wesolowski moderates a public discussion with Sonia Destri Lie, artistic director of Companhia ...
Artists-in-Residence Event: Horszowski Trio — A Master Class with the Horszowski Trio — A vital young New York ensemble, the Horszowski Trio was founded in 2011, whereupon the New Yorker declared it “destined ...
— A Conversation with Ronald K. Brown & Jason Moran — Duke professor and dance maker Thomas F. DeFrantz will moderate a conversation at the American Dance Festival’s Samuel H. Scripps Studios ...
Duke Performances has been informed by Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté’s management that they experienced unexpected personal and logistical difficulties as they set off from Bamako to start their US tour. These ...
Duke student tickets have sold out for Ben Folds with yMusic; ample regular price tickets remain available. ### Multi-platinum-selling Nashville singer-songwriter Ben Folds kicks off his 2015 global tour with yMusic at ...
The Ciompi share the season’s second concert with the Amernet String Quartet, an ensemble praised by the New York Times as “immensely satisfying.” The Amernet is Quartet in Residence at ...
In Conversation: Caroline Shaw with Will Robin North Carolina Symphony Scholar-in-Residence, Will Robin, also a doctoral candidate in musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill and a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New ...
Forty years in, Kronos Quartet still feels revolutionary. They have commissioned hundreds of new works for string quartet, recorded almost fifty albums, and brought the work of musicians from across ...
Artists-in-Residence Events: The Campbell Brothers & John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme • Sacred Steel: A Conversation & Demonstration with The Campbell Brothers • In town to perform at the Bull ...
Founded in 2007, this six-person company is already renowned for its dynamic, actor-focused style and lapidary productions of Shakespeare, whose elaborately plotted romance Cymbeline sings out with utter clarity in ...
Founded in 2007, this six-person company is already renowned for its dynamic, actor-focused style and lapidary productions of Shakespeare, whose elaborately plotted romance Cymbeline sings out with utter clarity in ...
Our 2011/2012 classical season begins with a scintillating collaboration between two of the most acclaimed ensembles in the nation. The Orion is prized for its command of the classical repertory ...
Founded by choreographer Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, the award-laden Australian dance company Chunky Move is famed for its beautiful, ambitious work with new media. Obarzanek’s final piece for the ensemble, ...
Hampson is an internationally-renowned opera lead and recitalist, artist in residence with the New York Philharmonic and one of the most respected soloists of his era. Born in Indiana and ...